Exhibit C

360 TRADING NETWORKS INC.

RULEBOOK

OCTOBER 15,DECEMBER 10, 2015
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1. DEFINITIONS ........................................................................................................ 1

Rule 101. General.................................................................................................................1

Rule 102. Rules of Construction ........................................................................................98

CHAPTER 2. GOVERNANCE.................................................................................................. 109

Rule 201. Board................................................................................................................109

Rule 202. Officers ..........................................................................................................1110

Rule 203. Qualifications of Directors, Officers, Committee Members, Disciplinary 

Panel Members, Review Panel Members and Appeal Panel Members ........1110

Rule 204. Standing Committees.....................................................................................1211

Rule 205. Additional Committees..................................................................................1312

Rule 206. Conflicts of Interest........................................................................................1312

Rule 207. Maintenance of Books and Records by the Company...................................1514

CHAPTER 3. TRADING SYSTEM......................................................................................... 1615

Rule 301. Access to the Trading System........................................................................1615

Rule 302. Participant Eligibility Requirements..............................................................1615

Rule 303. Participant Application Procedure .................................................................1716

Rule 304. Authorized Traders ........................................................................................1817

Rule 305. Authorized Users ...........................................................................................1918

Rule 306. Independent Software Vendors......................................................................2119

Rule 307. Limitations on Access to the Trading System ...............................................2119

Rule 308. Notices and Other Communications..............................................................2120

Rule 309. Designated Representatives...........................................................................2120

Rule 310. Application of Rules; Jurisdiction of the Company.......................................2220

Rule 311. Withdrawal of Participant..............................................................................2221

Rule 312. Dues and Fees................................................................................................2321

Rule 313. Business Days and Trading Hours.................................................................2321

CHAPTER 4. BUSINESS CONDUCT.................................................................................... 2422

Rule 401. Duties and Responsibilities of Participants and Authorized Traders.............2422

Rule 402. Required Notices............................................................................................2523

Rule 403. Inspections by the Company..........................................................................2624

Rule 404. Financial and Related Reporting Requirements ............................................2624

Rule 405. Restrictions on Activity .................................................................................2624

Rule 406. Customers ......................................................................................................2624

Rule 407. Publication of Trade Information...................................................................2725

Rule 408. Disaster Recovery; Business Continuity........................................................2725

Rule 409. Anti-Money Laundering Organization ..........................................................2725

CHAPTER 5. TRADING PRACTICES................................................................................... 2927

Rule 501. Scope..............................................................................................................2927

Rule 502. Rule Violations..............................................................................................2927

Rule 503. Just and Equitable Principles of Trade; Acts Detrimental.............................2927
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Rule 504. Fraudulent Acts and Abusive Trading Practices Prohibited.........................2927

Rule 505. Fictitious or Noncompetitive Transactions Prohibited ..................................2927

Rule 506. Market Disruption Prohibited ........................................................................2927

Rule 507. Market Manipulation Prohibited....................................................................3028

Rule 508. Disruptive Trading Practices Prohibited........................................................3028

Rule 509. Prohibition of Misstatements.........................................................................3028

Rule 510. Misuse of the Trading System .......................................................................3028

Rule 511. Financial or Other Incentive Programs..........................................................3028

Rule 512. Withholding of Customer Orders Prohibited; Priority of Customer Orders..3028

Rule 513. Handling of Customer Orders........................................................................3129

Rule 514. Disclosing Orders and Requests for Quotes Prohibited.................................3129

Rule 515. Simultaneous Buy and Sell Orders for Different Beneficial Owners............3129

Rule 516. Wash Sales Prohibited ...................................................................................3230

Rule 517. “Moneypassing,” Pre-arranged, Pre-Negotiated and Noncompetitive 

Transactions Prohibited.................................................................................3230

Rule 518. Responsibility for Customer Orders ..............................................................3331

Rule 519. Discretionary Customer Orders .....................................................................3331

Rule 520. Recordkeeping; Audit Trail ...........................................................................3331

Rule 521. Position Limits; Exemptions..........................................................................3532

Rule 522. Position Accountability..................................................................................3634

Rule 523. Aggregation of Positions................................................................................3734

Rule 524. Operation of the Trading System...................................................................3734

Rule 525. Confirmation of Transactions........................................................................3835

Rule 526. Trade Cancellations and Price Adjustments..................................................3836

Rule 527. Limitation of Liability: No Warranties..........................................................4138

Rule 528. Swap Data Reporting .....................................................................................4341

Rule 529. Updating Reportable Swap Data....................................................................4442

CHAPTER 6. BLOCK TRADES ............................................................................................. 4643

Rule 601. Block Trades..................................................................................................4643

Rule 602. Time-Stamp Requirements for Block Trades....................................................46

CHAPTER 7. DISCIPLINARY RULES.................................................................................. 4744

Rule 701. General...........................................................................................................4744

Rule 702. Inquiries and Investigation.............................................................................4946

Rule 703. Reports of Investigations ...............................................................................5047

Rule 704. Opportunity to Respond.................................................................................5047

Rule 705. Review of Investigation Reports....................................................................5148

Rule 706. Notice of Charges ..........................................................................................5148

Rule 707. Service of Notice............................................................................................5249

Rule 708. Answer to Notice of Charges.........................................................................5249

Rule 709. Settlements.....................................................................................................5350

Rule 710. Review Panel; Disciplinary Panel..................................................................5451

Rule 711. Respondent’s Review of Evidence ................................................................5552

Rule 712. Hearings.........................................................................................................5653

Rule 713. Decision of Disciplinary Panel ......................................................................5754

Rule 714. Sanctions........................................................................................................5855
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Rule 715. Appeal From Disciplinary Panel Decisions and Summary Actions (Other 

Than Summary Impositions of Fines)...........................................................5956

Rule 716. Summary Imposition of Fines........................................................................6158

Rule 717. Summary Suspensions and Other Summary Actions....................................6259

Rule 718. Rights and Responsibilities After Suspension or Termination......................6360

Rule 719. Notice of Disciplinary Proceedings...............................................................6361

Rule 720. Regulatory Services Provider ........................................................................6361

CHAPTER 8. ARBITRATION RULES .................................................................................. 6562

Rule 801. General...........................................................................................................6562

Rule 802. Forum and Arbitration Rules.........................................................................6562

Rule 803. Initiating an Arbitration Claim.......................................................................6562

Rule 804. Claims Relating to Trade Cancellations or Price Adjustments......................6562

Rule 805. Penalties.........................................................................................................6562

CHAPTER 9. MISCELLANEOUS.......................................................................................... 6764

Rule 901. Legal Certainty...............................................................................................6764

Rule 902. Trading by Company Officials Prohibited; Misuse of Material, Non-Public 

Information....................................................................................................6764

Rule 903. Proprietary Information; Use of Market Data................................................6865

Rule 904. Confidentiality ...............................................................................................6966

Rule 905. Recording of Communications......................................................................7067

Rule 906. Information-Sharing Agreements ..................................................................7067

Rule 907. Force Majeure ................................................................................................7168

Rule 908. Extension or Waiver of Rules........................................................................7168

Rule 909. Effect of Amendment, Repeal or New Rule ..................................................7168

Rule 910. Signatures.......................................................................................................7269

Rule 911. Governing Law; Legal Proceedings...............................................................7269

Rule 912. Emergencies...................................................................................................7269

CHAPTER 10. CLEARING..................................................................................................... 7471

Rule 1001. Cleared Swaps................................................................................................7471

Rule 1002. Clearing Firm Requirements..............................................................................74

Rule 1003. Submission of Swaps to Derivatives Clearing Organization.............................74

Rule 1004. Clearing Firm Guarantee....................................................................................75

Rule 1005. Responsibility of Participants............................................................................75

Rule 1006. Liquidation of Positions by Clearing Firms.......................................................75

Rule 1007. Rules of the Derivatives Clearing Organization ................................................75

APPENDIX 1: PRODUCT TERMS AND CONDITIONS...................................................... 7572

Explanation and Analysis of Available Swaps.................................................................7572

Contract Specifications.....................................................................................................7672

Swaps Available ...................................................................................................................77
CHAPTER 1. DEFINITIONS

Rule 101. General

Unless the context otherwise requires, the terms defined in this Rule have the meanings 

specified below for all purposes under the Rules:

“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any Person who, directly or indirectly, 

Controls, is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such other Person.

“Appeal Panel” means the panel appointed in accordance with Rule 715 to consider an 

appeal from an order of a Disciplinary Panel pursuant to Rule 713 or a notice of summary action 

imposed pursuant to Rule 717 and to affirm, modify or reverse all or any portion of such order or 

notice.

“Appeal Panel Member” means an individual who is appointed to, and serves as, a member 

of an Appeal Panel.

“Applicable Law” means, with respect to any Person, any statute, or any rule, regulation, or 

ordinance of any Government Agency, Derivatives Clearing Organization or Self-Regulatory 

Organization, in any case applicable to such Person.

“Audit Trail” has the meaning given that term in Rule 520(b).

“Authorized Trader” means a Person (not an individual) who is authorized by a Participant 

to access the Trading System pursuant to Rule 304.

“Authorized User” means an individual who is employed by or is an agent of a Participant, 

an Authorized Trader or a Clearing Firm and who has been authorized to access the Trading 

System pursuant to Rule 305. When used in reference to a Participant, “Authorized User” means 

and includes (i) such Participant’s Authorized Users and (ii) employees and agents of the 

Participant’s Authorized Traders who have been designated by the Authorized Trader as 

Authorized Users.

“Block trade” means a publicly reportable swap transaction that:

(1) Involves a swap that is listed on a registered Swap Execution Facility;

(2) Occurs away from the Company’s trading system and is executed 

pursuant to Chapter 6 of the Rules;

(3) Has a notional or principal amount at or above the appropriate minimum block 

size applicable to such swap; and

(4) Is reported subject to the Rules, including the appropriate time delay 

requirements set forth in Section 43.5 of CFTC Regulation.

“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
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“Breakage Agreement” means any arrangement that provides for the assessment of 

liability or payment of damages between the parties to a cleared Swap in the event such Swap is 

rejected from clearing.

“Business Day” means a day on which the Company is open for trading.

“CEA” means the Commodity Exchange Act.

“CFTC” means the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

“CFTC Regulations” means the rules, regulations and orders promulgated by the CFTC.

“Chairman” means the chairman of the Board.

“Chief Compliance Officer” means the individual appointed by the Board as the 

Company’s chief compliance officer. 

“Chief Executive Officer” means the individual appointed by the Board as the Company’s 

chief executive officer.

“Cleared Swap” means a Swap that is required to be cleared pursuant to Section 2(h)(2)(D) 

of the CEA and CFTC Regulation 39.5, but does not include a Swap that one or both parties elects 

not to clear under (i) the end-user exception provided by Section 2(h)(7)(A) of the CEA and CFTC 

Regulation 50.50 or (ii) the inter-affiliate exemption provided by CFTC Regulation 50.52. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Cleared Swap” includes any Swap that is submitted for clearing 

to a Derivatives Clearing Organization by or on behalf of the parties to the Swap even though such 

Swap is not required to be cleared. 

“Clearing Firm” means a Person, whether or not a Participant, that has been approved as a 

member or participant in one or more Derivatives Clearing Organizations and that is authorized 

pursuant to the rules of such a Derivatives Clearing Organization to clear Swaps for customers.

“Committee” means a committee established by the Board.

“Company” means 360 Trading Networks Inc., or any successor thereto.

“Company Official” means any Director or Officer of, or individual employed directly by, 

the Company, or any individual rendering similar services to the Company under an administrative 

or similar agreement.

“Company Proceeding” means any Disciplinary Proceeding, appeal from a Disciplinary 

Proceeding, summary suspension, or other summary action taken pursuant to Rule 716 or Rule 

717.

“Company Requirements” means (i) the Rules, (ii) other requirements implemented by the 

Company under the Rules, (iii) each term of a Swap, and (iv) the Participant Documentation and 

other contractual obligations between a Participant (including its Authorized Traders and 

Authorized Users) and the Company.
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“Control” means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the 

direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting 

securities, by contract, or otherwise. The terms “Controlling” or “Controlled” shall have meanings 

correlative to the foregoing.

“Covered Person” has the meaning given that term in Rule 902(b).

“CTI” has the meaning given that term in Rule 520(c).

“Customer” means an Eligible Contract Participant that has authorized a Participant or 

Authorized Trader to cause transactions in Swaps to be made for its account on the Trading 

System.

“Customer Order” means, with respect to a Participant or Authorized Trader, an Order or 

Request for Quote that has been provided to such Participant or Authorized Trader, as applicable, 

by or on behalf of a Customer. 

“Derivatives Clearing Organization” has the meaning given that term in section 1a(9) of 

the CEA and, as used in these Rules, means a Derivatives Clearing Organization that is registered 

or exempt from registration as such with the CFTC and that is engaged in the clearing of one or 

more Swaps.

“Designated Representative” means an individual, designated by a Participant or an 

Authorized Trader pursuant to Rule 310, with authority to act on behalf of such Participant or 

Authorized Trader, as applicable. 

“Director” means any member of the Board.

“Disciplinary Panel” means the panel appointed pursuant to Rule 710 to conduct hearings 

in connection with Disciplinary Proceedings (other than summary impositions of fines pursuant to 

Rule 716), to make findings, render decisions, and impose sanctions pursuant to Chapter 7 of the 

Rules.

“Disciplinary Panel Member” means an individual who is appointed to, and serves as, a 

member of a Disciplinary Panel.

“Disciplinary Proceeding” means any inquiry, investigation, disciplinary proceeding, 

summary imposition of fines, summary suspension or other summary action conducted pursuant to 

Chapter 7 of the Rules.

“Eligible Contract Participant” has the meaning given that term in section 1a(18) of the 

CEA and CFTC Regulations.

“Emergency” means any occurrences or circumstance which, in the opinion of the Board, 

the Chairman or the Chief Executive Officer, requires immediate action, and which threatens, or 

may threaten, the fair and orderly trading in, or the settlement or integrity of, any Swap, including 

the following:
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(1) any circumstance that may materially affect the performance of a Swap, 

including failure of the clearing system of a Derivatives Clearing Organization;

(2) any action taken by any United States or foreign regulatory, self-regulatory, 

judicial, arbitral, or governmental (whether national, state or municipal) or 

quasi-governmental authority, any agency, department, instrumentality, or sub-division 

thereof; or other Person exercising, or entitled to exercise any administrative, executive, 

judicial, legislative, police, regulatory or taxing authority or power; any Derivatives 

Clearing Organization, board of trade or other exchange (foreign or domestic) that, in 

any such case, may have a direct and adverse impact on trading on the Trading System or 

the settlement, legality or enforceability of any Swap;

(3) any actual, attempted or threatened corner, squeeze, congestion, 

manipulative activity or undue concentration of positions in a Swap;

(4) any circumstance that may have a severe, adverse effect upon the functions 

and facilities of the Company, including acts of God, fire, flood or other natural disasters, 

bomb threats, acts of terrorism or war, severely inclement weather, or failure or 

malfunction of all or a portion of the Trading System, or other system breakdowns or 

interruptions such as power, computer, communication or transportation systems or the 

Internet; or

(5) the Insolvency of any Clearing Firm or the imposition of any injunction or 

other restraint by any Government Agency, Derivatives Clearing Organization, court or 

arbitrator upon a Clearing Firm which may affect the ability of a Clearing Firm to trade in 

or perform its obligations on a Swap; or

(5) (6) any circumstance in which it appears that: (i) a Person has failed to 

perform on a Swap; (ii) a Participant or Authorized Trader is Insolvent or is in a financial 

or operational condition or is conducting business such that the Participant or Authorized 

Trader cannot be permitted to continue in business without jeopardizing the safety or 

integrity of other Participants, Authorized Traders or the Company; or (iii) any other 

unusual, unforeseeable or adverse circumstance as determined by the Company.

“Governing Documents” means the Company’s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, as 

amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

“Government Agency” means the CFTC and any other governmental agency or 

department that regulates the activities of the Company, a Participant, an Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User, as applicable.

“Independent Software Vendor” or “ISV” means a Person that makes available to 

Participants and Authorized Traders a system or platform offering smart order routing, front-end 

trading applications, an aggregation platform or a combination of the foregoing but that does not 

provide Participants or Authorized Traders with the ability to effect transactions other than 

through the Trading System. 
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“Insolvent” and “Insolvency” means the occurrence of any of the following events with 

respect to a Person:

(1) the Person is determined to be insolvent by a Government Agency or 

Self-Regulatory Organization;

(2) if the Person is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, 

a court of competent jurisdiction finds that the Person meets any one of the conditions set 

forth in clauses (A), (B), (C) or (D) of Section 5(b)(1) of the Securities Investor 

Protection Act of 1970;

(3) in the event of the entry or the making of a decree or order by a court, 

Government Agency or other supervisory authority of competent jurisdiction (i) 

adjudging the Person as bankrupt or insolvent; (ii) approving as properly filed a petition 

seeking reorganization, arrangement, liquidation, dissolution, adjustment or composition 

of or in respect of the Person under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal, 

state or other U.S. or non-U.S. law, including any bankruptcy, insolvency, 

reorganization, liquidation, dissolution or similar law; (iii) appointing a receiver, 

custodian, liquidator, provisional liquidator, administrator, provisional administrator, 

assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official for the Person or for any 

substantial part of its property; (iv) ordering the winding up or liquidation of the Person’s 

affairs; or (v) consenting to the institution by the Person of proceedings to be adjudicated 

as a bankrupt or insolvent; or

(4) the filing by the Person of a petition, or any case or proceeding, seeking 

reorganization or relief under the Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable federal, state 

or other U.S. or non-U.S. law, including any bankruptcy, Insolvency, reorganization, 

liquidation, dissolution or similar law, or the consent by the Person to the filing of any 

such petition, case or proceeding or to the appointment of a receiver, custodian, 

liquidator, provisional liquidator, administrator, provisional administrator, assignee, 

trustee, sequestrator or other similar official for the Person or for any substantial part of 

its property, or the making by the Person of an assignment for the benefit of its creditors, 

or the admission by the Person in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they 

become due, or the taking of corporate or similar action by the Person in furtherance of

the foregoing.

“Interested Person” has the meaning given that term in Rule 206(a).

“Investigation Report” has the meaning given that term in Rule 703.

“Loss” means any losses, damages, costs or expenses (including attorneys’ fees) whether 

direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or otherwise of any kind, including any 

loss of revenue, loss of actual or anticipated profits, loss of contracts, loss of the use of money, loss 

of anticipated savings, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of goodwill, loss of reputation or 

loss of, damage to or corruption of data.

“Market Data” means:
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(1) all data and other information submitted for entry into the Trading System 

or relating in any way to a Swap, including the time at which such data or information 

was submitted to or generated by the Trading System;

(2) any data or other information contained in, derived from or related to any of 

the foregoing, including the format, compilation and presentation thereof; and

(3) any data or information transmitted, published or disseminated by the 

Company to Participants, Authorized Traders, Authorized Users or any publisher of such 

data or information with whom the Company has a written agreement relating thereto.

