Commodity Futures Trading Commission July 3, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is adopting new and amended market and large trader reporting rules. The final rules accomplish the following: Codify a reporting level for contracts based on 3-Year U.S. Treasury Notes; clarify the reporting obligations of registered derivatives transaction execution facilities and their market participants; require designated contract markets to publicly disseminate integrated volume data for each contract that separately identifies the volume generated from block trades; establish a reporting framework for exclusively self-cleared contracts; and implement a number of conforming, clarifying, and technical amendments.