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

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is issuing an Order pursuant to Section 409(b)(3) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (``FDICIA''). Section 409 provides that the Commission (or one of several other authorized U.S. financial regulators) may determine that the supervision by a foreign financial regulator of a multilateral clearing organization for over- the-counter derivative instruments satisfies appropriate standards. The Commission is issuing this Order pursuant to Section 409(b)(3) of FDICIA with respect to the Alberta Securities Commission and its supervision of NetThruPut, Inc., a recognized clearing agency in Alberta, Canada.