Regulatory sourcebook
Statutes and chronology for markets counsel
Research modules: Cite Jump · Library · Timeline · Stream · Federal Register · Agency Calendar · Surveys · Markets. Desk Tools, eleven drafting aids, follow below.
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Statute shelf · staff letters.
- Commodity Exchange ActCommodities and derivatives markets
- Securities Act of 1933Securities offerings and registration
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934Exchanges and secondary markets
- Investment Company ActInvestment companies and funds
- Investment Advisers ActInvestment advisers
- GENIUS ActPayment stablecoin framework
- CFTC Federal RegisterRules, proposals, notices, and orders — open the PDF; cite the FR page
CFTC Staff Letters · recent
- 09.22.26Staff Letter 26-27DMO advisory on novel prediction-market event contractscftc.gov
- 09.17.26Staff Letter 26-26Eurex Clearing — Clearstream Banking S.A. as central securities depositorycftc.gov
- 09.17.26Staff Letter 26-25Passive software provider IB/AP registration no-actioncftc.gov
- 09.02.26Staff Letter 26-24Reporting regs for exclusively self-cleared contracts with mixed participantscftc.gov
- 08.12.26Staff Letter 26-23DCM reminder — CEA and Part 40 regulatory obligationscftc.gov
- 07.24.26Staff Letter 26-22DCM reminder — proper procedures for self-certification submissionscftc.gov
- 07.24.26Staff Letter 26-21Kraken Derivatives Exchange — dormancy framework extensioncftc.gov
- 06.17.26Staff Letter 26-20Post-trade risk reduction providers — SEF registration and clearing/TER NALcftc.gov
- 06.12.26Staff Letter 26-19DCM conversion of perpetual-style digital commodity futurescftc.gov
- 06.03.26Staff Letter 26-18Cboe Digital Exchange — dormancy framework time-limited NALcftc.gov
- 05.29.26Staff Letter 26-17Deribit perpetuals as foreign futures; digital assets/stablecoins as margincftc.gov
- 05.29.26Staff Letter 26-16Staff expectations for DCMs, SEFs, and DCOs on novel listed productscftc.gov
- 05.19.26Staff Letter 26-15New Division of Enforcement Policy on Cooperationcftc.gov
- 05.13.26Staff Letter 26-14Parts 43/45 reporting NAL for certain binary and variable payout event contractscftc.gov
- 05.04.26Staff Letter 26-13Railbird / Bitnomial — event-contract Parts 38/39/43/45 reporting NALcftc.gov
CFTC staff letters · recent
Regulator · issuer · enforcement (last 31).
Topic · Jurisdiction
- Oct 212026OCCOCC Issues Final Rule Implementing the GENIUS Act for the Issuance of Stablecoins by Entities Subject to OCC Jurisdiction
- Oct 52026CFTCStaff Issues No-Action Relief for DCMs Converting Perpetual-Style Broad-Based Security Index Futures into True Perpetual Futures (Letter 26-29)
- Oct 52026CFTCAdvance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets
- Oct 52026FinCENWithdraws Proposed Section 311 Special Measure on International Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing and Proposed Rule on Unhosted Wallet Transactions
- Oct 12026SECProposes Rules Addressing Custody of Crypto Assets for Investment Advisers and Regulated Funds (Adviser and Regulated Fund Custody Rules; Crypto Custody Rules)
- Sep 302026TreasuryFederal Register Publishes Interim Final Rule on Forms and Procedures for Review of State Certifications by the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee
- Sep 292026FedFederal Register Publishes Notices of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for Board-Supervised Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Application Procedures for State Member Bank Subsidiaries
- Sep 292026SECCharges Cryptoaiml Ltd., Cryptoaiml Capital Foundation, TSAI Pro Ltd., and TSAI Capital Foundation in Investment Confidence Scams Involving Fake Online Trading Platforms and Crypto-Asset Transfers
- Sep 252026SECDivision of Corporation Finance Issues FAQs on Application of the Federal Securities Laws to Certain Types of Crypto Assets and Certain Transactions Involving Crypto Assets (Buybacks; Post-Functionality Development; Staking Receipt Tokens)
- Sep 242026FedFederal Reserve Board Issues Notices of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for Board-Supervised Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Application Procedures for State Member Bank Subsidiaries
- Sep 242026CFTCStaff Updates FAQs on Crypto Assets and Blockchain Technologies (Tokenized Customer-Fund Investments; Blockchain Recordkeeping)
- Sep 222026CFTCStaff Issues Advisory on Mention Markets Event Contracts (Letter 26-27)
- Sep 172026TreasuryOFAC Designates BitBank Iranian Digital Asset Exchange and Related Parties under Operation Economic Outcast (E.O. 13902)
- Sep 172026CFTCStaff Issues No-Action Position to Providers of Passive Software (Letter 26-25; Expands Letter 26-09)
- Sep 172026SECIssues Temporary, Conditional “Innovation Exemption” for Tokenized Securities Venues to Trade Tokenized NMS Stock (Request for Comment)