“Market Regulation Department” means all Company Officials and agents of the Company 

(including the Regulatory Services Provider) that assist the Company in the implementation, 

surveillance and enforcement of the Rules and other Company Requirements.

“NFA” means the National Futures Association.

“No-Bust Range” has the meaning given in Rule 526(h). 

“Nominating Committee” means the Committee of the Board constituted pursuant to Rule 

204.

“Officer” has the meaning given that term in Rule 202.

“Order” means either a bid or an offer for a Swap on the Trading System (including bids 

and offers submitted in response to an Auction), and includes any modification to or cancellation 

of such a bid or offer, but does not include a Request for Quote or a response thereto.

“Package Transaction” means a transaction involving two or more instruments: (i) that is 

executed between two or more counterparties; (ii) that is priced or quoted as one economic 

transaction with simultaneous or near simultaneous execution of all components; and (iii) that has 

at where the execution of each component is contingent upon the execution of all other 

components.

“Participant” means a Person that has been authorized by the Company to have access to 

the Trading System pursuant to Rule 303 and to permit Authorized Traders and Authorized Users 

to have access to the Trading System pursuant to Rule 304 and Rule 305.

“Participant Committee” means the committee of the Board constituted pursuant to Rule 

204.

“Participant Documentation” means the agreements (together with any applicable 

schedules, exhibits or appendices thereto) that are required to be executed and delivered to the 

Company before a Person may have access to the Trading System.

“Permitted Transaction” means a transaction involving a Swap that is not subject to the 

trade execution requirements set forth in Section 2(h)(8) of the CEA.
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“Person” means an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, 

association, firm, trust, corporation or other entity, as the context may require.

“Prime Broker” means a Participant that provides prime brokerage services for Swaps and 

that has authorized an Authorized Trader to access the Trading System on its behalf in connection 

with Prime Broker Transactions.

“Prime Broker Transaction” means a transaction in an uncleared Swap where one 

counterparty is a Prime Broker and the other counterparty is a Participant whom the Prime Broker 

has authorized to act as such in connection with such transaction.

“Proprietary Information” has the meaning given that term in Rule 903.

“Public Director” means an individual having the qualifications set forth in Rule 201(d).

“Public Member” has the meaning given that term in Rule 710(b).

“Regulatory Oversight Committee” means the committee of the Board constituted 

pursuant to Rule 204.

“Regulatory Services Provider” means the NFA and such other organizations, if any, that 

provide regulatory services to the Company, in each case, together with those certain employees 

and agents of any such organization that provide regulatory services to the Company.

“Reportable Swap Data” means the data required to be reported under Parts 43 and 45 of 

CFTC Regulations.

“Reporting Counterparty” means, for purposes of Part 45 of CFTC Regulations, the 

Participant or Authorized Trader that is designated as such pursuant to Rule 528(b).

“Request for Quote” and “RFQ” have the meaning given those terms in Rule 524(c)and, 

unless the context otherwise requires, include both requests for quotes pursuant to Rule 524(c) and 

responses to any such requests. 

“Required Transaction” means any transaction involving a Swap that is subject to the trade 

execution mandate under section 2(h)(8) of the CEA.

“Review Panel” means the panel, if any, appointed pursuant to Rule 710 to review a 

completed Investigation Report and to determine whether a reasonable basis exists for finding a 

violation of the Rules and authorizing the issuance of a notice of charge pursuant to Rule 706.

“Review Panel Member” means an individual who is appointed to, and serves as, a 

member of a Review Panel.

“Risk-Based Limits” means, as applicable, limits that may be established by a Derivatives 

Clearing Organization or Clearing Firm with respect to Cleared Swaps, based on credit, position or 

order size, margin requirements or similar factors.
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“Rule” or “Rules” means these Rules. 

“Self-Regulatory Organization” has the meaning given that term in CFTC Regulation 

1.3(ee) and in section 3(a)(26) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

“Summary Proceeding” means a Disciplinary Proceeding conducted pursuant to Rule 717 

or Rule 718.

“Swap” has the meaning given that term in section 1a(47) of the CEA and the rules and 

regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Swap Data Repository” has the meaning given that term in section 1a(48) of the CEA and, 

as used in these Rules, means a swap data repository that is registered or exempt from registration 

as such with the CFTC.

“Termination Event” means, as to a Participant, the occurrence of any of the following:

(1) the expiration or termination of any of the clearing agreements between the 

Participant and each of its Clearing Firms;

(1) (2) a representation or warranty made by the Participant to the Company 

under or in connection with any agreement between the Company and the Participant 

shall be false or misleading in any material respect as of the date on which made or 

repeated;

(2) (3) the Participant does not meet the requirements set forth in Rule 302; or

(3) (4) the breach by the Participant or any of its Authorized Traders or 

Authorized Users of the Rules, the Company Requirements, or any of the terms or 

provisions of any agreement between the Company and the Participant.

“Trading Hours” means, for any Business Day, the hours during which the Trading System 

is scheduled to operate.

“Trading Privileges” means the right, granted to a Participant, Authorized Trader or an 

Authorized User to transmit Orders and originate and/or respond to Requests for Quotes through 

the Trading System. 

“Trading System” means the Company’s electronic trade execution system that is used for 

the trading of Swaps, including the associated hardware, software, systems and communications 

links.

“User ID” means the unique identifier that is assigned by the Company to each Authorized 

User and to each automated trading system employed by a Participant or Authorized Trader and, in 

the case of such an automated trading system, linked to the User ID that is assigned to a single 

Authorized User. 
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Rule 102. Rules of Construction

In the Rules, unless the context otherwise requires: (i) headings are for convenience only 

and do not affect the construction of the Rules; (ii) words in the singular include the plural and 

words in the plural include the singular; (iii) references to the Rules and to a particular Rule are to 

the Rules and such Rule as they may be amended, amended and restated or otherwise modified 

from time to time; (iv) references to statutory provisions include those provisions, and any rules or 

regulations promulgated thereunder, as they may be amended, amended and restated or otherwise 

modified from time to time; (v) any reference to a time means the time in New York City; and (vi) 

all uses of the word “including” are to be construed to mean “including, but not limited to.”
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CHAPTER 2. GOVERNANCE

Rule 201. Board

(a) The Board shall have overall responsibility for the business and affairs of the 

Company. The Board has the power and authority to call for the review of, and to affirm, modify, 

suspend or overrule, any and all decisions and actions of any Committee or Officer of the 

Company.

(b) The Board may act by the decision of a majority of the Directors present and voting 

at a meeting, by unanimous written consent without a meeting, or as otherwise set forth in the 

Governing Documents.

(c) The CompanyBoard’s membership shall fairly represent the diversity of interests at 

the Company (including the interests of banks, futures commission merchants, corporate treasury 

departments, institutional traders and asset managers that trade on the Trading System, as 

appropriate), and the Board shall have the number or percentage of Public Directors required under 

any relevant CFTC governance rules not later than the applicable compliance date of such rules. 

Each Director (including Public Directors) shall be appointed in accordance with the Governing 

Documents, and shall serve until his or her successor is duly appointed, or until his or her earlier 

resignation or removal, with or without cause. 

(d) To qualify as a Public Director, an individual must be found, by action of the 

Board, to have no material relationship with the Company. The Board shall make such finding 

upon the nomination or appointment of the Public Director and as often as necessary in light of all 

circumstances relevant to such Public Director, but in no case less frequently than annually. For 

these purposes, a “material relationship” is one that could reasonably be expected to affect the 

independent judgment or decision-making of the Director. A Director shall be deemed to have a 

“material relationship” with the Company if any of the following circumstances exist or have 

existed within the past year:

(1) such Director is or was an Officer or an employee of the Company, or a 

director, officer or employee of an Affiliate of the Company;

(2) such Director is or was a Participant, or a director, officer or employee of a 

Participant;

(3) such Director is or was an officer of another entity, which entity has a 

compensation committee (or similar body) on which any Officer of the Company serves;

(4) such Director, or an entity of which the Director is a partner, officer, 

employee or director, receives or has received more than $100,000 in combined annual 

payments for legal, accounting or consulting services from the Company or the 

Company’s Affiliates, any Participant or Affiliate of such Participant. Compensation for 

services as a Director of the Company or as a director of an Affiliate thereof does not 

count toward the $100,000 payment limit, nor does deferred compensation for services 

rendered prior to becoming a Director, so long as such compensation is in no way 

contingent, conditioned, or revocable; or
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(5) in the case of a Public Director that is a member of the Regulatory 

Oversight Committee or the Participant Committee, such Public Director accepts or has 

accepted, directly or indirectly, any consulting, advisory or other compensatory fee from 

the Company, any of the Company’s Affiliates, any Participant or any Affiliate of such 

Participant, other than deferred compensation for services rendered prior to becoming a 

member of the Regulatory Oversight Committee or the Participant Committee, provided 

that such compensation is in no way contingent, conditioned, or revocable. This Rule 

201(d)(5) does not apply to compensation received in the Public Director’s capacity as a 

member of the Board, the Regulatory Oversight Committee; Participant Committee or 

any other Committee or as a member of the board of directors or similar governing body 

of an Affiliate of the Company.

(6) any of the relationships set forth in Rule 201(d)(1) through Rule 201(d)(5) 

apply to the “immediate family” (i.e., the spouse, parents, children, and siblings, in each 

case, whether by blood, marriage, or adoption) of such Director, or any person residing in 

the home of the Director or that of his or her “immediate family.”

Rule 202. Officers

(a) The Board shall appoint a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Compliance Officer, 

and such other officers of the Company (all of the foregoing, collectively, the “Officers”) as it may 

deem necessary or appropriate from time to time, in accordance with the Governing Documents.

(b) Any Officer may also be a director or employee of the Company or a director, 

officer or employee of any of its Affiliates.

(c) The Officers shall have such powers and duties in the management of the Company 

as the Board may prescribe from time to time.

Rule 203. Qualifications of Directors, Officers, Committee Members, Disciplinary Panel 

Members, Review Panel Members and Appeal Panel Members

(a) No Person may serve as a Director or Officer, or serve on a Committee, a 

Disciplinary Panel, Review Panel or an Appeal Panel, if such Person:

(1) within the prior three (3) years has been found, by a final decision in any 

action or proceeding brought in or by a court of competent jurisdiction, the CFTC, or any 

Self-Regulatory Organization or any clearing organization, to have committed a 

disciplinary offense;

(2) within the prior three (3) years has entered into a settlement agreement in 

which any of the findings or, in the absence of such findings, any of the acts charged, 

included a disciplinary offense;

(3) is currently suspended from trading on any contract market or swap 

execution facility, is suspended or expelled from membership in a Self-Regulatory 

Organization or Derivatives Clearing Organization, is serving any sentence or probation, 

or owes any portion of a fine or penalty related to either:
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(i) a finding of a disciplinary offense by a final decision in any action or 

proceeding brought in or by a court of competent jurisdiction, the CFTC, or any 

Self-Regulatory Organization or any clearing organization; or

(ii) a settlement agreement in which any of the findings or, in the 

absence of such findings, any of the acts charged included a disciplinary offense;

(4) is currently subject to an agreement with the CFTC or a Self-Regulatory 

Organization or a clearing organization not to apply for registration with the CFTC or for 

membership or participant status in a Self-Regulatory Organization or clearing 

organization;

(5) is currently, or within the past three (3) years has been, subject to a 

revocation or suspension of registration by the CFTC or has been convicted of a felony 

listed in sections 8a(2)(D)(i) through (iv) of the CEA;

(6) is currently subject to a denial, suspension or disqualification from serving 

on a disciplinary committee, arbitration panel or governing board of any 

“Self-Regulatory Organization,” as that term is defined in section 3(a)(26) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or

(7) is subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of 

the CEA.

(b) Any Director, Officer, member of a Committee, Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel 

or Appeal Panel, any individual nominated to serve in any such role, or any individual authorized 

by the Company to take summary action shall immediately notify the Chief Compliance Officer if 

such individual meets one or more of the criteria in Rule 203(a).

(c) For purposes of Rule 203(a), the terms “clearing organization,” “disciplinary 

offense,” “final decision,” and “settlement agreement” have the meanings given those terms in 

CFTC Regulation 1.63(a).

Rule 204. Standing Committees

(a) The Board shall initially have three (3) standing Committees: the Nominating 

Committee, the Participant Committee, and the Regulatory Oversight Committee.

(b) Each member of such Committees must be a Director, one of whom the Board shall 

designate as the chairperson of such Committee. A temporary member of any such Committee 

may be appointed, using the same process required for regular appointments to a Committee, 

during the absence or inability to act of a regular member, and such temporary appointee shall have 

all the rights, power, authority, duties and obligations of the regular Committee member until the 

latter is again present and able to act. 

(c) Each standing Committee shall assist in the supervision, management and Control 

of the affairs of the Company within its particular area of responsibility, subject to the authority of 

the Board.
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(d) Subject to the authority of the Board, each standing Committee shall determine the 

manner and form in which its proceedings shall be conducted. Each standing Committee may act 

only by the decision of a majority of the members of such Committee present and voting at a 

meeting or by unanimous written consent without a meeting. The Board has the authority to 

overrule the decisions of a standing Committee.

(e) If the Board rejects a recommendation or supersedes an action of the Regulatory 

Oversight Committee or the Participant Committee, the Company shall submit a written report to 

the CFTC detailing: (i) the recommendation of or action proposed to be taken by the Regulatory 

Oversight Committee or the Participant Committee; (ii) the rationale for such recommendation or 

action; (iii) the rationale of the Board for rejecting such recommendation or superseding such 

action; and (iv) the course of action that the Board decided to take contrary to such 

recommendation or action.

Rule 205. Additional Committees

(a) In addition to the standing Committees of the Board, the Board may from time to 

time constitute and appoint Committees and designate their composition, responsibilities and 

powers. The members of such Committees may be Directors, Participants, Authorized Traders, 

Authorized Users or such other individuals as may be qualified to serve on such Committee. The 

Board shall designate the chairperson of each such additional Committee.

(b) Each such additional Committee shall assist the Board in the management and 

control of the affairs of the Company within its particular area of responsibility.

(c) Subject to the authority of the Board, each such Committee shall determine the 

manner and form in which its proceedings shall be conducted. Each such Committee may act only 

by the decision of a majority of the members of such Committee present and voting at a meeting or 

by unanimous written consent without a meeting.

Rule 206. Conflicts of Interest

(a) A Director, Officer, member of any Committee, Review Panel Member, 

Disciplinary Panel Member or Appeal Panel Member who, in respect of a Company Proceeding or 

an Emergency, is subject to a “material conflict of interest” between his or her position as a 

Director, Officer, member of a Committee, Review Panel Member, Disciplinary Panel Member or 

Appeal Panel Member and his or her personal interests (any such Director, Officer, member of any 

Committee, Review Panel Member, Disciplinary Panel Member or Appeal Panel Member, an 

“Interested Person”) may not participate in deliberations or votes of the Board, a Committee, 

Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel or Appeal Panel in respect of such Company Proceeding or an 

Emergency, or otherwise exercise any authority with respect to such Company Proceeding or 

Emergency that involves his or her personal interest, except as described in Rule 206(d).

(b) For purposes of Rule 206(a), a “material conflict of interest” in respect of a 

Company Proceeding or an Emergency means a Director, Officer, member of a Committee, 

Review Panel Member, Disciplinary Panel Member or Appeal Panel Member:
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(1) being named as a respondent or potential respondent in such Company 

Proceeding;

(2) being an employer, employee, fellow employee or an Affiliate of a 

respondent or potential respondent in such Company Proceeding;

(3) having any significant, ongoing business relationship with a respondent or 

potential respondent in such Company Proceeding;

(4) having a family relationship with a respondent or potential respondent in 

such Company Proceeding (including the individual’s spouse, cohabitator, former 

spouse, parent, step-parent, child, step-child, sibling, step-brother, step-sister, 

grandparent, grandchild, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, father-in-law, mother-in-law, 

brother-in-law or sister-in-law);

(5) having a direct and substantial financial interest in the result of the

deliberations or vote based upon trades or positions that could reasonably be expected to 

be affected by such Company Proceeding or Emergency. A direct and substantial 

financial interest includes (but is not limited to) trades and positions in accounts of, 

controlled by, or affiliated with the Interested Person or in any other types of direct and 

substantial financial positions of the Interested Person that could reasonably be expected 

to be affected by such deliberations or vote; and/or

(6) any other circumstance that gives rise to a conflict between the exercise of 

authority by the Director, Officer, member of any Committee, Review Panel Member, 

Disciplinary Panel Member or Appeal Panel Member concerning such Company 

Proceeding or Emergency and his or her personal interests.

(c) Before considering a Company Proceeding or Emergency, an Interested Person 

must disclose in writing to the Chief Compliance Officer the material facts concerning his or her 

relationship or interest therein.

(d) An Interested Person who would be required otherwise to abstain from 

deliberations and voting pursuant to Rule 206(a) as a result of having a direct and substantial 

financial interest in the result of the deliberations and vote within the meaning of Rule 206(b)(5) 

may participate in deliberations, prior to a vote on the Company Proceeding or Emergency, if:

(1) the material facts about the Interested Person’s financial interest in the 

matter are disclosed or known to the Board, Committee, Review Panel, Disciplinary 

Panel or Appeal Panel (as applicable);

(2) the Board, Committee, Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel or Appeal Panel 

determines that the participation by the Interested Person would be consistent with the 

public interest and the interests of the Company; and

(3) a majority of the members of the Board, Committee, Review Panel, 

Disciplinary Panel or Appeal Panel (as applicable), excluding any Interested Persons, 
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vote to allow the Interested Person to participate in deliberations on the Company 

Proceeding or Emergency.

(e) If a determination is made pursuant to Rule 206(d) that an Interested Person may 

participate in deliberations prior to a vote, the minutes of the meeting of the Board, Committee, 

Disciplinary Panel or Appeal Panel will reflect the fact thereof and the reasons therefor.

(f) If a determination is made that all Committee members, Review Panel Members, 

Disciplinary Panel Members or Appeal Panel Members are Interested Persons with respect to a 

matter relating to a Company Proceeding or Emergency that is subject to a vote by such 

Committee, such Disciplinary Panel or the Appeal Panel (as applicable), the Board shall be 

authorized to appoint a panel of individuals who are not Interested Persons with respect to such 

matter. This panel shall have the same authority and powers over such matter that the Committee, 

Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel or Appeal Panel (as applicable) would have if the Committee 

members, Review Panel Members, Disciplinary Panel Members or Appeal Panel Members were 

not Interested Persons with respect to such matter. The Board shall have the same power to 

appoint individuals who are not Interested Persons, if necessary, to permit a Committee, Review 

Panel, Disciplinary Panel or Appeal Panel to satisfy quorum requirements.

