CFTC cross-border rules slammed as ‘rushed’

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will take an outcomes-based approach to deciding whether foreign rules are equivalent to the US Dodd-Frank Act – a concession that could make it easier for non-US swap dealers and foreign branches of US banks to apply their home regulations. But lawyers say new cross-border rules are confusing, unclear and rushed – with one CFTC commissioner questioning how substituted compliance decisions will be made.

The CFTC voted on its final guidance on the

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