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Industry pushes CFTC to prioritise cross-border clarity

Approaching Mifid II deadline adds urgency to Giancarlo’s overhaul of Sef rules

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The EU's Mifid II will introduce regulation for trading venues that are similar to the Sef rules in the US
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New European trading rules due to take effect in January 2018 add urgency to an overhaul of the cross-border aspects of US regulation by recently appointed Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Christopher Giancarlo, market participants say.

Giancarlo has been vocal in public speeches – and in his 2015 white paper on swap execution facility (Sef) rules – about the CFTC’s “flawed implementation” of Dodd-Frank Act swaps provisions.

“I believe his real focus between now and the end of the

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