Rule 207. Maintenance of Books and Records by the Company

(a) The Company shall keep, or cause to be kept, all books and records required to be 

maintained pursuant to the CEA and CFTC Regulations for at least five (5) years, and shall make 

such books and records readily accessible for inspection by the CFTC and the United States 

Department of Justice during the first two (2) years of such five-year period.

(b) The Company may disclose to any Government Agency, Self-Regulatory 

Organization or other Person information concerning or associated with a Participant or other 

Person that the Company believes is necessary and appropriate in exercising a legal or regulatory 

function, whether or not a formal arrangement governing the disclosure exists or a request for 

information was made.
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CHAPTER 3. TRADING SYSTEM

Rule 301. Access to the Trading System

(a) The Company will provide access to the Trading System and related services in an 

impartial, transparent, fair and non-discriminatory manner.

(b) A Participant will be granted Trading Privileges if it has been authorized by the 

Company pursuant to Rule 303.

(c) A Participant shall designate at least one (1) of its employees, agents or authorized 

contractors as an Authorized User and may designate other employees, agents and authorized 

contractors who are individuals as Authorized Users pursuant to Rule 305. Authorized Users may 

access and use the Trading System on behalf of such Participant and, to the extent permitted by 

Applicable Law, on behalf of such Participant’s Customers or the Customers of Authorized 

Traders.

(d) A Participant may designate one or more Customers, investment managers or other 

third parties that are not individuals as Authorized Traders pursuant to Rule 304. An Authorized 

Trader will be given access to the Trading System and shall designate at least one (1) of its 

employees as an Authorized User and may designate its employees, agents and authorized 

contractors as Authorized Users pursuant to Rule 305. Authorized Users may access and use the 

Trading System on behalf of such Authorized Trader and, to the extent permitted by Applicable 

Law, Customers of the Authorized Trader.

(e) A Participant may be held accountable by the Company for the actions and 

omissions of its Authorized Traders and its and their Authorized Users.

(f) An Independent Software Vendor will be granted access to the Company pursuant 

to criteria that are impartial, transparent and applied in a fair and non-discriminatory manner.

Rule 302. Participant Eligibility Requirements

(a) To be eligible for admission as a Participant, an applicant must demonstrate to the 

satisfaction of the Company that it:

(1) is an Eligible Contract Participant;

(2) has all registrations, licenses and consents required by its constituent 

documents and by Applicable Law to trade Swaps on the Trading System and is not 

subject to any trading ban, prohibition or suspension issued by the CFTC or by any 

Self-Regulatory Organization that is subject to the CFTC’s oversight, including the 

NFA; and

(3) with respect to Swaps that are to be cleared by a Derivatives Clearing 

Organization, is (i) a member of a Derivatives Clearing Organization and is authorized to 

clear Swaps for its own account and, if applicable, for the account(s) of other Persons or 

(ii) party to an agreement with at least one Clearing Firm, which Clearing Firm has 
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agreed to accept Swaps for clearing into the account of such Participant and, if 

applicable, other Persons acting through such Participant.

(3) (4) is of good reputation and business integrity, maintains adequate 

financial resources and credit, and satisfies such other criteria as the Company may 

establish from time to time.

(b) Once admitted, a Participant shall continue to comply with all applicable eligibility 

criteria in Rule 302(a) and shall provide the Company with such information in relation thereto as 

the Company may require.

(c) Each Participant shall immediately notify the Company in writing if it ceases to 

meet any of the requirements of Rule 302(a) above .

Rule 303. Participant Application Procedure

(a) A Person that desires to become a Participant shall:

(1) complete and submit the Participant Documentation;

(2) provide such information and documentation as may be requested by the 

Company, and comply with the procedures established by the Company for admission;

(3) distribute the Rules to its Authorized Traders and Authorized Users or 

cause the Rules to be so distributed; and

(4) if such Person is organized or established under the laws of a country other 

than the United States:

(i) maintain a presence in the United States, either directly or through a 

suitable agent, whose personnel are fluent in English, are knowledgeable about the 

applicant’s business, and can assist representatives of the Company as necessary;

(ii) represent and certify to the Company that it is in compliance with 

the registration or authorization requirements of its home country, that it is 

regulated in its home country by a financial regulatory authority with respect to the 

maintenance of relevant books and records, that it is subject to regular inspections 

and examinations by such home country regulator; 

(iii) make such other representations as the Company deems necessary; 

and

(iv) upon request by the Company, submit an opinion of outside counsel 

on home country law and, if applicable, other relevant non-domestic law, in form 

and substance acceptable to the Company.

(b) The Company may require additional information from an applicant and may 

conduct an investigation to verify information submitted by the applicant.
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(c) If the Company decides to admit an applicant as a Participant, it shall promptly 

notify the applicant in writing. Admission as a Participant does not confer any right of ownership 

in, right to attend or vote at meetings of, or right to share in the profits of, the Company or 

ownership of any of the Company’s Market Data, software supporting the Trading System and 

other intellectual property.

(d) The Company may deny or condition an application for admission as a Participant:

(1) if the applicant is unable to satisfactorily demonstrate its ability to satisfy 

the eligibility criteria to become or remain a Participant;

(2) if the applicant is unable to satisfactorily demonstrate its capacity to adhere 

to the Rules and Applicable Law;

(3) for such other cause as the Company may reasonably determine.

(e) If the Company decides to deny or condition an application for admission as a 

Participant, the Company shall promptly notify the applicant in writing, setting forth the reasons 

for the denial or conditioning of Participant status. The applicant may, within fourteen (14) days 

of the date of such notice, request in writing that the Participant Committee reconsider that 

determination. The Participant Committee may request additional information from the applicant 

or establish any other process that it believes is necessary and appropriate to consider the request 

for reconsideration. Unless extended with the consent of the applicant, the Participant Committee 

shall confirm, reverse or modify the denial or conditioning of the application within thirty (30) 

days of receiving the request for reconsideration or such longer period as may be agreed by the 

applicant. The Participant Committee shall promptly notify the applicant of its decision in writing. 

The decision of the Participant Committee shall be final and not subject to appeal.

Rule 304. Authorized Traders

(a) A Participant may grant permission to one or more Authorized Traders to enter 

Orders, originate and respond to Requests for Quotes, and otherwise access the Trading System in 

accordance with the criteria and procedures established by the Company. 

(b) By agreeing to act as an Authorized Trader, such Person agrees to be bound by the 

duties and responsibilities of an Authorized Trader, and to be subject to, and comply with, the 

Rules.

(c) An Authorized Trader must at all times:

(1) be an Eligible Contract Participant; 

(2) if applicable, be in compliance with CFTC Regulation 1.17;

(3) be organized in, located in and access the Trading System, and permit its 

Authorized Users to access the Trading System, solely from within the United States or a 

jurisdiction in which the Company is permitted by Applicable Law to offer the Trading 

System;
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(4) ensure that activity conducted under the User IDs assigned to it and its 

Authorized Users complies with the Rules;

(5) have the authority, at the Company’s request, to adjust or withdraw any 

Order or Request for Quote submitted under such User IDs;

(6) have and maintain all necessary regulatory approvals and/or licenses to 

operate as an Authorized Trader and not be subject to any trading ban, prohibition or 

suspension issued by the CFTC or by any Self-Regulatory Organization that is subject to 

CFTC oversight, including the NFA; and

(7) agree to such other terms and conditions as may be established by the 

Company from time to time.

(d) The Company will promptly notify a Participant in writing of its approval, or 

refusal to approve, the designation of an Authorized Trader. The Company may, in its sole 

discretion, revoke or suspend the designation of an Authorized Trader, and shall promptly notify 

the Participant of such action in accordance with procedures established by the Company.

(e) Each Authorized Trader shall immediately notify the Company in writing if it 

ceases to meet any of the requirements of Rule 304(c). Participant shall notify the Company in 

writing if it becomes aware that any of its Authorized Traders ceases to meet any of the 

requirements of Rule 304(c).

(f) A Participant that seeks to terminate the designation of an Authorized Trader shall 

notify the Company in writing, providing such information as the Company may require. The 

Company shall terminate the Trading Privileges of such Authorized Trader and its Authorized 

Users in accordance with procedures established by the Company.

Rule 305. Authorized Users

(a) A Participant, or an Authorized Trader or a Clearing Firm shall designate one or 

more Authorized Users in accordance with the criteria and procedures established by the 

Company. Each Authorized User shall be identified to the Company, in the manner prescribed by 

the Company, and shall be subject to the Rules. Any Authorized User designated by a Clearing 

Firm shall only be permitted to access and use administrative, credit control functionality on the 

Trading System and shall have no Trading Privileges. 

(b) By agreeing to act as an Authorized User, an individual agrees to be bound by the 

duties and responsibilities of an Authorized User and to be subject to, and comply with, the Rules.

(c) Each Authorized User must have and use a unique User ID to access the Trading 

System. It shall be the responsibility of an Authorized User and its sponsoring Participant, or its 

sponsoring Authorized Trader or its sponsoring Clearing Firm, as applicable, to ensure that each 

such User ID is registered with the Company, and that such registration is accurate at all times. In 

no event may a Person other than the Authorized User to whom a User ID has been assigned 

exercise Trading Privileges or otherwise access the Trading System using such User ID.
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(d) An Authorized User must at all times:

(1) ensure that activity conducted under the User ID assigned to such 

Authorized User, or any automated trading system for which the User ID is linked to such 

Authorized User, complies with Applicable Law and the Rules;

(2) if such Authorized User was designated by a Participant or an Authorized 

Trader, have the authority, at the Company’s request, to adjust or withdraw any Order or 

Request for Quote submitted to the Trading System under any User ID assigned or linked 

to such Authorized User;

(3) cooperate promptly and fully with the Company in any investigation, 

inquiry, audit, examination or proceeding regarding compliance with the Rules of the 

Company or any disciplinary or arbitration proceeding arising thereunder; 

(4) have and maintain all necessary regulatory approvals and/or licenses to act 

as an Authorized User; and

(5) agree to such other terms and conditions as may be established by the 

Company from time to time.

(e) The Company will promptly notify, in writing, the Participant, or the Authorized 

Trader or the Clearing Firm, as applicable, of its approval, or refusal to approve, the designation of 

an Authorized User. The Company may, in its sole discretion, revoke or suspend the designation 

of an individual as an Authorized User, and shall promptly notify the Participant, the Authorized 

Trader or the Clearing Firm of such action.

(f) Each Authorized User shall immediately notify the Company in writing if it ceases 

to meet any of the requirements of Rule 305(d). A Participant, or Authorized Trader or Clearing 

Firm, as applicable, shall notify the Company in writing if it becomes aware that any of its 

Authorized Users ceases to meet any of the requirements of Rule 305(d).

(g) A Participant, or Authorized Trader or Clearing Firm that seeks to terminate the 

designation of an individual as an Authorized User shall notify the Company in writing in 

accordance with procedures established by the Company. The Company shall act to terminate 

such Authorized User’s Trading Privileges or other use of and access to the Trading System in 

accordance with procedures established by the Company.

Rule 306. Independent Software Vendors

A Person seeking to act as an ISV must satisfy the Company’s technological integrity 

requirements and not adversely affect the Company’s ability to comply with the CEA and CFTC 

Regulations. An ISV may not effect transactions through the Trading System or receive the 

Market Data disseminated by the Company solely as the result of its acting as an ISV.
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Rule 307. Limitations on Access to the Trading System

(a) The Company may at any time revoke, suspend, limit, restrict or qualify a 

Participant’s Trading Privileges, and those of its Authorized Traders and its and their Authorized 

Users, in accordance with the procedures set forth in Chapter 7.

(b) Subject to the terms of any agreement between a Participant and a Clearing Firm, 

the Clearing Firm may at any time revoke the authorization of the Participant to submit Swaps to a 

Derivatives Clearing Organization for clearing by such Clearing Firm. Any such revocation shall 

become effective as soon as practicable after the receipt of written notice thereof by the Company 

or at such later date as may be specified in the written notice from the Clearing Firm, at which time 

the Trading Privileges of the Participant, its Authorized Traders and its Authorized Users with 

respect to the Swaps that are cleared for such Participant or its Authorized Traders or its or their 

respective Customers by that Clearing Firm shall be terminated, unless, prior to such termination 

such Participant has designated, in the form and in a manner satisfactory to the Company, another 

Clearing Firm to clear such Swaps.

Rule 308. Notices and Other Communications

The Company shall publish on the Company’s website each addition to or modification of 

the Rules in accordance with CFTC Regulations. Any such publication shall be deemed to have 

been made to all Participants, Authorized Traders and Authorized Users. Other communications 

from the Company may be transmitted by electronic mail and/or posted on the Company’s

website, and a Participant shall be responsible for conveying such communications or causing 

such communications to be conveyed, as appropriate, to its Authorized Traders and Authorized 

Users.

Rule 309. Designated Representatives

(a) Each Participant shall designate in writing one or more Designated Representatives 

who are authorized to represent the Participant before the Company and its committees and receive 

notices on behalf of the Participant and its Authorized Users. The Company shall be entitled to 

rely on the actions of the Designated Representative as binding on the Participant and its 

Authorized Users. Each Participant must provide the Company with the telephone number, 

mailing and electronic mail address of its Designated Representatives and shall promptly update 

this information by written notice whenever it changes.

(b) Each Authorized Trader shall designate in writing one or more Designated 

Representatives who are authorized to represent the Authorized Trader before the Company and its 

committees and receive notices on behalf of the Authorized Trader and its Authorized Users. The 

Company shall be entitled to rely on the actions of the Designated Representative as binding on the 

Authorized Trader and its Authorized Users. Each Authorized Trader must provide the Company 

with the telephone number, mailing and electronic mail address of its Designated Representatives 

and shall promptly update this information by written notice whenever it changes.
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Rule 310. Application of Rules; Jurisdiction of the Company

(a) By becoming a Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User, as applicable, 

and without any need for any further action, undertaking or agreement, such Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Authorized User agrees:

(1) to be bound by, and comply with the Rules, Company Requirements and 

Applicable Law, in each case to the extent applicable to it;

(2) to be bound by the acts and omissions of its Authorized Traders and/or 

Authorized Users, as applicable, and to be subject to the jurisdiction of the Company 

with respect to all matters arising from or related to the acts or omissions of such Persons; 

(3) to assist the Company in complying with the Company’s legal and 

regulatory obligations and to cooperate with the Company in any inquiry, investigation, 

audit, examination or proceeding; and

(4) to authorize the Company to provide information regarding such 

Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User as provided in Rule 207(b).

(b) A Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User whose Trading Privileges 

and/or ability to otherwise access the Trading System are suspended, revoked or terminated shall 

remain bound by the Rules, Company Requirements and Applicable Law, in each case to the 

extent applicable to it, her or him, and subject to the jurisdiction of the Company with respect to all 

matters arising prior to and during the period of any such suspension or prior to any such 

revocation or termination.

(c) Each Customer agrees that it is subject to the jurisdiction of the Company with 

respect to all matters arising from or related to the transactions effect by or on behalf of Customer 

on the Trading System.

(d) Each Clearing Firm that guarantees swaps intended to be cleared on the Company 

agrees that is it subject to the jurisdiction of the Company. 

Rule 311. Withdrawal of Participant

(a) To withdraw from the Company, a Participant must notify the Company in 

accordance with procedures established by the Company for such purpose.

(b) Effective upon the date that the Company accepts the withdrawal of a Participant, 

all rights and privileges of such Participant, its Authorized Traders and its and their Authorized 

Users shall terminate (including such Participant’s Trading Privileges and ability to access the 

Trading System). The withdrawal of a Participant shall not affect the rights of the Company under 

the Rules or relieve the former Participant of its obligation under the terms of any Swap entered 

into or otherwise arising under the Rules before the effective date of such withdrawal. A 

Participant that has withdrawn remains subject to the Rules, the Company Requirements and the 

jurisdiction of the Company for acts done and omissions made while a Participant, and must 
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cooperate in any Proceeding under Chapter 7 as if the withdrawn Participant were still a 

Participant.

Rule 312. Dues and Fees

Each Participant, Authorized Trader and ISV shall pay when due all dues and fees as may 

be established by the Company and published on the Company’s website or otherwise agreed 

between the Company and such Participant, Authorized Trader or ISV. The Company may 

suspend, revoke, limit, condition, restrict or qualify the Trading Privileges of a Participant or an 

Authorized Trader and the ability of a Participant, Authorized Trader or ISV to otherwise access 

the Trading System if such Participant, Authorized Trader or ISV fails to pay such amounts when 

due. The provisions of Chapter 7 (other than Rule 716) shall not apply to any such suspension, 

revocation, limitation, condition, restriction or qualification.

Rule 313. Business Days and Trading Hours

Except as detailed in Rule 912 relating to Emergencies, the Company shall provide notice 

of the Business Days of the Company and the Trading Hours applicable for each Swap. The 

Company shall provide such notice pursuant to Rule 308.
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CHAPTER 4. BUSINESS CONDUCT

Rule 401. Duties and Responsibilities of Participants and Authorized Traders

(a) Each Participant and Authorized Trader shall, and shall cause its Authorized Users 

to:

(1) use the Company’s Trading System in a responsible manner and not for any 

improper purpose;

(2) use the Company’s Trading System only to conduct business that is subject 

to the Rules and in a manner consistent with the Rules and Company Requirements;

(3) comply with the Rules and Company Requirements and act in a manner 

consistent with the Rules and Company Requirements;

(4) comply with the rules of a Derivatives Clearing Organization that accepts 

for clearing a Swap traded by the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User on 

the Trading System, to the extent applicable to such Participant, Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User and such Swap;

(5) observe high standards of integrity, market conduct, commercial honor, fair 

dealing, and just and equitable principles of trade while conducting or seeking to conduct 

any business connected with or concerning the Company;

(6) not knowingly mislead or conceal any material fact or matter in any 

dealings or filings with the Company or in connection with a Company Proceeding;

(7) keep all User IDs, account numbers and passwords related to the 

Company’s Trading System confidential; and

(8) keep, or cause to be kept, complete and accurate books and records relating 

to its use of the Company as required by Applicable Law (including, but not limited to, 

CFTC RegulationRegulations 1.31 and 1.35), including records of their activity in the 

index or instrument used as a reference price, the underlying instrument and related 

derivatives markets with respect to Swaps, and make such books and records available 

for inspection by a representative of the Company or the Regulatory Services Provider 

and otherwise as required by Applicable Law. Such records are to be made available, 

upon request, to the CFTC or the U.S. Department of Justice. 

(b) In addition to the requirements of Rule 401(a), each Participant shall be responsible 

for all Orders, RFQs and transactions effected on the Trading System by or for the account of such 

Participant, its Authorized Traders and Authorized Users or by any Person using its or their User 

IDs unless: (i) the Participant has directed the Company to deactivate such User ID and the 

Company has had a reasonable opportunity to act upon such direction, (ii) the unauthorized use of 

a User ID is due to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Company; or (iii) the 

transactions effected through the use of such User ID exceed the limits that the Company has 

agreed to establish with respect to such transactions. 
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(c) Each Participant and Authorized Trader that is registered, or required to be 

registered, with the CFTC as a swap dealer or a major swap participant is responsible for 

compliance with the mandatory trading requirement of Section 2(h)(8) of the CEA when such 

Participant or Authorized Trader enters into, or facilitates entry into, a Swap that is required to be 

cleared pursuant to Section 2(h)(2)(D) of the CEA and CFTC Regulation 39.5.

