Clear Markets gains approval from CFTC

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has provided its approval to Clear Markets, allowing it to operate as a Swap Execution Facility (SEF). The move comes after the CFTC noted that Clear Markets had demonstrated compliance with the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) while providing greater transparency within the swaps market.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ‎today announced that the Delaware-based Clear Markets North America, Inc. (Clear ‎Markets), has been approved to operate as a fully registered Swap Execution Execution Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Execution is the process during which a client submits an order to the brokerage, which consequently executes it resulting in an open position in a given asset. The execution of the order occurs only when it is filled. There is typically a time delay between the placement of the order and the execution which is called latency.In the retail FX space, reliable brokers always strive to deliver best execution to their clients in order to maintain a solid business relationship with them. This is a co Read this Term Facility ‎‎(SEF), according to an official CFTC statement.‎

Clear Markets, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clear Markets Holdings, Inc., ‎previously obtained temporary registration status on May 2014. As a next step, the commission undertook a substantive review of company’s application for full ‎registration. ‎

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The US watchdog has issued recently a series of orders granting registration to a large number of platforms to operate as Swap ‎Execution Facilities, better known as SEFs. However, much of ‎the trading volume in this realm is still concentrated among a few big players. The list includes ICAP, ‎BGC Partners, Tullett Prebon, CME Group, ICE and Bloomberg, with the latter capturing ‎nearly 50 per cent of plain vanilla swap trades last year.‎

According to the CFTC statement, Clear Markets has demonstrated compliance ‎with the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and the commission’s regulations ‎applicable to SEFs, which are required to comply with the core principles in ‎Section 5h of the CEA. Following the ‎new registration order, Clear Markets also shall comply with all representations and ‎submissions made by it in support of its application for registration as a Swap Execution Facility.‎

SEFs are trading entities that clear OTC products, such as OTC interest rate and credit ‎swaps under the CFTC’s regulatory oversight. The new facility emerged out from ‎the Dodd- Frank Act and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 which deemed NDFs as a ‎financial instrument requiring mandatory clearing, providing greater pre-trade and ‎post-trade transparency to the swaps market.‎