- Sep 152026CongressSenate Rejects Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025) (49–50)
- Sep 142026SECChair Atkins Remarks: Project Crypto, CLARITY Act, Regulation Crypto Assets, Transfer-Agent Modernization, and Crypto Custody
- Sep 92026TreasuryOFAC Designates Xinbi Guarantee as a Transnational Criminal Organization and Sanctions Related Digital-Currency Service Providers Supporting Cyber Scam Operations (~$24 Billion Marketplace Volume)
- Sep 82026Federal courtD.D.C.: Malone Lam Pleads Guilty to RICO Conspiracy in Cryptocurrency Social-Engineering Enterprise (Forfeiture Money Judgment ~$245 Million)
- Sep 32026FinCENFinCEN Publishes Alert and Financial Trend Analysis on Digital Asset Investment Scams Operated by Overseas Scam Centers (~$12.7 Billion in Suspected BSA-Reported Activity)
- Aug 212026SECSEC Proposes Regulation Crypto Assets: Tailored Offering Regime for Certain Investment Contracts Involving Crypto Assets
- Aug 182026TreasuryU.S. Department of the Treasury Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: GENIUS Act Regulations on Payment Stablecoin Issuance, Offer, and Sale
- Aug 82026CongressSenate Majority Leader files cloture motion on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025)
- Jun 242026OCCOCC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer AML/CFT and Sanctions Compliance Risk Management (in coordination with FinCEN and OFAC)
- Jun 222026FinCENFinCEN Issues Proposed Rule: Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer Customer Identification Program
- Jun 122026Federal courtSecond Circuit affirms Samuel Bankman-Fried’s fraud and conspiracy convictions and 25-year sentence in United States v. Bankman-Fried
- May 182026OtherNCUA Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Implementing the GENIUS Act for Payment Stablecoin Issuance by Entities Subject to NCUA Jurisdiction
- May 142026CongressSenate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs orders H.R. 3633 (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) reported favorably with an amendment in the nature of a substitute (15–9)
- Apr 102026FDICFDIC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: GENIUS Act Requirements and Standards for FDIC-Supervised Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers and Insured Depository Institutions
- Apr 102026FinCENFinCEN and OFAC Issue Joint Proposed Rule on Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer AML/CFT Program and Sanctions Compliance Program Requirements
- Apr 32026TreasuryU.S. Department of the Treasury Issues NPRM: GENIUS Act Broad-Based Principles for Determining Whether a State-Level Regulatory Regime Is Substantially Similar to the Federal Regulatory Framework
- Sep 162026CIRCLECircle Launches Arc Mainnet, an Economic Operating System for the Internet
- Jul 312026CIRCLECircle Granted Trust Charter by the New York Department of Financial Services
- Jul 302026COINBASECoinbase Q2 Earnings: Everything Exchange Drives 3rd Consecutive Quarter of Record Crypto Trading Volume Market Share, Revenue Diversification, and Resilience
- Jul 292026ROBINHOODRobinhood Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results
- Jul 212026STRIPERamp uses Stripe to power stablecoin payments and accounts
- May 142026CME GROUPCME Group to Launch Nasdaq CME Crypto Index Futures
- Mar 202025KRAKENKraken to Acquire NinjaTrader: Introducing the Next Era of Professional Trading
- Sep 152026CFTCSecures Court Order Directing Florida Man to Pay Over $6 Million for Options Fraud and Imposing Trading Bans
- Sep 92026CFTCSecures Court Orders Directing Texas and Florida Residents to Pay Over $500,000 in Disgorgement and Civil Monetary Penalties and Imposing Trading Bans for Commodity Pool Fraud
- Aug 282026CFTCOrders Gabriel Perez to Pay $172,000 for Insider Trading of Mention Market Event Contracts
- Aug 192026CFTCResolves Actions Against Former Alameda CEO, and Alameda and FTX Co-Founder
- Aug 112026CFTCCharges Goliath Ventures Inc. and CEO with $400 Million Fraud Scheme
- Aug 112026SECCharges Company and its CEO in Alleged $425 Million Ponzi Scheme
- Aug 32026SECFiles Proposed Settlement with Respect to Fraud and Market Manipulation Claims Against Gotbit Consulting LLC
- Jul 312026CFTCOrders George Santos to Pay $35,000 for Manipulative Trading of State-of-the-Union Event Contract
- Jul 202026SECCharges Individual and His Company in Alleged Multi-Million Dollar Crypto Asset Mining Investment Scheme
- Jul 72026CFTCCharges North Carolina Commodity Pool Operator and His Company with Fraud
- Jun 292026CFTCOrders Two Foreign Firms to Pay $2.5 Million for Illegal Off-Exchange Transactions with U.S. Customers
- Jun 292026SECObtains Final Judgment Against Four Entities and Two Individuals in Alleged Relationship Investment Scam
Recent desk notes from the RegStak Timeline — short, primary-sourced.