Rule 402. Required Notices

(a) Each Participant, Authorized Trader or ISV, to the extent applicable, shall 

immediately notify the Company upon becoming aware of any of the following events:

(1) any material changes to the information provided to the Company by the 

Participant pursuant to Rule 302, Rule 303, Rule 304, Rule 306 or Rule 309;

(2) any refusal of admission to any Self-Regulatory Organization, or 

withdrawal of an application for membership or participant status in a Self-Regulatory 

Organization, by the Participant or any of its Authorized Traders;

(3) any expulsion, suspension or fine in excess of $25,000 (whether through an 

adverse determination, voluntary settlement or otherwise) imposed on the Participant, 

Authorized Trader or ISV or any of their Authorized Users by any Self-Regulatory 

Organization;

(4) any denial or withdrawal of an application for registration or license with 

respect to the Participant, Authorized Trader or any of their Authorized Users by or from 

any Government Agency, and any revocation, suspension or conditioning of a 

registration or license granted by any Government Agency to the Participant, Authorized 

Trader or ISV or any of their Authorized Users;

(5) the commencement of any judicial or administrative proceeding against the 

Participant, Authorized Traders or ISV or any of their Authorized Users by a 

Government Agency or the imposition of a fine in excess of $25,000, cease and desist 

order, denial of trading privileges, censure or other sanction or remedy (whether through 

an adverse determination, voluntary settlement or otherwise) imposed by any 

Government Agency;

(6) the indictment or conviction of, or any confession of guilt or plea of guilty 

or nolo contendere by, the Participant, Authorized Trader or ISV or any of their 

Authorized Users, senior officers or principals for any felony or for any misdemeanor 

involving, arising from, or related to, the purchase or sale of any Swap or other financial 

instrument, or involving or arising from fraud or moral turpitude; and

(7) it, any of its Authorized Traders, or any of its or their Affiliates becomes 

Insolvent.
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Rule 403. Inspections by the Company

The Company and the Regulatory Services Provider shall have the right to access and 

inspect systems, equipment, and software operated by a Participant or Authorized Trader, 

wherever located, access the systems, equipment, software, and the premises on which the 

systems, equipment, and software are located, data stored in such systems or equipment, and copy 

and/or reproduce such data as may be necessary to monitor for compliance such Participant or 

Authorized Trader with the requirements of Rule 520.

Rule 404. Financial and Related Reporting Requirements

(a) A Participant that is registered with or authorized or supervised by a Government 

Agency shall provide to the Company or to the Regulatory Services Provider a copy of such 

Participant’s regulatory capital report, reasonably contemporaneously with the filing of such 

report and substantially in the form such report was filed with such Government Agency. 

Additionally, a Participant, whether or not subject to such filing requirements, shall provide the 

Company or the Regulatory Services Provider with such financial information as the Company 

may reasonably require from time to time.

(b) Each Participant must notify the Company and the Regulatory Services Provider 

immediately when it ceases to be an Eligible Contract Participant, and if the Participant is 

registered with the CFTC as a futures commission merchant, when it ceases to satisfy the 

minimum financial requirements set out in CFTC Regulation 1.17. A Participant that is registered 

with the CFTC as a futures commission merchant that is unable to demonstrate that it is in 

compliance with the minimum financial requirements of CFTC Regulation 1.17 shall not effect 

transactions in Swaps except for the purpose of closing open positions to the extent not prohibited 

by Applicable Law.

Rule 405. Restrictions on Activity

If a Termination Event occurs with respect to a Participant or the Company determines that 

the financial or operational condition of a Participant, one of its Affiliates or an Authorized Trader 

is such that to allow that Participant to continue to have access to the Trading System would 

adversely affect the Company or the financial markets, the Company may limit or restrict the 

number or type of Swaps that may be traded by such Participant or Authorized Trader on the 

Trading System or terminate the Trading Privileges of such Participant, or Authorized Trader, as 

well as the Trading Privileges of all of its and their Authorized Users.

Rule 406. Customers

(a) The agreement between a Participant or Authorized Trader and its Customers shall 

be subject to the Rules to the extent applicable. Additionally, a Participant or Authorized Trader, 

as applicable, will be deemed to represent and warrant each time it makes use of the Trading 

System on behalf of a Customer that such Customer is an Eligible Contract Participant.

(b) Any market participant that is not subject to Rule 401(a)(8) and that conducts 

substantial trading on the Trading System shall keep, or cause to be kept, complete and accurate 

books and records, including but not limited to records of its trading in Swaps, in the instruments 
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underlying any such Swaps or in any instrument or index used as a reference price for a Swap, or in 

any related derivatives markets, for at least five years and make such books and records available 

to the Company, the Regulatory Services Provider and the CFTC in accordance with Applicable 

Law. For purposes of this paragraph (b), “substantial trading” shall be determined by the 

Company its sole discretion upon prior written notice, taking into consideration the market 

participant’s average daily trading volume and open interest for one or more Swaps effected on or 

pursuant to the Rules.

Rule 407. Publication of Trade Information

The Company shall daily publish on its website information regarding volume, price 

ranges (based on non-cancelled bids, non-cancelled offers, and sales) subject to such prices 

accurately reflecting market conditions within the discretion of the Company, and opening and 

closing prices. The Company shall also publish on its website, on a daily basis, the total quantity of 

Block Trades that are included in the total volume of trading. Information on settlement prices and 

open interest shall be provided, if applicable, by the relevant Derivatives Clearing Organization.

Rule 408. Disaster Recovery; Business Continuity

(a) Each Participant shall have written disaster recovery and business continuity 

policies and procedures in place to ensure it is able to operate in the event of a significant internal 

or external interruption to its operations. 

(b) The Company may from time to time identify certain Participants that provide 

significant liquidity to the Trading System and each such Participant shall also:

(1) have procedures in place to allow it to continue to operate during periods of 

stress or to transfer accounts to another fully operational Participant with minimal 

disruption to the Company and to its Authorized Traders and Customers; and

(2) perform periodic testing of disaster recovery and business continuity plans, 

duplication of critical systems at back-up sites and periodic back-up of critical 

information and must maintain and, at the request of the Company, provide accurate and 

complete contact information for its key personnel.

(c) The Company may prescribe additional and/or alternative requirements for a 

Participant’s compliance with this Rule.

Rule 409. Anti-Money Laundering Organization

Each Participant and Authorized Trader will be deemed to have made the following 

representations, warranties and covenants to the Company, on behalf of itself and its respective 

Authorized Users and Customers, each time it makes use of the Trading System:

(a) Such Participant and Authorized Trader is in compliance with all laws, rules and 

regulations applicable to it pertaining to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism, including those 

related to sanctions screening and customer identification and verification. Such Participant or 

Authorized Trader shall provide to the Company, upon request, so long as permitted by Applicable 
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Law, including those pertaining to data privacy, any documents and other information reasonably 

requested by the Company in order to satisfy any anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, sanctions 

screening or other customer identification and verification laws, rules and regulations applicable to 

the Company. Such information may include, without limitation, background documentation and 

foreign bank certifications relating to such Participant or Authorized Trader or any of their 

respective Authorized Users or Customers and, if applicable, the anti-money laundering, 

anti-terrorism sanctions screening or customer identification or verification policies of such 

Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User or Customers, as applicable; and

(b) To the extent that such Participant or Authorized Trader, or any of their respective 

Authorized Users or Customers, is located within the United States, or is otherwise subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States, such Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User or 

Customer is a U.S. person as defined by applicable regulations administered and enforced by the 

Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), is subject to such regulations, and has implemented a 

program reasonably designed to comply with such regulations. As part of its OFAC compliance 

program, such Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User or Customer, as applicable, has 

screened and will continue periodically to screen against the most recent version of OFAC’s List 

of Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially 

Designated Global Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Narcotics 

Traffickers the name and address of any counterparty to a transaction it executed or that was 

executed on its behalf on the Trading System.
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CHAPTER 5. TRADING PRACTICES

Rule 501. Scope

This Chapter 5 applies to all transactions in Swaps, except as otherwise specifically 

provided in Chapter 6.

Rule 502. Rule Violations

It shall be a violation for any Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction to violate any 

Rule, or any Company Requirement.

Rule 503. Just and Equitable Principles of Trade; Acts Detrimental

It shall be a violation of these Rules for any Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction to 

engage in conduct inconsistent with just and equitable principles of trade or that is detrimental to 

the interest or welfare of the Company. A Participant that has actual or constructive notice of a 

violation of the Rules involving the use of the Trading System by any of its Authorized Traders or 

any of their respective Authorized Users or Customers may be found to have committed an act 

detrimental to the Company.

Rule 504. Fraudulent Acts and Abusive Trading Practices Prohibited

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall engage in any fraudulent act or 

abusive trading practice or engage in any scheme to defraud, deceive or mislead another Person 

(including the Company and the Regulatory Services Provider) in connection with or relating to 

any Swap. Specifically, no Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall engage in front 

running, fraudulent trading, trading ahead of customers, trading against customer orders, 

accommodation trading, improper cross trading wash trading, pre-arranged trading (except for 

block trades as permitted by these rules), money passes, some of which are considered further 

below, or engage in any other act or trading practice that the Company deems to be fraudulent or 

abusive.

Rule 505. Fictitious or Noncompetitive Transactions Prohibited

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall engage in fictitious or 

noncompetitive transactions except, in the case of noncompetitive transactions, as otherwise 

provided in Chapter 6, or enter an Order, or originate or respond to a Request for Quote for such a 

purpose.

Rule 506. Market Disruption Prohibited

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall enter data or other information into 

the Trading System, including Orders, Requests for Quote, for the purpose of upsetting the 

equilibrium of the market in any Swap or creating a condition in which prices do not or will not 

reflect fair market values.
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Rule 507. Market Manipulation Prohibited

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall attempt to manipulate or manipulate 

the market in any Swap.

Rule 508. Disruptive Trading Practices Prohibited

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall engage in any trading practice or 

conduct that constitutes a “disruptive trading practice,” as such term is described in Section 

4c(a)(5) of the CEA or in interpretive guidance issued by the CFTC, in relation to the trading of 

any Swap.

Rule 509. Prohibition of Misstatements

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall make a misstatement of a material 

fact to the Company, including any Committee, Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel or Appeal 

Panel, or to the Regulatory Services Provider, or knowingly omit to state a material fact necessary 

in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were 

made, not misleading.

Rule 510. Misuse of the Trading System

Misuse of the Trading System is strictly prohibited. No Person subject to the Company’s 

jurisdiction shall (i) permit unauthorized use of the Trading System; (ii) assist any Person in 

obtaining unauthorized access to the Trading System; (iii) trade in any Swap on the Trading 

System without an agreement and an established account in good standing with a Clearing Firm; 

(iv) interfere with the operation of the Trading System; (viv) intercept or interfere with 

information provided by or to the Trading System; or (viv) in any way use the Trading System in a 

manner contrary to the Rules.

Rule 511. Financial or Other Incentive Programs

The Company may from time to time establish programs that provide Participants with 

financial or other incentives for meeting trading volume, liquidity or other thresholds as may be 

established by the Company.

Rule 512. Withholding of Customer Orders Prohibited; Priority of Customer Orders

(a) Customer Orders (other than a Customer Order allowing discretion as to time and 

price) must be entered into the Trading System as soon as practicable and in the sequence in which 

they were received by a Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User, as applicable. A 

Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User that receives a Customer Order shall 

electronically record the time when such Customer Order was received. 

(b) No Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User shall withhold or withdraw 

from the market any Customer Order, or any part of a Customer Order, for the benefit of any 

Person other than the Customer for whom the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User is 

placing the Customer Order. No Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User shall 
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knowingly enter an Order or submit a Request for Quote into the Trading System for its own 

account, an account in which it has a direct or indirect financial interest, or an account over which 

it has discretionary trading authority (other than an Order allowing discretion as to time and price) 

when such Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User is in possession of a Customer Order 

for the same Swap that can be but has not been submitted to the Trading System.

(c) Nothing in this Rule 512 shall limit the ability of an “eligible account manager” to 

bunch Orders in accordance with CFTC Regulation 1.35(b)(5).

Rule 513. Handling of Customer Orders

(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), no Person in possession of a 

Customer Order shall knowingly take, directly or indirectly, the opposite side of such Customer 

Order on the Trading System’s central limit order book for its own account, an account in which it 

has a direct or indirect financial interest, or an account over which it has discretionary trading 

authority.

(b) A Person may knowingly trade on the Trading System’s central limit order book 

against a Customer Order for its own account, an account in which it has a direct or indirect 

financial interest, or an account over which it has discretionary trading authority, if the Customer 

Order has been entered into the Trading System’s central limit order book as promptly as 

practicable after receipt of the Customer Order and has been exposed on the Trading System’s 

central limit order book for a minimum of fifteen (15) seconds.

(c) The provisions of this Rule 513 shall not apply to Permitted Transactions.

Rule 514. Disclosing Orders and Requests for Quotes Prohibited

(a) No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall disclose the terms of an 

Order, Request for Quote or Indication of Interest prior to its entry into the Trading System, except 

to a Company Official, the Regulatory Services Provider or a Government Agency, and no Person 

subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall solicit or induce another Person to disclose such 

information.

(b) The foregoing shall not apply to pre-execution communications conducted in 

accordance with Rule 517(b), to Block Trades effected pursuant to Chapter 6, to statements of 

opinion, or to indications of the price at which a market may open or trade.

Rule 515. Simultaneous Buy and Sell Orders for Different Beneficial Owners

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) and (c), opposite Orders for different beneficial 

owners may not knowingly be simultaneously entered into the Trading System’s central limit 

order book by an Authorized User on behalf of a Participant or Authorized Trader with discretion 

over both accounts unless one Order is exposed for a minimum of fifteen (15) seconds. 

(b) A Customer Order allowing for price and/or time discretion may be knowingly 

entered into the Trading System’s central limit order book opposite another Order entered by the 
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same Person only if it is entered immediately upon receipt or exposed to the market for a minimum 

of fifteen (15) seconds.

(c) The Company may adjust the fifteen (15) second time delay required under this 

Rule for a given Swap, based upon such Swap’s liquidity and other product-specific 

considerations if any such amended time delay provides Participants, Authorized Traders and 

Authorized Users sufficient time to have a meaningful opportunity to execute against such Order.

(d) The provisions of this Rule 515 shall not apply to Permitted Transactions or to 

transactions executed pursuant to Chapter 6.

Rule 516. Wash Sales Prohibited

No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall buy and sell a Swap, place or accept 

buy and sell Orders in the same Swap, or knowingly execute or accommodate the execution of 

such Orders by direct or indirect means, if the Person knows or reasonably should know that the 

purpose of the transactions is to avoid taking a bona fide market position exposed to market risk. 

Buy and sell Orders for different accounts with common beneficial ownership that are entered with 

the intent to negate market risk or price competition shall also be deemed to violate this Rule. 

Rule 517. “Moneypassing,” Pre-arranged, Pre-Negotiated and Noncompetitive 

Transactions Prohibited

(a) No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction may enter Orders or Requests for 

Quote the purpose of which is to enter into Swaps with a resulting profit to one account and a loss 

in the other account but no net change in the open positions in either account, commonly known as 

a “money pass.”

(b) No Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall pre-arrange or pre-negotiate 

any purchase or sale or noncompetitively execute any transaction that is subject to the Rules. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Participants, Authorized Traders and Authorized Users may 

engage in pre-execution communications with regard to transactions executed or to be executed on 

the Trading System if one party (the first party) wishes to be assured that a contra party (the second 

party) will take the opposite side of the first party’s Order, subject to the following restrictions:

(1) a party may not engage in pre-execution communications with other market 

participants on behalf of another party unless the party for whose benefit the trade is 

being made has previously agreed to permit such communications.

(2) parties to pre-execution communications shall not disclose to a non-party 

the details of such communications or enter an Order to take advantage of information 

conveyed during such communications except in accordance with this Rule.

(3) the first party’s Order must be entered into the Trading System first, and the 

second party’s Order may not be entered into the Trading System until a period of fifteen 

(15) seconds has elapsed from the time of entry of the first Order.
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(4) each such Order will be processed and matched separately and the 

Company does not guarantee that the first and second party’s Orders will be matched 

with each other or that both Orders will be executed.

(c) The provisions of paragraph (b) shall not apply to Block Trades or Permitted 

Transactions.

Rule 518. Responsibility for Customer Orders

A Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User may not directly or indirectly 

guarantee the execution of a Customer Order or any of its terms such as the quantity or price and 

may only report an execution that has been effected through the Trading System or has been 

executed pursuant to Chapter 6. This Rule shall not be construed to prevent a Participant or 

Authorized Trader from assuming or sharing in the Losses resulting from an error or the 

mishandling of a Customer Order.

Rule 519. Discretionary Customer Orders

No Person shall submit a discretionary Customer Order to the Trading System without the 

prior written consent of such Customer to the exercise of such discretion. A Customer Order that 

solely gives a Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User time and price discretion shall 

not be subject to this Rule.

Rule 520. Recordkeeping; Audit Trail 

(a) Each Person entering an Order into the Trading System or originating or 

responding to a Request for Quote shall include with such Order or Request for Quote such 

information as may be required by the Company, including, to the extent applicable, the legal 

entity identifier assigned to each party to a Swap and to each party for whom an Order is submitted 

or Request for Quote is originated or responded to. If a Participant, Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User receives a Customer Order that cannot be immediately entered into the Trading 

System or as to which the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User has been given time 

and price discretion, the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User shall create an 

electronic record that identifies the Customer from whom the Customer Order has been received, 

including an electronic timestamp reflecting the date and time (to the nearest second) of receipt.

(b) Participants that provide connectivity to the Trading System to Authorized Traders, 

Customers or other third parties are responsible for maintaining or causing such Authorized 

Traders, Customers or other third parties to maintain a routing/front-end audit trail for all Orders 

and Requests for Quotes, including entry, modification, cancellation and responses to such 

messages, entered into the Trading System through any gateway to the Trading System, including 

the times thereof to the highest level of precision achievable by the Participant’s operating system, 

but at least to the nearest second (“Audit Trail”). Times that are so captured must not be capable of 

being modified.

(1) Participants shall maintain, or shall cause Authorized Traders, Customers 

and other third parties to whom they have provided connectivity to the Trading System to 

maintain, Audit Trail data in the form and manner required by CFTC Regulations and in 
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accordance with such additional requirements as may be established by the Company. 

Participants must have the ability to produce such data, or cause such data to be 

produced, in a standard format upon request of the Market Regulation Department.

(i) In addition, Participants must have the ability to produce such documents as 

specified in rule 525, or any or all other underlying previously-negotiated 

freestanding agreements on request of the Market Regulation Department or on 

request of the Commission to whom Market Regulation Department will furnish 

such documents as soon as they are available. 

