Title: Financial and Non-Financial End User Issues under Dodd-Frank
Description: Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act creates a framework for regulation concerning the OTC derivatives market. This panel will review topical issues for both financial and non-financial end-users, including the following:
- Product characterization issues (swaps vs forwards) and anti-evasion
- Managing the end-user exception process
- End user perspective on margin for uncleared swaps
- End-user perspective on swap execution facilities, clearing arrangements, and netting
- Cross-border concerns
- Current commodity pool operator (CPO) and commodity trading advisor (CTA) issues
Panelists: Gary Barnett, US Commodity Futures Trade Commission, Washington, DC; Warren N. Davis, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Washington, DC; Athena Velie Eastwood, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, Washington, DC; Jennifer Wu Han, Managed Funds Association, Washington, DC; Lauren Teigland-Hunt, Teigland-Hunt LLP, New York, NY; Jeffrey L. Steiner, Gibson Dunn, Washington, DC
Date: March 19, 2014
Presented by: Derivatives and Futures Law Committee
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