Clifford Chance
CFTC and SEC Joint Roundtable on Extraterritorial Scope of Swaps Regulation
4 August 2011
On Monday, August 1, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") and the Securities Exchange Commission ("SEC", and together with the CFTC, the "Commissions") jointly held a public roundtable discussion on international issues related to swaps regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act. The roundtable consisted of three sessions on the following topics: cross-border transactions; global entities; and market infrastructure. Each session was moderated by CFTC and/or SEC staff and the participants included market participants representing dealer firms, investors, public interest groups, clearinghouses and derivatives exchanges.