(2) A Participant whose Customer is itself a Participant may agree with such 

Customer that it is the Customer’s obligation to maintain the Audit Trail for such 

Customer’s Orders and Requests for Quotes. Any such agreement shall be in writing, a 

copy of which shall be provided to the Market Regulation Department. 

(c) A suspense account may be used at the time of entry of an Order or Request for 

Quote provided that a contemporaneous electronic or written record of the Order or Request for 

Quote with the account designation is made, time-stamped and maintained in accordance with this 

Rule 520, and provided that the correct account designation is provided to the Clearing Firm prior 

to the end of the trading day. A suspense account may also be used at the time of entry for bunched 

Orders or Requests for Quote that are eligible for post-trade allocation and that are executed and 

allocated in accordance with CFTC Regulation 1.35(b)(5).

(d) A Person must include the customer type indicator (“CTI”) code with each Order 

and Request for Quote. The CTI codes are as follows:

(1) CTI-1 Transactions initiated and executed by a Participant or Authorized 

Trader for its own account, for an account it Controls or for an account in which it has an 

ownership or financial interest.

(2) CTI-2 Transactions executed for the proprietary account (as such term is 

defined in CFTC Regulation 1.3(y)) of a Participant, or Authorized Trader or Clearing 

Firm.

(3) CTI-3 Transactions in which a Participant, Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User is trading (i) for the personal account of another Participant, Authorized 

Trader or Authorized User; (ii) for an account that is controlled by such other Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Authorized User; or (iii) for an account in which such a Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Authorized User has an ownership or financial interest.

(4) CTI-4 Any transaction not within CTIs 1, 2 or 3.

Rule 521. Position Limits; Exemptions

(a) To reduce the potential threat of market manipulation or congestion, the Company 

mayshall establish, as is necessary or appropriate, position limits or position accountability levels

for one or more Swaps. The Company may grant exemptions from such position limits in 
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accordance with CFTC Regulations. A Person seeking an exemption from position limits must 

apply to the Market Regulation Department in the form and manner required by the Company. 

(b) A Person intending to exceed position limits, including limits established pursuant 

to a previously approved exemption, must file the required application and receive approval from 

the Company prior to exceeding such limits. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Person who 

establishes an exemption-eligible position in excess of position limits and files the required 

application with the Company shall not be in violation of this rule provided the filing occurs within 

one Business Day after assuming the position. In the event the positions in excess of the limits are 

not deemed to be exemption-eligible, the applicant will be in violation of speculative limits for the 

period of time in which the excess positions remained open.

(c) The Company shall, on the basis of the application and any requested supplemental 

information, determine whether an exemption from position limits shall be granted. The Company 

may approve, deny, condition or limit any exemption request based on factors deemed by the 

Company to be relevant, including, but not limited to, the applicant’s business needs and financial 

status, as well as whether the positions can be established and liquidated in an orderly manner. A 

Person that has received an exemption from position limits pursuant to this Rule 521 shall be 

deemed to have agreed:

(1) to comply with all terms, conditions or limitations imposed by the 

Company with respect to the exemption;

(2) that the Company may modify or revoke the exemption at any time;

(3) to initiate and liquidate positions in an orderly manner; and

(4) to promptly submit a supplemental statement to the Company whenever 

there is a material change to the information provided in the most recent application.

(d) A Participant shall not be in violation of this Rule if it carries positions for its 

Customers in excess of the applicable position limits for such reasonable period of time as the firm 

may require to discover and liquidate the excess positions. For the purposes of this Rule, a 

reasonable period of time shall generally not exceed one Business Day. A Customer who exceeds 

the position limits as a result of maintaining positions at more than one Participant shall be deemed 

to have waived confidentiality regarding his positions and the identity of the Clearing Firm(s) at 

which they are maintained. A Participant carrying such positions shall not be in violation of this 

Rule if, upon notification by the Company, it liquidates its pro-rata share of the position in excess 

of the limits or otherwise ensures the Customer is in compliance with the limits within a reasonable 

period of time. 

(e) Nothing in this Rule 521 shall in any way limit:

(1) the authority of the Company to take emergency action; or

(2) the authority of the Company to review at any time any position owned or 

controlled by any Person and to direct that such position be reduced to the applicable 

position limit.
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(f) A Person who has received written authorization from the Company for an 

exemption from position limits must annually file an updated application on or before the date that 

is one year following the approval date of the most recent application. Failure to file an updated 

application shall result in expiration of the exemption.

(g) No Person shall exceed position limits that may be established by the Company or 

the CFTC, unless an exemption is granted by the Company. Any Person making a bid or offer that 

would, if accepted, cause such person to exceed the applicable position limits shall be in violation 

of this Rule. 

(h) The Company shall demonstrate compliance with CFTC Regulation 37.600 by 

sending the CFTC a list of Permitted Transactions traded on or pursuant to the Rules.

Rule 522. Position Accountability

(a) TheTo reduce the potential threat of market manipulation or congestion, the

Company shall establish, as is necessary or appropriate, position accountability levels for 

Required Transactions unless the Company has previously established position limits pursuant to 

Rule 521one or more Swaps. A Person who holds or controls aggregate positions in excess of 

position accountability levels shall:

(1) provide, in a timely manner upon request by the Company, information 

regarding the nature of the position, trading strategy, and hedging information, if 

applicable;

(2) be deemed to have consented, when so ordered by the Company, not to 

further increase the positions which exceed such position accountability levels; and

(3) initiate and/or liquidate such positions in an orderly manner.

(b) For purposes of this Rule 522, all positions in accounts for which a Person, by 

power of attorney or otherwise, directly or indirectly controls trading shall be included with the 

positions held by such Person. The provisions of this rule shall apply to positions held by two or 

more Persons acting pursuant to an expressed or implied agreement or understanding, the same as 

if the positions were held by or the trading of the positions was controlled by a single Person.

Rule 523. Aggregation of Positions

For purposes of Rule 521 and Rule 522, positions in Swaps shall be aggregated in 

accordance with CFTC Regulations.

Rule 524. Operation of the Trading System

The following is a summary of the execution methods and credit and risk limit 

functionality available on the Trading System. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive 

description of the operation of the Trading System or the execution methods available thereon. 

Certain execution methods may not be available for certain Swaps (e.g., Swaps that are not 

cleared, Swaps in certain product types, etc.). Additional information with respect to the operation 
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of the Trading System and the execution methods is provided in the applicable user guide and 

other specific information that the Company may make available to Participants, Authorized 

Traders and Authorized Users.

(a) The Company supports both Permitted Transactions and Required Transactions 

through the execution methods detailed in Rule 524(b) and (c). Each Required Transaction that is 

not a Block Trade will be executed using Central Limit Order Book or Request for Quote 

functionality. The Company does not support the trading of Required Transactions at this time.

(b) Central Limit Order Book (CLOB). The Trading System’s central limit order book 

functionality provides a system through which Participants may accept bids or offers made by 

other Participants that are open to multiple Participants, subject to any applicable credit and/or risk 

limits established for such transactions.

(c) Request for Quote. Under the RFQ functionality, a Person (the “Taker”) may 

submit an RFQ to not less than the minimum number of market participants (“Makers”) required 

under CFTC Regulations. For RFQ transactions that are Required Transactions, the following 

principles shall apply: (i) a Maker affiliated with a Taker will not count towards the minimum 

number of Makers required under CFTC Regulations; (ii) Makers that are Affiliates shall count 

only as a single Maker; (iii) at the same time that the Taker receives the first responsive bid or offer 

from a Maker, the Taker will also receive any firm bid or offer pertaining to the same Swap resting 

on the Trading System’s central limit order book; (iv) the Taker shall have the opportunity to (x) 

execute against any responsive bid or offer from a Maker or a firm resting bid or offer provided 

pursuant to subparagraph (iii), or (y) submit a counteroffer to one or more of the Makers that have 

responded to the RFQ as long as such counteroffer is submitted to at least the minimum number of 

Makers required by CFTC Regulations. 

(d) Credit and Risk Limits. The Trading System permits Participants, and Authorized 

Traders and Clearing Firms to input and establish credit and/or risk limits on the Trading System. 

The Company may also require Participants, and/or Authorized Traders and/or Clearing Firms to 

input and establish credit and/or risk limits on the Trading System. A Person establishing credit 

and/or risk limits on the Trading System shall be solely responsible for evaluating the 

creditworthiness of each Person for whom it establishes such limit and for ensuring that such 

Person is in compliance with any such limits. Each Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized 

User shall be responsible for ensuring that it is in compliance with any such credit limits, however, 

and the Company shall not have any responsibility for compliance with credit limits by a 

Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User, notwithstanding that such credit limits may 

have been input into the Trading System, or for monitoring, maintaining or enforcing any such 

credit limits.

Rule 525. Confirmation of Transactions

(a) The Company shall provide each counterparty to a Swap with a written record of all 

of the terms of the Swap which shall serve as a confirmation of the Swap. The economic terms that 

relate to a transaction agreed by Participants with respect to an uncleared Swap shall be reflected

by the Company in a written communication (the "Trade Communication") sent to the applicable 

Participants immediately after they have transacted on the trading system. The transaction is 
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deemed executed at the same time as the Trade Communication is sent. The Trade 

Communication, together with the documents and agreements (including, without limitation, 

ISDA Master Agreements, other master agreements, terms supplements, master confirmation 

agreements, and incorporated industry definitions) governing such Swap existing at the time of 

such commitment to which the Participants are party (the “Terms Incorporated by Reference”) 

shall, taken together, for purposes of CFTC Regulation 37.6(b) comprise all of the terms of such 

Swap and serve as a confirmation of such Swap (the Trade Communication and Terms 

Incorporated by Reference, together, the “SEF Confirmation”). 

(b) In satisfaction of the obligations imposed on the Company under CFTC Regulation 

37.6(b), (i) each Trade Communication is deemed to incorporate the Terms Incorporated by 

Reference set forth in this Rule 525, and (ii) the Participants hereby agree that the provisions of 

Rule 525 shall govern any conflicting terms. 

(c) In the event of any conflict between (x) the Trade Communication and (y) the 

Terms Incorporated by Reference, the Trade Communication shall prevail to the extent of any 

inconsistency. All SEF Confirmations shall contain a provision to such effect.

(d) All Participants must maintain all Terms Incorporated by Reference in accordance 

with CFTC No-Action Letter 15-25, expiring March 31, 2016. All Participants additionally must 

provide the relevant Terms Incorporated by Reference to the Company upon request. The 

Company must request such Terms Incorporated by Reference from Participants promptly after 

CommissionCFTC request, and must provide such Terms to the CommissionCFTC as soon as they 

become available to the Company.

(e) A Swap that is effected as a Block Trade shall be confirmed by the Company when 

it is reported to the Company in accordance with Rule 601. 

Rule 526. Trade Cancellations and Price Adjustments

(a) Cancellation of Swaps Not Accepted for Clearing. 

(1) If the Company determines that a transaction (including a transaction that is 

a component leg of a Package Transaction) is rejected from clearing by a Derivatives 

Clearing Organization (i) because of a clerical or operational error or omission by the 

Company or by one of the counterparties to the transaction or its agent, or (ii) in the case 

of a component leg of a Package Transaction, due to the sequencing of the submission of 

the component legs of the Package Transaction, a new transaction, with terms and

conditions that match the terms and conditions of the original transaction, other than any 

such error or omission and time of execution, may be executed and submitted for clearing 

without having been executed pursuant to the methods set forth in CFTC Regulation 

37.9(a)(2). If the Company is able to identify and determine how to correct the error or 

omission, it may execute the new transaction without obtaining the consent of the 

counterparties. If the Company is unable to determine how to correct the error or 

omission, the Company, at its election, may either (x) seek guidance from the 

counterparties with respect to how to correct the error, after which the Company may 

then correct the error with the consent of both counterparties, or (y) elect not to correct 
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the error, in which case the transaction will be treated as void ab initio and shall be 

cancelled by the Company. Execution of a new trade and resubmission of such trade to 

clearing pursuant to this Rule 526(a) must occur as quickly as technologically practicable 

after the relevant Clearing Firm(s) receipt of notice of the rejection by the Derivatives 

Clearing Organization, but, in any event, no later than 60 minutes from issuance of such 

notice. If the resubmitted transaction is rejected from clearing, such transaction will be 

void ab initio and shall be cancelled by the Company. The counterparties may not 

resubmit a new transaction a second time. The procedure set forth in this Rule 526(a)(1) 

is not available with respect to transactions that are rejected from clearing for credit 

reasons.

(2) If a clerical or operational error or omission made by the Company, one of 

the counterparties to a transaction or its agent is not discovered until after a transaction 

has been cleared, the Company may permit the original counterparties to the transaction 

to enter into a prearranged transaction that offsets the transaction carried on the books of 

the relevant Derivatives Clearing Organization, without such transaction having to be 

executed pursuant to the methods required in CFTC Regulation 37.9(a)(2). The 

Company may also permit the original counterparties (or, if the wrong legal entity was 

assigned as a counterparty to the original transaction, the intended counterparties) to 

enter into a prearranged transaction that corrects the errors in the original transaction, 

without such transaction having to be executed pursuant to the methods required in 

CFTC Regulation 37.9(a)(2). Any transactions executed pursuant to this Rule 526(a)(2) 

must be executed and submitted for clearing not later than three days after the original, 

erroneous transaction was executed.

(3) No Participant, Authorized Trader or Customer or prospective Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Customer may enforce a Breakage Agreement with another 

Participant, Authorized Trader or Customer, or require such an agreement as a condition 

to trading with such other Participant, Authorized Trader or Customer on or pursuant to 

the Rules in respect of a Cleared Contract.

(a) (b) Company Authority.

(1) TheNotwithstanding any other provision of this Rule 526, the Company has

the authority to adjust trade prices or cancel (bust) trades when such action is necessary 

to mitigate market-disrupting events caused by the improper or erroneous use of the 

Trading System or by a malfunction or other technical error in the Trading System.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Rule 526, the Company may 

adjust trade prices or bust any trade if the Company determines that allowing the trade to 

stand as executed may have a material, adverse effect on the integrity of the market. The 

Company may consider any relevant information, including, but not limited to, the last 

trade price of the Swap, a more recent price for a different maturity date, the price of the 

same or related Swap established in another venue or another market and the market 

conditions at the time of the trade.

(b) (c) Review of Central Limit Order Book Trades.
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(1) General. The Company may determine to review a central limit order book 

trade based on its independent analysis of market activity or upon request for review by a 

Participant or Authorized Trader. A request for review must be made within fifteen (15) 

minutes of the execution of such trade.

(2) Discretion of the Company. The Company shall determine whether or not a 

central limit order book trade will be subject to review. In the absence of a timely request 

for review, during volatile market conditions, upon the release of significant news, or in 

any other circumstance in which the Company deems it to be appropriate, the Company 

may determine, in its sole discretion, that a trade shall not be subject to review.

(3) Alerts. Upon deciding to review a central limit order book trade, the 

Company shall promptly issue an alert to all Participants and Authorized Traders via the 

Trading System or electronic mail indicating that the trade is under review.

(d) Price Adjustments and Trade Busts.

(4) (1) Company Review Procedures. In reviewing a central limit order book 

trade, the Company shall first determine whether the trade price is within the No-Bust

Range set forth in paragraph (hg). 

(5) (2) Trade Price Inside the No-Bust Range. If the Company determines that 

the price of a central limit order book trade is inside the No-Bust Range, the Company 

shall issue an alert to all Participants and Authorized Traders indicating that the trade 

shall stand.

(6) (3) Trade Price Outside the No-Bust Range. If the Company determines 

that the price of a central limit order book trade is outside the No-Bust Range, the trade 

shall be cancelled. The Company shall issue an notice regarding such cancellation. 

(7) (4) Trade Cancellations. Busted trade prices and any prices that have been 

adjusted shall be cancelled in the Company’s official record of time and sales. Trades 

that are price–adjusted shall be inserted in the time and sales record at the adjusted trade 

price. 

(8) Notifications. A decision by the Company to adjust trade prices or bust a 

trade will be made as soon as practicable, and the Company shall notify all Participants 

and Authorized Traders, the Swap Data Repository and, if applicable, the Derivatives 

Clearing Organization of any such decision.

(c) Review of RFQs.

(1) General. The Company may determine to review an RFQ upon request by 

a Participant or Authorized Trader.

(2) Discretion of the Company. The Company shall determine whether or not 

an RFQ will be subject to review. In the absence of a timely request for review, during 

volatile market conditions, upon the release of significant news, or in any other 
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circumstance in which the Company deems it to be appropriate, the Company may 

determine, in its sole discretion, that an RFQ shall not be subject to review.

(3) Alerts. Upon deciding to review an RFQ, the Company will promptly issue 

an alert to all affected Participants and/or Authorized Traders indicating that the trade is 

under review.

(4) Company Review Procedures. Once the Company has agreed to place an 

RFQ under review, the Participant or Authorized Trader requesting to cancel or adjust 

the trade shall, where it has not done so already, confirm in writing to this effect. The 

Company shall then request the other Participant or Authorized Trader involved in the 

RFQ to confirm in writing its willingness to cancel or adjust the trade.

(5) Absence of Confirmation. Where the other Participant or Authorized 

Trader involved in the RFQ does not confirm in writing its willingness to cancel or adjust 

the trade, the Company shall issue an alert to all affected Participants and/or or 

Authorized Traders indicating that the trade shall stand.

(6) Confirmation. Where the other Participant or Authorized Trader involved 

in the RFQ confirms in writing its willingness to cancel or adjust the trade, the Company 

shall cancel or adjust the trade accordingly.

(7) Trade Cancellations. Busted trade prices and any prices that have been 

adjusted shall be cancelled in the Company’s official record of time and sales. Trades 

that are price–adjusted shall be inserted in the time and sales record at the adjusted trade 

price.

(8) Notifications. A decision by the Company to adjust trade prices or bust an 

RFQ will be made as soon as practicable, and the Company shall notify the affected 

Participants and/or Authorized Traders, the Swap Data Repository and, if applicable, the 

Derivatives Clearing Organization of any such decision.

(d) (e) Prime Broker Transaction. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this 

Rule 526, a Prime Broker may request the cancellation of any Prime Broker Transaction (i) that is 

executed in excess of the limit established by the Prime Broker with respect to the Prime Broker 

Transaction, (ii) because the Prime Broker Transaction was executed by a Person that was not 

authorized by the Prime Broker, or (iii) because the Prime Broker Transaction was executed for an 

unauthorized product. The Prime Broker shall communicate such request directly to the Company 

within 48 hours after the execution of the relevant Prime Broker Transaction and indicate the 

reason for the cancellation. If the foregoing conductions are satisfied, the Company will cancel the 

Prime Broker Transaction.

(e) (f) Alternative Resolution by Agreement of Parties. Notwithstanding any other 

provision of this Rule 526, and subject to the Company’s approval, the parties to a trade may 

mutually agree to adjust the price of a trade or cancel a trade.
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(f) (g) Schedule of Administrative Fees. When the Company busts or price–adjusts a 

trade, the Participant initiating the trade bust or price–adjustment shall pay an administrative fee to 

the Company in the amount of $500 for each such occurrence. 

