NASDAQ OMX Commodities (“NASDAQ OMX”) has become aware that some of its US members and other participants have been reporting the freight and fuel oil futures and options contracts listed on NASDAQ OMX Oslo (“Exchange”), including those executed through the Exchange’s Block Trade Facility as swaps to swap data repositories (“SDRs”) registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) in accordance with the CFTC’s Part 45 Rules on swap data reporting. The freight and fuel oil futures and options listed on the Exchange, including those executed through the Block Trade Facility, are “foreign futures and options” as defined in Part 30 of the CFTC Regulations and are not “swaps” as defined in defined in Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”) and CFTC Rule 1.3. No freight or fuel oil futures and options contracts listed on the Exchange, including those executed through the Block Trade Facility, should be reported to a CFTC-registered SDR or to the CFTC.
Members and participants of the Exchange that are either financial counterparties or non-financial counterparties as defined in Article 2 of the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation are reminded of their affirmative obligation to report the freight and fuel oil futures and options listed on the Exchange executed either through the ETS or the Block Trade Facility as exchange-traded derivatives to a trade repository either authorised or recognised by the European Securities Market Authority.
For the avoidance of doubt, no member or participant of the Exchange should report any freight or fuel oil futures and options executed either through the ETS or the Block Trade Facility to a CFTC-registered SDR. The freight or fuel oil futures and options executed either through the ETS or the Block Trade Facility are foreign futures and options and are not swaps.
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NASDAQ OMX Clearing is the trade name of NASDAQ OMX Clearing AB which is authorized and supervised as a multi-asset clearinghouse by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority in Sweden as well as authorized to conduct clearing operation in Norway by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance.
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