IATP / AFR Comment on Position Limits
The Institute on Agriculture and Trade Policy and Americans for Financial Reform submitted a joint comment on position limits for commodities to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Government Category: Comments & Letters to Regulators
AFR Comment Letter: On Forward Contracts With Embedded Volumetric Optionality
Download the letter here.
Joint Letter: FCC Should Maintain Consumer and Privacy Protections for Cell Phone Users
Don’t open the floodgates to a wave of “wrong number” calls to cell phones, say AFR, NCLC and more than 75 national and state groups in a letter urging the FCC to stand by the safeguards of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
Joint Letter: CFPB Moves Forward on Nonbank Auto Lending
“Supervision of nonbank auto financial institutions will bring much-needed attention to otherwise
lightly-regulated companies, will ensure compliance with consumer financial laws, and will
ensure that auto financing by banks, already subject to CFPB supervision, is not at a competitive
disadvantage.”
AFR Comment Letter: AFR calls on CFTC to Require Margin for Derivatives
AFR calls on CFTC to require margin for derivatives.
AFR Letter: Mandatory Margin Requirements Needed for Uncleared Swaps
“Mandatory margin requires participants in the swaps market to take full account of the risks of their derivatives transactions and provide some level of advance provisioning for such risks. The availability of properly segregated margin is clearly of enormous value in case of the default of a swaps counterparty.”