(g) (h) No-Bust Ranges. The price of a Swap shall be within the “no-bust range” if 

such price is not more than 10% higher or lower than the price of the last trade in such Swap or, if 

such Swap has not previously been traded on that Business Day, not more than 10% higher or 

lower than the prior Business Day’s settlement price for such Swap.

(h) (i) Any trade price adjustments or trade cancellations shall be transparent to the 

market and subject to standards that are clear, fair, and publicly available. 

(i) (j) Company Determinations Final. All determinations and decisions of the 

Company with respect to the foregoing matters shall be final.

Rule 527. Limitation of Liability: No Warranties

(a) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BELOW, AND EXCEPT IN INSTANCES IN WHICH THE 

DISCLAIMING PARTY (DEFINED BELOW) HAS BEEN FINALLY ADJUDICATED BY A COURT OF 

COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO HAVE ENGAGED IN FRAUD, GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL 

MISCONDUCT, IN WHICH CASE THE DISCLAIMING PARTY FOUND TO HAVE ENGAGED IN SUCH 

CONDUCT CANNOT AVAIL ITSELF OF THE PROTECTIONS IN THIS RULE 528, NEITHER THE COMPANY,

NOR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY, NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE MANAGERS, OFFICERS,

DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, EQUITYHOLDERS, AGENTS, CONSULTANTS, OR SERVICE PROVIDERS

(INCLUDING ANY REGULATORY SERVICES PROVIDER), NOR ANY MEMBER OF ANY COMMITTEE OR 

OTHER GOVERNING BODY OF ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY (EACH OF THE FOREGOING, AS 

APPLICABLE, THE “DISCLAIMING PARTY” AND, COLLECTIVELY, “DISCLAIMING PARTIES”), SHALL BE 

LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY LOSSES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH:

(1) ANY FAILURE, MALFUNCTION, FAULT IN DELIVERY, DELAY, OMISSION, SUSPENSION,

INACCURACY, INTERRUPTION, TERMINATION, OR ANY OTHER EVENT, IN CONNECTION WITH 

THE FURNISHING, PERFORMANCE, OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE 

ALL OR ANY PART OF THE TRADING SYSTEM OR ANY OTHER SYSTEMS AND SERVICES OF THE 

COMPANY, OR SERVICES, EQUIPMENT OR FACILITIES USED TO SUPPORT SUCH SYSTEMS AND 

SERVICES, INCLUDING ELECTRONIC ORDER ENTRY AND DELIVER, TRADING THROUGH ANY 

ELECTRONIC MEANS, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION OF MARKET DATA OR INFORMATION,

WORKSTATIONS USED BY CLEARING FIRMS, PARTICIPANTS, AUTHORIZED TRADERS, AND 

AUTHORIZED USERS, PRICE REPORTING SYSTEMS AND ANY AND ALL TERMINALS,

COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CENTRAL COMPUTERS, SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND 

FIRMWARE RELATION THERETO; OR

(2) ANY FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, FAULT IN DELIVERY, DELAY, OMISSION,

SUSPENSION, INACCURACY, INTERRUPTION OR TERMINATION, OR ANY OTHER EVENT, OF ANY 

SYSTEM OR SERVICE OF THE COMPANY, OR SERVICES, EQUIPMENT OR FACILITIES USED TO 

SUPPORT SUCH SYSTEMS OR SERVICES, CAUSED BY ANY THIRD PARTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT 

LIMITED TO, INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS AND NETWORK PROVIDERS; OR
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(3) ANY ERRORS OR INACCURACIES IN INFORMATION PROVIDED BY THE COMPANY OR 

ANY OF THE COMPANY’S SYSTEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES; OR

(4) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF ANY OF THE COMPANY’S 

SYSTEMS, SERVICES, EQUIPMENT OF FACILITIES BY ANY PERSON.

THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY WHETHER A CLAIM IS BASED 

ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENT 

MISREPRESENTATION, RESTITUTION, BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY, BREACH OF WARRANTY 

OR OTHERWISE AND WHETHER THE CLAIM IS BROUGHT DIRECTLY OR AS A THIRD PARTY 

CLAIM.

(b) THERE ARE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS PROVIDED 

BY THE COMPANY OR ANY OTHER DISCLAIMING PARTIES, RELATING TO ANY SYSTEMS OR 

SERVICES OF THE COMPANY OR SERVICES, EQUIPMENT OR FACILITIES USED TO SUPPORT SUCH 

SYSTEMS OR SERVICES, INCLUDING THE TRADING SYSTEM AND THE COMPANY HEREBY 

SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS, OVERRIDES AND EXCLUDES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED 

BY LAW, ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, OTHER 

CONTRACTUAL TERMS, REPRESENTATIONS, INDEMNITIES AND GUARANTEES WITH RESPECT 

TO THE SERVICES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, ARISING BY LAW, CUSTOM,

PRIOR ORAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENTS BY THE COMPANY OR ANY OTHER DISCLAIMING 

PARTY OR OTHERWISE (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AS TO TITLE, SATISFACTORY 

QUALITY, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, UNINTERRUPTED USE, NON-INFRINGEMENT,

TIMELINESS, TRUTHFULNESS, SEQUENCE AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS AND 

OTHER CONTRACTUAL TERMS ARISING FROM TRANSACTION USAGE, COURSE OF DEALING OR 

COURSE OF PERFORMANCE) RELATING TO ANY SYSTEMS OR SERVICES OF THE COMPANY OR 

SERVICES, EQUIPMENT OR FACILITIES USED TO SUPPORT SUCH SYSTEMS OR SERVICES,

INCLUDING THE TRADING SYSTEM.

(c) THE COMPANY’S TOTAL COMBINED AGGREGATE LIABILITIES SHALL NOT EXCEED 

$100,000 FOR ALL LOSSES FROM ALL CAUSES SUFFERED BY ALL PERSONS OR A SINGLE DAY;

$200,000 FOR ALL LOSSES SUFFERED BY ALL PERSONS FROM ALL CAUSES IN A SINGLE 

CALENDAR MONTH; AND $2,000,000 FOR ALL LOSSES FROM ALL CAUSES SUFFERED BY ALL 

PERSONS IN A SINGLE CALENDAR YEAR. If the number of allowed claims arising out of any 

failures or malfunctions on a single day or single month cannot be fully satisfied because of 

the above dollar limitations, all such claims shall be limited to a pro rata share of the 

maximum amount for the respective period. In no event shall the total combined aggregate 

liability of the disclaiming parties for all claims arising out of any failures, malfunctions, 

faults in delivery, delays, omissions, suspensions, inaccuracies, interruptions, terminations 

or any other cause in connection with the furnishing, performance, operation, maintenance, 

sue of or inability to use all or any part of any of the company’s systems or services, or 

services equipment or facilities used to support such systems or services, including the 

trading system, or the negligence of the company or any disclaiming party exceed 

2,000,000 in any given calendar year.
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(d) Under no circumstances shall the Company be liable to a Participants or any other 

Person for any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary loss or punitive 

damages of any kind, regardless of whether such liability is based on breach of contract, 

tort, strict liability, breach of warranties or otherwise, including any loss of revenue, loss of 

actual or anticipated profits, loss of contracts, loss of the use of money, loss of anticipated 

savings, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of market share, loss of goodwill, loss of 

reputation or loss of, damage to or corruption of data, however suffered or incurred, 

regardless of whether the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages 

otherwise could have been foreseen or prevented.

(e) Under no circumstances shall the Company be liable for the acts, errors or 

omissions or any third party, including any data communication service, Swap Data 

Repository or Derivatives Clearing Organization.

(f) Any dispute arising out of the use of the systems or services of the Company or 

services, equipment, or facilities used to support such systems or services, including the 

Trading System, in which one or more Disclaiming Parties is a party shall be arbitrated 

pursuant to the Rules in Chapter 8, and references in Chapter 8 to a “Participant” shall, to 

the extent relevant, be deemed for such purpose to mean and include the Disclaiming 

Parties. Any such claim against a Disclaiming Party shall be brought within two years form 

the time that a cause of action has accrued. This paragraph (f) shall in no way be construed 

to create a cause of action and shall not authorize an action that would otherwise be 

prohibited by the Rules. If for any reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds that a 

dispute is not arbitable, such dispute may be litigated only in accordance with Rule 911.

(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Rule 527, nothing in this Rule 527 

shall be deemed to relieve the Company of its obligations under the CEA or under CFTC 

Regulations.

Rule 528. Swap Data Reporting

(a) The Company will report to Reportable Swap Data for each Swap executed on or 

pursuant to the Rules to a Swap Data Repository listed in paragraph (c) as soon as technologically 

practicable following execution. The relevant Swap Data Repository shall publicly disseminate 

the information in Appendix A to Part 43 of CFTC Regulations in a consistent form and manner 

for Swaps within the same asset class. The Company may provide such Reportable Swap Data to 

Participants, Authorized Traders and Authorized Users no earlier than the time it transmits such 

information to a Swap Data Repository and in a form that does not disclose the identities, or 

otherwise facilitate identification, of the parties to the Swap.

(b) The Reporting Counterparty for each Swap executed on or pursuant to the Rules 

shall be established pursuant to CFTC Regulations. If both counterparties to a Swap executed on 

or pursuant to the Rules are equal in the hierarchy set out in CFTC Regulations, (for example, both 

are swap dealers), the Reporting Counterparty for such Swap shall be the Participant or Authorized 

Trader that is the buyer or payer (or equivalent) on the Swap.determined as follows:
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(1) With respect to a non-deliverable forward, the Reporting Counterparty is 

the counterparty selling the currency that occurs first in the 26‐letter English alphabet.

(2) With respect to a foreign currency option, the Reporting Counterparty is the 

seller of the option.

(c) The Company shall from time to time designate a Swap Data Repository in respect 

of one or more Swaps in accordance with the notice provisions of Rule 308.has designated DTCC 

Data Repository (U.S.) LLC as the Swap Data Repository to which it will report Reportable Swap 

Data for each Swap executed on or pursuant to the Rules.

(d) Each Participant, Authorized Trader and Authorized User that enters an Order or a 

Request for Quote into the Trading System shall include with each such Order or Request for 

Quote sufficient information to enable the Company to report all Reportable Swap Data pursuant 

to Parts 43 and 45 of CFTC Regulations, including the following information (to the extent such 

information is not provided by the Trading System):

(1) the legal entity identifier of such Participant or Authorized Trader, if 

available;

(2) a yes/no indication of whether such Participant or Authorized Trader is a 

swap dealer with respect to the Swap for which the Order or Request for Quote is placed;

(3) a yes/no indication of whether such Participant or Authorized Trader is a 

major swap participant with respect to the Swap for which the Order or Request for 

Quote is placed;

(4) a yes/no indication of whether such Participant or Authorized Trader is a 

financial entity;

(5) a yes/no indication of whether such Participant or Authorized Trader is a 

U.S. person; and

(6) if the Swap will be allocated:

(A) an indication that the Swap will be allocated;

(B) the legal entity identifier of the agent;

(C) an indication of whether the Swap is a post-allocation swap; and 

(D) if the Swap is a post-allocation swap, the unique swap identifier of 

the original transaction between the reporting counterparty and the agent.

Post-allocation Swaps shall be respectively effected and reported in accordance 

with the rules of the Derivatives Clearing Organization and Swap Data Repository and in 

accordance with CFTC Regulations.
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Rule 529. Updating Reportable Swap Data

Any Participant, Authorized Trader or Customer that become aware of an error or omission 

in Reportable Swap Data for a Swap executed on or pursuant to the Rules shall promptly submit 

corrected data to the Company and, if the error or omission relates to a Block Trade, the 

counterparty to such Block Trade.
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CHAPTER 6. BLOCK TRADES

Rule 601. Block Trades

(a) Block Trades shall be permitted to the extent consistent with CFTC Regulations 

and these Rules.

(b) The following shall govern Block Trades:

(1) A Block Trade must be for a quantity that is at or in excess of the applicable 

minimum block size established by the CFTC. Orders for different accounts may not be 

aggregated to achieve the minimum block size, except as permitted pursuant to 

applicable CFTC Regulations, interpretations or guidance. 

(2) Spread trades may be executed as Block Trades, provided that the quantity 

of each leg of the spread meets the minimum quantity for each respective maturity.

(3) A Participant or Authorized Trader must receive instructions from a 

Customer or obtain the Customer’s prior consent in writing before entering into a Block 

Trade with that Customer.

(4) A Block Trade may only be executed pursuant to the Rules and Company 

Requirements and reported to the Company if both counterparties to the trade are 

Participants, Authorized Traders or Customers of Participants or Authorized Traders.

(5) Both parties to a Block Trade executed in accordance with the provisions of 

this Chapter 6 shall report the Block Trade to the Company as soon as technologically 

practicable following the execution of such Block Trade, but not later than the time 

required under the Rules. Such report must include the information required by the 

Company.

(6) The Company shall transmit all required Block Trade data to a Swap Data 

Repository as soon as technologically practicable following receipt of such data by the 

Company.

Rule 602. Time-Stamp Requirements for Block Trades

All Block Trades executed in accordance with Chapter 6 are subject to the following 

requirements:

(a) the record of each Block Trade maintained by Participants to the Block Trade 

pursuant to Rule 401(a)(8) shall include an electronic time-stamp reflecting the date and time of 

execution; and

(b) the Company shall time-stamp the transaction and pricing data with the date and 

time (to the nearest second) that the Company receives such data from the party reporting the 

Block Trade and the date and time when the Company transmits such data to a Swap Data 

Repository. 
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CHAPTER 7. DISCIPLINARY RULES

Rule 701. General

(a) All Persons that are subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall be subject to this 

Chapter 7 if such Person is alleged to have violated, to have aided and abetted a violation, to be 

violating, or to be about to violate, any Rule.

(b) The Company, through the Company and the Disciplinary Panel, will conduct 

Disciplinary Proceedings. The Company will maintain an enforcement staff that will prosecute 

violations in accordance with this Chapter 7. The enforcement staff shall not include Participants, 

Authorized Traders, Authorized Users or Persons whose interests conflict with their enforcement 

duties. Members of the enforcement staff shall not operate under the direct control of any person 

with Trading Privileges. No member of the Market Regulation Department may be a Review Panel 

Member, Disciplinary Panel Member or Appeal Panel Member. Any reference to the Company in 

this Chapter 7 shall also be a reference to the enforcement staff.

(c) No Company Official, Director or Officer will interfere with or attempt to influence 

the process or resolution of any Disciplinary Proceeding, except to the extent provided under the 

Rules with respect to a Disciplinary Proceeding in which an Officer or Company Official is a 

member of the enforcement staff or a Director is a member of the relevant Disciplinary Panel or 

Appeal Panel. 

(d) All Persons subject to the Company’s jurisdiction must cooperate with the 

Company in connection with (i) any inquiry or investigation by the Market Regulation 

Department, or (ii) any Disciplinary Proceeding. No such Person may knowingly or intentionally 

impede or delay any Disciplinary Proceeding or any inquiry or investigation by the Market 

Regulation Department. 

(e) A Person who acts in violation of Rule 701(d) may be subject to summary 

suspension or other summary action in accordance with Rule 717.

(f) A Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User, Customer or other Person 

subject to the Company’s jurisdiction may be represented in a Disciplinary Proceeding by legal 

counsel or any other representative of its choosing at its own expense.

(g) Liability.

(1) The Company may hold a Participant liable for, and impose sanctions 

against such Participant, for such Participant’s own acts and omissions that constitute a 

violation of these Rules as well as for the acts and omissions of (i) such Authorized 

Trader’s Authorized Users, and Customers or (ii) a Person using the User ID of any of 

such Participant’s Authorized Users, in each case, that constitute a violation as if such 

violation were that of the Participant.

(2) The Company may hold an Authorized Trader liable for, and impose 

sanctions against such Authorized Trader, for such Authorized Trader’s own acts and 

omissions that constitute a violation of these Rules as well as or for the acts and 
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omissions of (i) such Participant’s Authorized Traders, Authorized Users, and Customers 

or (ii) a Person using the User ID of any of such Authorized Trader’s Authorized Users in 

each case, that constitute a violation as if such violation were that of the Authorized 

Trader.

(3) The Company may hold an Authorized User liable for, and impose 

sanctions against such Authorized User, for such Authorized User’s own acts and 

omissions that constitute a violation of these Rules, as well as or for the acts and 

omissions of (i) a Person using such Authorized User’s User ID, or (ii) any other agent or 

representative of such Authorized User, in each case, that constitute a violation as if such 

violation were that of the Authorized User.

(4) The Company may hold a Customer liable for, and impose sanctions 

against such Customer, for such Customer’s own acts and omissions that constitute a 

violation of these Rules, as well as for the acts and omissions of any agent or 

representative of such Customer that constitute a violation as if such violation were that 

of the Customer.

(5) The Company will sanction Customers for Rule violations, and may not 

sanction the sponsoring Participant that provided access to the Customer instead of the 

Customer. In the event that both the sponsoring Participant and Customer have violated 

the Rules, the Company may sanction both the sponsoring Participant and Customer. 

(h) Ex Parte Communications.

(1) A Person subject to a Disciplinary Proceeding (and any legal counsel or 

other representative of such Person) and the Market Regulation Department (and any 

legal counsel or other representative of the Market Regulation Department) shall not 

knowingly make or cause to be made an ex parte communication relevant to the merits of 

a Disciplinary Proceeding to any member of the Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel or the 

Appeal Panel hearing such proceeding or appeal, as applicable.

(2) Members of the Review Panel, Disciplinary Panel shall not knowingly 

make or cause to be made an ex parte communication relevant to the merits of a 

Disciplinary Proceeding to any Person subject to such proceeding, the Company or any 

legal counsel or other representative of such Person or the Company.

(3) Any Person who receives makes or learns of any communication that is 

prohibited by this Rule shall promptly give notice of such communication and any 

response thereto to the Company and all parties to the Disciplinary Proceeding to which 

the communication relates.

(4) A Person shall not be deemed to have violated this Rule if the Person 

refuses an attempted communication concerning the merits of a Disciplinary Proceeding 

as soon as it becomes apparent the communication concerns the merits.
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Rule 702. Inquiries and Investigation

(a) The Company shall make such inquires as it deems necessary or appropriate to 

monitor Participants’ and other Persons’ compliance with the Rules. The Company shall 

commence an investigation, as provided in paragraph (b), if it has reason to believe that the Rules 

have been or may be violated or upon the receipt of a request from the CFTC. Any member of the 

Market Regulation Department must promptly recuse himself or herself and notify the Chief 

Compliance Officer if such member has a material conflict of interest with respect to any potential 

respondent in an Investigation Report.