CFTC ANPRM on Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets (CEA 2(c)(2)(D)). Published in the Federal Register Oct 13, 2026 (91 FR 64811); comments due Dec 14, 2026.
FinCEN withdraws its 2023 section 311 CVC mixing proposal and its 2020 unhosted wallet reporting proposal (Oct 5). Effective on FR publication Oct 6, 2026 (91 FR 63513; 91 FR 63514).
Treasury interim final rule for the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee: forms and procedures for state certifications under GENIUS Act section 4(c) (91 FR 61688). Effective Sept 30, 2026; comments due Nov 30, 2026.
Federal Register publishes the Fed’s two GENIUS Act NPRMs (Sept 29): implementing (R-1899) + applications (R-1900). Comments due Nov 30.
Fed GENIUS Act NPRMs (bcreg20260924a): implementing (R-1899) + applications (R-1900).
OFAC BitBank / Operation Economic Outcast: Iranian digital asset exchange designations (E.O. 13902).
Senate rejects cloture on MTP to H.R. 3633 (CLARITY) 49–50; procedural, not final passage.
FinCEN publishes Alert + FTA on overseas scam-center digital asset investment scams (~$12.7B BSA).
CFTC FR releases — cite, open PDF, jump year by year.
No CFTC Federal Register documents in this harvest.
The Federal Register API document corpus begins on 1994-01-03. Years at or below that floor may show an honest empty catalog — no invented rows.
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09.25.26 PROPOSED 91 FR 55030 Swap Execution Facility Order Book Requirement for Permitted Transactions
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Desk Tools
Deterministic drafting aids for derivatives counsel. Client-side only. Not legal advice.
Is it a swap?
Drafting aid, not legal advice. Runs in your browser; nothing you enter leaves this page. Verify against the cited sources. Verified through 2026-09-29.
Swap, security-based swap, forward, or neither? Reasoning trail and what changes.
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End-user exception
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Eligible, ineligible, or needs facts. SDR election information and a file memo.
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Uncleared margin
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Schedule-based only. Check against your CSA and your counterparty's model. Many firms use an approved model (for example SIMM) rather than the schedule.
Schedule-based IM and VM, with the work shown. Check against your CSA and model.
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Reporting and clearing triage
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Rule-level triage only. It does not know your facts, other jurisdictions' regimes, staff no-action letters or exemptive relief. Items marked to be verified were not confirmed against a primary source.
Who reports, what clears, whether margin applies, and who owes each step. Verify against the cited rules.
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Cross-border swap checker
Drafting aid, not legal advice. Runs in your browser; nothing you enter leaves this page. Verify against the cited sources. Verified through 2026-09-29.
CFTC rules only, and only the cross-border provisions of 17 CFR 23.23 and 23.160. Not a U.S.-person determination for any entity. Check the facts, any comparability determination and your own representations.
Cross-border swap checker - U.S.-person status, de minimis counting, Group A/B/C and margin exposure, with cites.
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Collateral eligibility and haircuts
Drafting aid, not legal advice. Runs in your browser; nothing you enter leaves this page. Verify against the cited sources. Verified through 2026-09-29.
Standardized haircut schedule only. Eligibility under your CSA and custodian terms may be narrower. Concentration limits shown are your own policy input, not a rule.
Collateral and haircuts - Eligibility and post-haircut value under the standardized schedule.
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Swap dealer de minimis tracker
Drafting aid, not legal advice. Runs in your browser; nothing you enter leaves this page. Verify against the cited sources. Verified through 2026-09-29.
Arithmetic on the notional you enter. It does not decide what counts as dealing. Confirm each swap and each exclusion against 17 CFR 1.3 before relying on the result.
De minimis tracker - Rolling 12-month swap dealing notional against $8 billion and $25 million, with the registration clock.
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Position limits
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Federal limits only. Exchange limits and accountability levels can be lower. Does not decide whether a position is a bona fide hedge or how accounts aggregate.
Position limits - Federal spot-month and legacy non-spot limits for the 25 core referenced futures contracts, with a position-versus-limit check.
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CPO / CTA exemptions
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Candidate list, not a conclusion. Eligibility turns on facts and on the full text of each rule. Filings are made with NFA, not through this tool.
CPO / CTA exemptions. Which registration exemptions may fit, what to file and when, with a de minimis arithmetic check.
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Deadline calendar
Drafting aid, not legal advice. Runs in your browser; nothing you enter leaves this page. Verify against the cited sources. Verified through 2026-09-29.
Dates computed from the rule text and the holiday list you choose. "Business day" depends on location (45.1). Confirm against your SDR's cut-off and your own policies.
Deadline calendar. SDR, real-time, CPO/CTA and retention deadlines with business-day math and a holiday calendar.
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Notice effectiveness
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Computes from the rules you enter. Presets are illustrative and are not any standard form's wording. Check your agreement.
Notice effectiveness. Enter your own notice rules; get the effective date with convention, cut-off and time-zone handling.
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