ICI Innovate brings together multidisciplinary experts to explore how emerging technologies will impact fund operations and their implications for the broader industry.
ICI Innovate is participating in the Emerging Leaders initiative, offering a heavily discounted opportunity for the next generation of asset management professionals to participate in ICI’s programming.
The Registered Fund CPO Advisory Committee focuses on the legal, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting investment advisers that are registered as commodity pool operators or commodity trading advisors for one or more registered investment companies. It considers issues relating to the CPO exclusion for advisers to registered investment companies in CFTC Rule 4.5. It provides a forum for members to discuss particular policy objectives.
On December 17, 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved a final rule amending CFTC Regulation 1.25, which provides for the safeguarding and investment of customer funds by futures commission merchants and derivatives clearing organizations.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Divisions of Clearing and Risk, Data, Market Oversight and Market Participants issued a staff advisory on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in CFTC-regulated markets by registered entities and registrants.
On September 18, 2024, the CFTC adopted a final rule that amends CFTC Regulation 4.7, a provision that provides exemptions from certain compliance requirements for commodity pool operators with respect commodity pool offerings to qualified eligible persons and for commodity trading...
On May 20, 2024, the National Futures Association (NFA) issued a Notice to Members, Notice I-24-10, declaring the effective date of the recently adopted NFA Compliance Rule 2-52, related Interpretive Notice 9082, and amended Bylaw 301 to be October 15, 2024.
On February 12, 2024, the National Futures Association (NFA) issued a Notice to Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) and Commodity Trading Adviser (CTA) Members providing an update on educational resources, common exam deficiencies, and links to recent amendments to NFA Rules and...
On January 17, 2024, Investment Company Institute (ICI) submitted comments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding its proposed amendments to Regulation 1.25 under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), which specifies permitted investments ("Permitted Investments") by...
On December 11, 2023, Investment Company Institute (ICI) submitted comments to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding its proposed amendments to Regulation 4.7 (the "Proposal"). While the Proposal contained several proposed amendments that would affect commodity...
On October 2, 2023, the CFTC published a proposed rule ("Proposal") that would significantly revise CFTC Regulation 4.7, a provision that provides exemptions from certain compliance requirements for commodity pool operators (CPOs) with respect to commodity pool offerings to qualified...
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Fall 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions on January 4, 2023. The agenda includes regulatory actions that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission expect to take...
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