Commodity Futures Trading Commission June 1, 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On June 3, 2011, commencing at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 5 p.m., staff of the CFTC will hold a public roundtable discussion at which invited participants will discuss certain issues related to the protection of cleared swaps customer collateral described in the CFTC's notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the Protection of Cleared Swaps Customer Contracts and Collateral and Conforming Amendments to the Commodity Broker Bankruptcy Provisions (the ``NPRM''), a copy of which may be found on the CFTC's Web site at https://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/ public/@newsroom/documents/file/federalregister042711b.pdf. This is a preliminary version of the proposed rule; the version that will publish in the Federal Register may not be identical to this preliminary version. The roundtable will include discussions of the issues surrounding the implementation of the complete legal segregation model proposed in the NPRM, the optional approach highlighted in the NPRM, with specific emphasis regarding the bankruptcy issues surrounding such approach, and the advantages and disadvantages of the models proposed in the NPRM.