Core Principles and Other
Requirements for Swap Execution Facilities
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
01/31/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
04/30/2022
5,160
5,160
7,740
8,940
0
0
Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act added new section 5h to
the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) to impose requirements concerning
the registration and operation of swap execution facilities (SEF),
which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) has
incorporated in Part 37 and other parts of its regulations. The
information required to be provided under Part 37 is necessary for
the Commission to evaluate whether SEFs, or entities applying to
become SEFs, comply with the CEA’s statutory core principle
requirements and related Commission regulations in Part 9,Part 36,
and Part 37 of the Commission regulations and demonstrate that they
meet the conditions required to be met in order to attain and/or
retain their registration.
The Final Rules address
operational issues facing SEFs and their market participants in
connection with the Commission’s regulatory requirements for a
SEF’s audit trail data, financial resources, and chief compliance
officer, as well as those areas that a number of SEFs and their
market participants found in practice to be operationally
unworkable or unnecessarily burdensome. Thus, in eliminating
certain information collection burdens for registered SEFs, the
Commission estimates on a net basis that the total burden hours
imposed on each SEF will be reduced from 447 hours to 387 hours,
and since there are 20 registered SEFs, the estimated total annual
burden results in 7,740 burden hours.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.