(b) Persons subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall assist the Company and the 

Regulatory Services Provider in any investigation into potential violations of the Rules and the 

Company or the Regulatory Services Provider may require a Participant or Authorized Trader to 

furnish such information concerning the such Person’s business that is subject to the Rules and 

Company Requirements as the Company may deem necessary to enable the Company to perform 

its obligations under Applicable Law, including information relating to Swaps and related 

financial instruments, and information requested by a Government Agency, Self-Regulatory 

Organization, Derivatives Clearing Organization or service provider or licensor relating to the 

Company’s business as a swap execution facility and/or the Company’s compliance with 

Applicable Law. The Company or Regulatory Services Provider may require such Person to 

produce documents, to answer questions from the Company, and/or to appear in connection with 

an investigation. 

(c) The Company will investigate apparent violations of the Rules of which it becomes 

aware. The Company will commence an investigation upon the receipt of a request from CFTC 

staff or upon the discovery or receipt of information by the Company that, in the judgment of the 

Company, indicates a reasonable basis for finding that a violation has occurred or will occur. The 

Company will determine the nature and scope of its inquiries and investigations in its sole 

discretion and will function independently of the commercial interests of the Company.

(d) The Company has the authority to:

(1) initiate and conduct inquiries and investigations;

(2) prepare Investigation Reports and make recommendations concerning 

initiating Disciplinary Proceedings; and 

(3) prosecute alleged violations within the Company’s disciplinary jurisdiction.

(e) Each Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction is obligated to appear and testify 

and respond in writing to requests for information from the Company and to produce books, 

records, papers, documents or other tangible evidence in such Person’s possession, custody or 

control within the time period required by the Company.

Rule 703. Reports of Investigations

(a) The Company will maintain a log of all investigations and their disposition. The 

Company will prepare a written report of each investigation (the “Investigation Report”), 
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regardless of whether the evidence gathered during an investigation forms a reasonable basis to 

believe that a violation within the Company’s jurisdiction has occurred or is about to occur or 

whether the evidence gathered results in closing the matter without further action or through 

summary action.

(b) The Investigation Report shall include the reasons for initiating the investigation 

(including a summary of the complaint, if any), all relevant facts and evidence gathered, Company 

staff’s analysis and conclusions, and the recommendation of the Company. For each potential 

respondent, the Company will recommend either:

(1) closing the investigation without further action;

(2) resolving the investigation through an informal disposition, including the 

issuance of a warning letter. An informal disposition (including the issuance of a 

warning letter) shall not constitute a finding of a violation or a sanction;

(3) summary action;

(4) the preparation and service of a notice of charges for instituting a 

Disciplinary Proceeding; or

(5) a negotiated settlement.

(c) The Investigation Report shall be provided to the Chief Compliance Officer for a 

determination as to whether the Investigation Report is complete.

(d) Each Company investigation shall be completed in a timely manner and, absent 

mitigating factors, no later than twelve (12) months after the date that an investigation is opened. 

Mitigating factors that may justify an investigation taking longer than twelve (12) months to 

complete include the complexity of the investigation, the number of potential wrongdoers, the 

number of potential violations to be investigated and the volume of documents and data to be 

examined and analyzed.

Rule 704. Opportunity to Respond

(a) After completing its Investigation Report, the Company shall, where applicable and 

with the authorization of the Review Panel, notify each potential respondent that the Company has 

recommended formal disciplinary charges against the potential respondent.

(b) The Company shall allow a potential respondent to submit a written statement 

explaining why a Disciplinary Proceeding should not be instituted and/or one or more of the 

potential charges should not be brought. The potential respondent shall submit any written 

statement within the time limit established by the Company. 

Rule 705. Review of Investigation Reports

(a) After the completion of the Investigation Report and the receipt of any submission 

made by the proposed respondent pursuant to Rule 704(b), the Chief Compliance Officer shall 
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decide whether to refer the Investigation Report to the Market Regulation Department for further 

review or to establish a Review Panel pursuant to Rule 710. The Market Regulation Department or 

Review Panel, as appropriate, shall, within thirty (30) days, take one of the following actions:

(1) If the Market Regulation Department or Review Panel, as appropriate, 

determines that additional investigation or evidence is needed, it shall promptly direct the 

Company to conduct such further investigation;

(2) If the Market Regulation Department or Review Panel, as appropriate, 

determines that no reasonable basis exists for finding a violation or that prosecution is 

otherwise unwarranted, it shall direct that no further action be taken. Such determination 

shall be in writing, and shall include a written statement setting forth the facts and 

analysis supporting the decision; or

(3) If the Market Regulation Department or Review Panel, as appropriate, 

determines that a reasonable basis exists for finding a violation and adjudication is 

warranted, it shall direct that the Person alleged to have committed the violation be 

served with a notice of charges and proceed in accordance with this Chapter 7 or to be 

issued a warning letter meeting the requirements set forth in Rule 714(b)(1).

(b) A failure of the Market Regulation Department or Review Panel, as appropriate, to 

act within the time prescribed in paragraph (a) shall not prevent the Chief Compliance Officer 

from issuing a warning letter if he or she deems it appropriate to do so. The Chief Compliance 

Officer shall inform the Regulatory Oversight Committee of any such failure of the Market 

Regulation Department or Review Panel, as appropriate, to act.

Rule 706. Notice of Charges

(a) If the Market Regulation Department or Review Panel, as appropriate, authorizes 

Disciplinary Proceedings pursuant to Rule 705(a)(3), it will prepare, and serve in accordance with 

Rule 707, a notice of charges.

(b) A notice of charges shall:

(1) state the acts, practices or conduct in which the respondent is alleged to 

have engaged;

(2) state each specific Rule alleged to have been violated or about to be 

violated;

(3) advise the respondent of its right to a hearing;

(4) advise the respondent that it has the right to be represented by legal counsel 

or any other representative of its choosing in all succeeding stages of the disciplinary 

process (other than a Director, Officer or employee of the Company, any member of the 

Disciplinary Panel or any person substantially related to the Disciplinary Proceedings 

such as material witness or other respondent);
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(5) state the period of time within which the respondent may file an answer to, 

and request a hearing on, the notice of charges which will, except for good cause, not be 

less than twenty (20) days after service of the notice of charges;

(6) advise the respondent that any failure to request a hearing within the period 

stated, except for good cause, will be deemed to constitute a waiver of the right to a 

hearing; and

(7) advise the respondent that any allegation in the notice of charges that is not 

expressly denied will be deemed to be admitted.

Rule 707. Service of Notice

Any notice of charges or other documents to be served pursuant to this Chapter 7 may be 

served upon the respondent, and service shall be deemed complete, upon: (i) deposit in the United 

States mail, postage prepaid, via registered or certified mail; (ii) delivery of the same to a 

recognized courier service, addressed to the respondent at the respondent’s last known place of 

business or residence; or (iii) transmittal by electronic mail to the electronic mail address as it 

appears on the books and records of the Company, if followed by a hard copy of the document sent 

promptly thereafter by United States mail, postage prepaid, via registered or certified mail.

Rule 708. Answer to Notice of Charges

(a) If the respondent determines to answer a notice of charges, the respondent shall file 

its answer within twenty (20) days after being served with such notice, or within such other 

reasonable time period as may be determined by the Chief Compliance Officer.

(b) To answer a notice of charges, the respondent must in writing:

(1) specify the allegations that the respondent denies or admits;

(2) specify the allegations that the respondent does not have sufficient 

information to either deny or admit;

(3) specify any specific facts that contradict the notice of charges;

(4) specify any affirmative defenses to the notice of charges; 

(5) sign and serve the answer on the Chief Compliance Officer; and

(6) if applicable, request a hearing before a Disciplinary Panel.

(c) Any failure by the respondent to timely serve an answer to a notice of charges will 

be deemed to be an admission to the allegations in such notice and a waiver of any right to a 

hearing before a Disciplinary Panel and to appeal any sanction that may be imposed. Any failure 

by the respondent to answer one or more allegations in a notice of charges will be deemed to be an 

admission of that allegation or those allegations. Any allegation in a notice of charges that the 
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respondent fails to expressly deny will be deemed to be admitted. A general denial by the 

respondent, without more, will not satisfy the requirements of paragraph (b).

(d) If a respondent admits or fails to specifically deny any of the allegations in the 

notice of charges, the Disciplinary Panel shall find that the violations set forth in such allegations 

have been committed and shall impose a sanction for such violations. The Disciplinary Panel shall 

promptly notify the respondent in writing of any sanction imposed pursuant to this Rule 708 and 

advise the respondent that the respondent may request, in writing, a hearing on such sanction 

within twenty (20) days of respondent being served with such notice. Any failure by the 

respondent to timely request a hearing with respect to a notice of sanctions will be deemed to be an 

acceptance of the sanctions in such notice and a waiver of any right to appeal such sanctions. 

Rule 709. Settlements

(a) A respondent or potential respondent may at any time propose in writing an offer of 

settlement related to anticipated or instituted Disciplinary Proceedings. All offers of settlement 

shall be submitted to the Chief Compliance Officer.

(b) A respondent or potential respondent may offer to settle Disciplinary Proceedings 

without admitting or denying the findings contained in the order of the Disciplinary Proceedings

but must accept the jurisdiction of the Company over it and over the subject matter of the 

proceedings, consent to the entry of the findings and sanctions imposed and waive its right to 

notice, opportunity for a hearing and any and all right to review and appeal under Applicable Law.

(c) If a respondent or potential respondent submits an offer of settlement in accordance 

with paragraph (a) above, the Chief Compliance Officer will forward the offer, together with his or 

her recommendation on whether to accept or reject the offer, to the Disciplinary Panel. The 

respondent or potential respondent may withdraw such offer of settlement at any time before 

acceptance by the Disciplinary Panel, but may not withdraw such offer at any time after 

acceptance by the Disciplinary Panel.

(d) The Disciplinary Panel may accept the offer of settlement, but may not alter the 

terms of a settlement offer unless the respondent or potential respondent agrees. If an offer of 

settlement is accepted by the Disciplinary Panel, it shall issue a written decision specifying:

(1) the Rule violations it has reason to believe were committed, including the 

basis or reasons for its conclusions; 

(2) any sanction to be imposed, which must include full Customer restitution 

where Customer harm is demonstrated; and

(3) if applicable, that the respondent has accepted the sanctions imposed 

without either admitting or denying the Rule violations.

(e) In the event that the Disciplinary Panel accepts an offer of settlement without the 

agreement of the Company, the decision must adequately support such acceptance. Upon issuance 

of the written decision in accordance with paragraph (d), the respondent’s submission of the offer 
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will be deemed to constitute a waiver of any right to notice, the opportunity for a hearing and 

review and appeal under the Rules.

(f) If the offer of settlement of a respondent or potential respondent is not accepted by 

the Disciplinary Panel or for any other reason fails to become final, the matter will proceed as if the 

offer had not been made and the offer and all documents relating to it will not become part of the 

record. Neither a respondent or potential respondent nor the Company may use an unaccepted 

offer of settlement in any manner at a hearing of, or appeal from, Disciplinary Proceedings.

Rule 710. Review Panel; Disciplinary Panel

(a) A Review Panel, if established pursuant to Rule 705(a), is responsible for 

reviewing a completed Investigation Report and for determining whether a reasonable basis exists 

for finding a violation of the Rules and authorizing the issuance of a notice of charges. The 

Disciplinary Panel shall conduct hearings in connection with any Disciplinary Proceedings (except 

for summary impositions of fines pursuant to Rule 716), to make findings, render decision, and 

impose sanctions pursuant to this Chapter 7.

(b) Each Review Panel and Disciplinary Panel for a Disciplinary Proceeding (other 

than a Summary Proceeding) shall by composed of three (3) individuals who have been appointed 

by the Chief Compliance Officer including at least one (1) member who would meet the 

requirements of Rule 201(d)(1)-Rule 201(d)(5) (a “Public Member”). To the greatest extent 

practicable, the remaining two (2) members shall be from diverse industry participant groups so 

that no group or class of industry participants dominates or exercises a disproportionate influence 

on the Review Panel or Disciplinary Panel, as applicable. If required by CFTC rules, the chair of 

each Review Panel and Disciplinary Panel shall not be disqualified from serving as a Public 

Director. No employee of the Company or individual involved in adjudicating any other stage of 

the same proceeding may serve on a Review Panel or Disciplinary Panel, as applicable. Subject to 

paragraphs (c) and (d), the appointment of a member of a Review Panel or the Disciplinary Panel 

will not expire until the relevant Disciplinary Proceedings are completed.

(c) If an individual selected is an Interested Person or if a member of the Panel later 

becomes an Interested Person, a replacement for such individual shall be selected by the Chief 

Compliance Officer. Except as may otherwise be provided in the Rules, the Board may at any time 

remove any member of a Panel for cause.

(d) Within ten (10) days of being notified of the appointment of the Panel, a respondent 

may seek to disqualify any individual named to the Panel for the reasons identified in Rule 206 by 

serving written notice on the Chief Compliance Officer. By not timely filing a request for 

disqualification, the respondent will be deemed to have waived any objection to the composition of 

a Panel. The Chief Executive Officer will decide the merits of any request for disqualification 

within his or her sole discretion. Any such decision shall be final and not subject to appeal.

(e) All information, records, materials and documents provided to a Panel and all 

deliberations, testimony, information, records, materials and documents related thereto shall be 

treated as non-public and confidential and shall not be disclosed, except as necessary to further a 

Company investigation or as otherwise required by law. No individual shall serve on a Panel 
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unless that individual has agreed in writing that he or she will not publish, divulge, or make known 

in any manner facts or information regarding the business of any Person or other information 

which may come to his or her attention in his or her official capacity as a member of the Panel, 

except when reporting to the Board or to a Committee concerned with such information or to the 

Company, when requested by the CFTC or other Government Agency, or when compelled to 

testify in any judicial or administrative proceeding.

Rule 711. Respondent’s Review of Evidence

(a) Prior to the commencement of a hearing, each respondent will be given the 

opportunity, subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), to review all books, records, documents, papers, 

transcripts of testimony and other tangible evidence in the possession or under the control of the 

Company that the Company will use to support the allegations and proposed sanctions in the notice 

of charges or which the chair of the Disciplinary Panel otherwise deems relevant to the 

Disciplinary Proceedings. Unless determined otherwise by the chair of the Disciplinary Panel, all 

such requests for access to information must be made not less than ten (10) days prior to the 

scheduled hearing date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a respondent shall not have the right to 

review, and the Company shall have no obligation to disclose, information that (i) is protected by 

attorney-client privilege or attorney work product; (ii) was prepared by an employee of the 

Company but will not be offered in evidence in the Disciplinary Proceedings; (iii) may disclose a 

technique or guideline used in examinations, investigations or enforcement proceedings; or (iv) 

discloses the identity of a confidential source.

(b) The Company may redact, edit or code data and information before furnishing it to 

the respondent if books, records, documents, papers, transcripts of testimony or other tangible 

evidence that would otherwise be required to be provided to a respondent contain data or 

information that could adversely affect the competitive position of the Person providing such data 

or information or if such data or information might compromise other investigations being 

conducted by the Company. For purposes of this Rule 711, data and information that could 

adversely affect a Person’s competitive position include positions in Swaps, trading strategies, the 

identity of any Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User and the finances of the Person 

providing the information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not redact, edit or 

code competitive or investigative data or information contained in documents in a manner that 

materially impairs the respondent’s ability to defend against the allegations or proposed sanctions 

in the notices of charges and shall provide the respondent with reasonable access to the 

information and portions of the documents that the Company intends to rely on to support the 

allegations or proposed sanctions in the notice of charges.

(c) The respondent shall treat as confidential all data and information provided to it 

pursuant to this Rule 711, and shall not disclose any such data or information, except as necessary 

to the respondent’s defense of notice of charges and any appeal of the decision of the Disciplinary 

Panel.

Rule 712. Hearings

(a) All Disciplinary Proceedings (except for summary impositions of fines pursuant to 

Rule 716) will be conducted at a fair hearing before members of the Disciplinary Panel, which will 
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be convened promptly after reasonable notice to each respondent. Parties to a Disciplinary 

Proceeding shall include each respondent and the Company.

(b) At a hearing conducted in connection with any Disciplinary Proceeding, the 

Company will present its case supporting the allegations and proposed sanctions in the notice of 

charges to the Disciplinary Panel. If a respondent has timely filed an answer to the notice of 

charges in accordance with Rule 708, the respondent shall be entitled to attend and participate in 

the hearing. All hearings will be conducted privately and confidentially. 

(c) At a hearing conducted in connection with Disciplinary Proceedings, the Company 

and each respondent entitled to participate in such hearing may:

(1) present evidence and facts determined relevant and admissible by the chair 

of the Disciplinary Panel;

(2) call and examine witnesses; and

(3) cross-examine witnesses called by other parties.

(d) If the respondent fails to file an answer, has filed a general denial, or if any or all of 

the allegations in the notice of charges are not expressly denied in the respondent’s answer, the 

chair of the Disciplinary Panel may limit evidence concerning any allegations not expressly denied 

in determining the sanctions to impose. If, in such a case, the respondent appears at the hearing, 

the respondent may not participate in the hearing with respect to such allegations that the 

respondent failed to properly deny (unless such hearing is a hearing conducted pursuant to Rule 

708(d)) by calling or cross-examining witnesses, testifying in defense, presenting evidence 

concerning the notice of charges or otherwise, unless the respondent’s failure to properly deny the 

allegations was solely the result of respondent’s failure to timely file an answer and the 

Disciplinary Panel determines that the respondent had a compelling reason for failing to timely file 

an answer. If the Disciplinary Panel determines that the respondent had a compelling reason for 

failing to timely file an answer, the Disciplinary Panel shall adjourn the hearing and direct the 

respondent to promptly file a written answer in accordance with Rule 708.

(e) Any Person entitled, or required or called upon, to attend a hearing before a 

Disciplinary Panel pursuant to paragraph (c) above shall be given reasonable notice, confirmed in

writing, specifying the date, time and place of the hearing. All Participants, Authorized Traders 

and Authorized Users who are called as witnesses are required to appear at the hearing and, where 

applicable, produce evidence. The Company shall make reasonable efforts to secure the presence 

of other Persons called as witnesses whose testimony would be relevant (as determined by the 

chair of the Disciplinary Panel). A Disciplinary Panel may appoint an expert to attend any hearing 

and assist in deliberations if such expert is made subject to appropriate confidentiality 

requirements.

(f) The Company will arrange for any hearing conducted in connection with 

Disciplinary Proceedings to be recorded verbatim, or substantially verbatim, in a manner capable 

of accurate transcription. If the respondent requests a copy of all or portions of the record, the 

chair of the Disciplinary Panel may require the respondent to pay the costs of preparing such 

transcript.
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(g) If the respondent has requested a hearing, a copy of the hearing shall be made and 

shall become a part of the record of the proceeding. The record shall not be required to be 

transcribed unless:

(1) The transcript is requested by CFTC staff or the respondent;

(2) The decision is appealed pursuant to the rules of the Company; or

(3) The decision is reviewed by the CFTC pursuant to Section 8c of the Act 

orPartor Part 9 of CFTC Regulation. In all other instances, a summary record of a hearing 

is permitted.

