US Reg Round Up: 17/07/2023

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Federal Reserve

Agencies finalize policy statement on commercial real estate loan accommodations and workouts

29 June 2023

Federal financial institution regulatory agencies today jointly issued a final policy statement on commercial real estate loan accommodations and workouts.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission


SEC Proposes Rule Amendments to the Broker-Dealer Customer Protection Rule

12 July 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to Rule 15c3-3 (the Customer Protection Rule) to require certain broker-dealers to increase the frequency with which they perform computations of the net cash they owe to customers and other broker-dealers (known as PAB account holders) from weekly to daily. Net cash owed to customers and PAB account holders must be held in a special reserve bank account.

SEC Adopts Money Market Fund Reforms and Amendments to Form PF Reporting Requirements for Large Liquidity Fund Advisers

12 July 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted amendments to certain rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

CFTC Announces Trade Execution Requirement for Certain SOFR and SONIA OIS

07 July 2023

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the approval of a made-available-to-trade (MAT) determination submitted by TW SEF LLC for certain U.S. Dollar (USD) Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) overnight index swaps (OIS) and Pound Sterling (GBP) Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) OIS.

U.S. Department of the Treasury

Treasury Releases Assessment of Small Insurer Competitiveness in the Terrorism Risk Insurance Marketplace

30 June 2023

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has released its 2023 “Study of Small Insurer Competitiveness in the Terrorism Risk Insurance Marketplace.” In addition to providing updates on the role of small insurers in the terrorism insurance marketplace, the Report identifies new insights available from FIO’s expanded cyber insurance data collection, and shares analysis based upon the use of terrorism risk modeling to evaluate potential impacts small insurers under the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP).