Commodity Futures Trading Commission June 27, 2012 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') is issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to add certain provisions to part 43 of the Commission's regulations pertaining to block trades in swap contracts. The provisions would: (i) Prohibit the aggregation of orders for different trading accounts in order to satisfy the minimum block size or cap size requirements, except for orders aggregated by certain commodity trading advisors (``CTAs''), investment advisers and foreign persons (as described in this release), if such person has more than $25,000,000 in total assets under management (``AUM''); (ii) provide that parties to a block trade must individually qualify as eligible contract participants (``ECPs''), except where a designated contract market allows certain CTAs, investment advisers and foreign persons (as described in this release), to transact block trades for customers who are not ECPs, if such CTA, investment adviser or foreign person has more than $25,000,000 in total AUM; and (iii) require that persons transacting block trades on behalf of customers must receive prior written instruction or consent from the customer to do so.