iOn April 8, the Market Participants Division (MPD), Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR), Division of Data (DOD) and Division of Market Oversight (DMO) of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission jointly issued no-action relief, effective immediately, to maintain the regulatory status quo for swap dealers (SD) following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. The no-action letter provides relief to SDs from certain transaction-level requirements for certain swaps between their foreign branches and non-US persons. MPD also provided no-action relief to SDs from the comparability determination requirement by allowing them to utilize existing relief provided in CFTC Staff Letter No. 20-39.