(h) The chair of the Disciplinary Panel may continue, adjourn or otherwise conduct the 

hearing as he or she may deem appropriate. The chair of the Disciplinary Panel will determine all 

procedural and evidentiary matters, including the admissibility and relevance of any evidence 

proffered. In determining procedural and evidentiary matters, the chair of the Disciplinary Panel 

may be counseled by the Company’s legal advisors and shall not be bound by evidentiary or 

procedural rules of law. Once admitted during the hearing, the Disciplinary Panel may consider, 

and attach the weight it believes appropriate to, evidence or other materials. 

(i) Except for procedural and evidentiary matters decided by the chair of the 

Disciplinary Panel pursuant to paragraph (h) and Rule 711, unless each respondent otherwise 

consents, the entire Disciplinary Panel must be present in person during the entire hearing and 

must be present, in person or by telephone, during any related deliberations.

(j) The Disciplinary Panel may summarily impose sanctions on any Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Authorized User who impedes or delays or substantially disrupts the 

progress of a hearing.

Rule 713. Decision of Disciplinary Panel

(a) As promptly as reasonable following a hearing, the Disciplinary Panel will issue a 

written order rendering its decision based on the weight of the evidence contained in the record of 

the Disciplinary Proceedings. A decision by a majority of the Disciplinary Panel will constitute 

the decision of the Disciplinary Panel. 

(b) The Company will provide a copy of the order of the Disciplinary Panel to the 

respondent and the Company not later than 30 days after the rendering of a final decision. The 

order will include:

(1) the notice of charges or summary of the allegations;

(2) the answer, if any, or a summary of the answer filed by the respondent;

(3) a brief summary of the evidence introduced at the hearing or, where 

appropriate, incorporation by reference of the Investigation Report;
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(4) findings of fact and conclusions concerning each allegation, including a 

complete explanation of the evidentiary and other basis for such findings and conclusions 

with respect to each allegation;

(5) each specific Rule that the respondent is found to have violated; and

(6) the imposition of sanctions, if any, pursuant to Rule 714, including the basis 

for such sanctions and the effective date of each sanction.

(c) A Disciplinary Panel shall be dissolved automatically when it has decided the 

matter for which it was appointed and has notified the respondent and the Chief Compliance 

Officer in writing of its decision.

(d) Unless a timely notice of appeal is filed pursuant to Rule 715, the order of the 

Disciplinary Panel will become final upon the expiration of twenty (20) days after the order is 

served on the respondent and the Company.

Rule 714. Sanctions

(a) In the event that a respondent is found in accordance with this Chapter 7 to have 

violated or to have attempted to violate a Rule, or if sanctions are imposed pursuant to an accepted 

settlement offer, the Disciplinary Panel shall impose such sanctions as it deems appropriate, 

commensurate with the violations committed and sufficient to deter recidivism or similar 

violations by other Participants, Authorized Traders, and Authorized Users and Clearing Firms. 

Any such sanctions shall take into account the respondent’s disciplinary history (if any) and, in the 

event of demonstrated customer harm, shall include full customer restitution.

(b) The Company may impose one or more of the following sanctions or remedies:

(1) A warning letter, provided that no more than one (1) warning letter may be 

issued to the same respondent found to have committed the same rule violation within a 

rolling twelve (12) month period;

(2) censure;

(3) limitation, restriction or qualification of Trading Privileges, ability to 

otherwise access the Trading System, and/or other activities, functions or operations;

(4) suspension, for a period not to exceed twelve (12) months, of Trading 

Privileges and/or ability to otherwise access the Trading System;

(5) termination of Trading Privileges and/or ability to otherwise access the 

Trading System;

(6) expulsion;

(7) a fine;
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(8) restitution or disgorgement; or

(9) any other sanction or remedy deemed to be appropriate.

(c) The Company may impose a fine of up to $100,000 for each violation of a Rule. A 

Participant will be responsible for paying any fine or other amount imposed on, but not paid by, 

any of its Authorized Traders or Authorized Users.

(d) A Disciplinary Panel may order a respondent to pay some or all of the costs 

associated with the Disciplinary Proceedings, including costs that the Disciplinary Panel believes 

were unnecessarily caused by the respondent. Costs may include costs associated with the inquiry 

or investigation, the prosecution by the Company or Regulatory Services Provider, legal and 

professional assistance, the conduct of the hearing, and administrative and other expenses incurred 

by the Disciplinary Panel.

Rule 715. Appeal From Disciplinary Panel Decisions and Summary Actions (Other 

Than Summary Impositions of Fines)

(a) In the event that a respondent is found, pursuant to Rule 713, to have violated or to 

have attempted to violate a Rule: 

(1) such respondent may appeal the decision within twenty (20) days of 

receiving the order of the Disciplinary Panel by filing a written notice of appeal with the 

Chief Compliance Officer.

(2) the Market Regulation Department may appeal all or any part of a decision 

of the Disciplinary Panel, including any sanctions that may or may not have been 

imposed by the Disciplinary Panel, within twenty (20) days of receiving the order of the 

Disciplinary Panel by filing a notice of appeal with the Chief Compliance Officer; and/or

(3) the Appeal Panel may, on its own initiative, order a review of any aspect of 

a decision by the Disciplinary Panel within twenty (20) days of the order of the 

Disciplinary Panel by filing a notice of appeal with the Chief Compliance Officer.

(b) While an appeal is pending, the effect of the order of the Disciplinary Panel 

(including any sanctions, remedies or costs imposed thereby) shall be suspended, except with 

respect to any denial or limit on Trading Privileges or ability to otherwise access the Company’s 

Trading System. 

(c) The notice of appeal must state in writing the grounds for appeal, including the 

findings of fact, conclusions or sanctions to which the respondent objects. A respondent may 

appeal the order of the Disciplinary Panel on the grounds that:

(1) the order was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion or not in 

accordance with the Rules; or

(2) the order exceeded the authority or jurisdiction of the Disciplinary Panel, 

the Chief Compliance Officer or the Company.
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(d) The Company will forward copies of any notice of appeal received by it to all 

parties to the hearing before the Disciplinary Panel except the appellant. On or before the 

twentieth (20th) day after filing a notice of appeal, the appellant must file with the Chief 

Compliance Officer and serve on all other parties a brief supporting the notice of appeal and 

documents supporting the brief. On or before the twentieth (20th) day after the date on which the 

appellant serves supporting brief, the appellee must file and serve its brief in opposition with the 

Company. On or before the tenth (10th) day after the date on which the appellee serves its brief in 

opposition, the appellant must file and serve a brief in reply with the Company.

(e) In connection with any appeal, the Company will furnish to the Chief Compliance 

Officer and to the respondent/appellant a transcript of the hearing, any exhibits introduced at the 

hearing, the notice of appeal and briefs filed to support and oppose the appeal.

(f) An Appeal Panel shall be composed of three (3) individuals that have been 

appointed by the Chief Compliance Officer, at least one (1) of whom shall be a Public Member. 

To the greatest extent practicable, the remaining two (2) members shall be from diverse industry 

participant groups so that no group or class of industry participants dominates or exercises a 

disproportionate influence on the Appeal Panel. If required by CFTC rules, the Appeal Panel chair 

shall not be disqualified from serving as a Public Director. No individual shall be selected to serve 

on the Appeal Panel for any Disciplinary Proceeding if such individual is an employee of the 

Company or has been involved in adjudicating any other stage of the same proceeding.

(g) If an individual selected is an Interested Person or if a member of the Appeal Panel 

later becomes an Interested Person, a replacement for such individual shall be selected by the 

Chief Compliance Officer. Except as may be otherwise provided in the Rules, the Board may at 

any time remove any member of an Appeal Panel for cause.

(h) All information, records, materials and documents provided to the Appeal Panel 

and all deliberations, testimony, information, records, materials and documents related thereto 

shall be treated as non-public and confidential and shall not be disclosed, except as necessary to 

further a Company investigation or as otherwise agreed by law. No individual shall serve on an 

Appeal Panel unless that individual has agreed in writing that he or she will not publish, divulge, or 

make known in any manner facts or information regarding the business of any Person or other 

information which may come to his attention in his official capacity as a member of the Appeal 

Panel, except when reporting to the Board or to a Committee concerned with such information or 

to the Market Regulation Department, when requested by the CFTC or other Government Agency, 

or when compelled to testify in any judicial or administrative proceeding.

(i) Within ten (10) days of being notified of the appointment of the Appeal Panel, 

either party may seek to disqualify any individual named to the Appeal Panel for the reasons 

identified in Rule 206 by serving written notice on the Chief Compliance Officer. By not timely 

filing a request for disqualification, the parties will be deemed to have waived any objection to the 

composition of an Appeal Panel. The Chair of the Regulatory Oversight Committee will decide 

the merits of any request for disqualification within his or her sole discretion. Any such decision 

shall be final and not subject to appeal.
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(j) The Appeal Panel may hold a hearing to allow parties to present oral arguments. 

Any hearing will be conducted privately and confidentially. Notwithstanding the confidentiality 

of hearings, the Appeal Panel may appoint an expert to attend any hearing and assist in the 

deliberations if such individuals agree to be subject to appropriate confidentiality agreements. In 

determining procedural and evidentiary matters, the Appeal Panel will not be bound by evidentiary 

or procedural rules or law.

(k) Except for procedural and evidentiary matters decided by the Appeal Panel 

pursuant to paragraph (j), unless such appellant otherwise consents, the entire Appeal Panel must 

be present in person during the entire appeal hearing and must be present, in person or by 

telephone, during any related deliberations.

(l) The Appeal Panel will only consider on appeal the record before the Disciplinary 

Panel, the notice of appeal, the briefs filed in support and opposition of the appeal, and any oral

arguments of the parties. The Appeal Panel may only consider new evidence when the Appeal 

Panel determines that good cause exists as to why the evidence was not introduced during the 

disciplinary proceeding.

(m) After completing its review, the Appeal Panel may affirm, modify or reverse any 

order of the Disciplinary Panel under appeal, in whole or in part, including increasing, decreasing 

or eliminating any sanction or remedy imposed, imposing any other sanction or remedy authorized 

by the Rules, remanding the matter to the same or a different Disciplinary Panel for further 

disciplinary proceedings, or ordering a new hearing.

(n) As promptly as reasonably possible following its review, the Appeal Panel will 

issue a written decision based on the weight of the evidence before the Appeal Panel. The and 

provide a copy of such decision to the parties not later than 30 days after the rendering of a final 

decision. The written decision of the Appeal Panel shall meet the informational requirements of 

Rule 713(b) and shall become effective no sooner than 15 days after written notice of the decision 

is delivered to the parties.

(o) The Appeal Panel’s written order will be the final action of the Company and will 

not be subject to appeal within the Company.

Rule 716. Summary Imposition of Fines

(a) The Chief Compliance Officer may summarily fine a Participant, Authorized 

Trader, Authorized User or Customer for failing to make timely and accurate submissions to the 

Company of notices, reports or other information required by the Rules or to keep books and 

records required by the Rules.

(b) The Company, acting on behalf of the Chief Compliance Officer, will give notice 

of any fine imposed pursuant to this Rule 716 to each Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized 

User or Customer subject thereto. The notice will specify the violations of the Rules for which the 

fine is being imposed and the amount of the fine. The Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized 

User or Customer as the case may be, shall pay or cause the payment of the fine within twenty (20) 

days of the date of notice. 
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(c) The Company shall establish, and from time to time revise, schedules of fines to be 

imposed pursuant to this Rule 716. Such schedules of fines shall provide for progressively larger 

fines for recurring violations, with the maximum fine not to exceed $5,000. Summary imposition 

of fines pursuant to this Rule 716 will not preclude the Company from bringing any other action 

against the Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User or Customer, as the case may be. The 

following schedule lists the recommended summary fines that the Chief Compliance Officer may 

impose:

Type of Violation

Fine per Occurrence (within a rolling 

12-month period)

First 

Violation

Second 

Violation

Third 

Violation

Failing to make timely and accurate 

submissions to the Company of notices, reports 

or other information required by the Rules

$1,000 $1,250 $2,000

Failing to keep books and records required by 

the Rules

$1,000 $1,250 $2,000

(d) Appeals of the summary imposition of fines imposed pursuant to this Rule 716 

shall be heard by the Appeal Panel. The appellant shall be advised of its right to a prompt hearing 

before the Appeal Panel and its right to be represented, at its own cost, by legal counsel or any 

other representative at such hearing. The appellant may present evidence in support of its appeal. 

The Appeal Panel’s decision shall be final. The Appeal Panel shall not set aside, modify or amend 

the summary fines imposed unless the Appeal Panel determines by a majority vote that the 

decision to impose the fine was either: 

(1) arbitrary, capricious, or an abuse of the Chief Compliance Officer’s 

discretion; or

(2) in excess of the Chief Compliance Officer’s authority or jurisdiction.

Rule 717. Summary Suspensions and Other Summary Actions

(a) Notwithstanding anything in the Rules to the contrary, the Chief Compliance 

Officer may, after consultation with the Regulatory Oversight Committee if practicable, 

summarily suspend, revoke, limit, condition, restrict or qualify a Participant’s Trading Privileges 

and/or ability to otherwise access the Trading System, and may take other summary action against 

a Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User or Customer in accordance with the Rules 

(including any imposition of a fine under Rule 716) if the Chief Compliance Officer reasonably 

believes that immediate action is necessary to protect the best interests of the public or the 

Company.
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(b) Where practicable, the Company shall provide prior written notice to the party 

against whom action in accordance with paragraph (a) is to be taken. If prior notice is not 

practicable, the Company will give notice at the earliest possible opportunity. Any such notice 

shall describe the action taken or to be taken by the Company, the reasons therefor, the effective 

date, time and duration thereof, and advise the recipient of the notice of its right to a prompt 

hearing before a Disciplinary Panel and its right to be represented by legal counsel or other 

representative at such hearing. A request by a Participant or other Person for such a hearing shall 

not delay the effectiveness of the summary action.

(c) At the request of the Company, a respondent against whom a summary action is 

brought pursuant to this Rule 717 shall provide books and records over which the respondent has 

access or Control and shall furnish information to, or appear or testify before, the Company and a 

Disciplinary Panel in connection with the enforcement of any Rule.

(d) If a hearing is requested pursuant to paragraph (b), the Disciplinary Panel will 

promptly convene a hearing to be conducted in accordance with Rule 712.

(e) As promptly as reasonably possible after the hearing, the Disciplinary Panel will 

issue to the respondent a written order based on the weight of the evidence affirming, modifying, 

or reversing the summary action. The order will include a description of the summary action 

taken, a summary of the evidence introduced at the hearing, a statement of findings of fact and 

conclusions, a description of any action taken or to be taken by the Company, and the effective 

date, time and duration thereof. 

Rule 718. Rights and Responsibilities After Suspension or Termination

(a) With respect to a Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User whose Trading 

Privileges and/or ability to otherwise access the Trading System have been suspended, none of its 

rights (including the right to hold oneself out to the public as a Participant, Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User, enter Orders into the Trading System and originate or respond to Requests for 

Quotes) will apply during the period of the suspension, except for the right of the Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Authorized User in question to assert a claim as provided in Chapter 8. Any 

such suspension will not relieve the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User in question 

of its, his or her obligations under the Rules to perform any obligation incurred prior to the 

suspension, or for any Company fees, costs, or charges incurred during the suspension. The 

Company may discipline a suspended Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User under 

this Chapter 7 for any violation of a Rule committed by the Participant, Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User before, during or after the suspension.

(b) When a Participant’s, Authorized Trader’s or Authorized User’s Trading Privileges 

and/or ability to otherwise access the Trading System are terminated, all of its, his or her related 

rights will terminate, except for the right of the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User 

in question to assert a claim as provided in Chapter 8.

(c) A suspended or terminated Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User 

remains subject to the Rules and the jurisdiction of the Company for acts and omissions prior to the 

suspension or termination, and must cooperate in any Disciplinary Proceeding or appeal of 
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Disciplinary Proceedings as if the suspended or terminated Participant, Authorized Trader or 

Authorized User still had Trading Privileges or ability to otherwise access the Trading System.

Rule 719. Notice of Disciplinary Proceedings

The Company will provide written notice of final decisions in Disciplinary Proceedings to 

the parties to the Disciplinary Proceeding and to the CFTC consistent with applicable CFTC 

Regulations and the Rules, including final written notice through NFA’s Background Affiliation 

Status Information Center. Whenever the Company suspends, expels, fines or otherwise 

disciplines or denies any Person access to the Company, the Company will make any public 

disclosures required by CFTC Regulations.

Rule 720. Regulatory Services Provider

(a) Any of the functions of the Company under Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 or this Chapter 

7 may be performed by a Regulatory Services Provider pursuant to a delegation of such functions 

by the Company to such Regulatory Services Provider, and references to the Company shall in 

such circumstances be deemed to be references to such Regulatory Services Provider. The 

Company may provide information regarding any Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized 

User to the Regulatory Services Provider in connection with the performance by the Regulatory 

Services Provider of those functions. A failure to comply with a request or direction from the 

Regulatory Services Provider shall be deemed to be a failure to comply with a request or direction 

from the Company.

(b) The Company shall retain exclusive authority over all substantive decisions made 

by the Regulatory Services Provider (including decisions involving the cancellation of trades, the 

issuance of disciplinary charges, suspensions or terminations of Trading Privileges and/or ability 

to otherwise access the Trading System) and will document instances where its actions differ in 

any material respect from those recommended by the Regulatory Services Provider.

(c) The Company shall retain ultimate decision-making authority with respect to any 

functions that are performed by a Regulatory Services Provider, including the reasons for the 

course of action recommended by the Regulatory Services Provider.
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CHAPTER 8. ARBITRATION RULES

Rule 801. General

(a) Participants, Authorized Traders, Authorized Users, Customers and other Persons 

subject to the Company’s jurisdiction shall arbitrate through NFA’s arbitration program all 

disputes, controversies or claims between or among themselves that relate to or arise out of any 

Swap or otherwise arise out of one or more transactions made or alleged to have been made on the 

Trading System or subject to the Rules and that are based upon facts and circumstances that 

occurred at a time when the parties were Participants, Authorized Traders, Authorized Users, 

Customers or otherwise subject to the Company’s jurisdiction.

(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Chapter 8 does not apply to disputes between 

Participants, Authorized Traders, Authorized Users, Customers and other Persons subject to the 

Company’s jurisdiction that: (i) such Persons are required by the rules of a Self-Regulatory 

Organization to submit to the dispute resolution procedures of that Self-Regulatory Organization; 

or (ii) that such Persons have, by valid and binding agreement, committed to negotiate or litigate in

a forum other than NFA.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Chapter 8 does not require arbitration of claims 

alleging employment discrimination (including sexual harassment) in violation of Applicable 

Law.

Rule 802. Forum and Arbitration Rules

NFA will conduct arbitrations described in this Chapter 8 pursuant to NFA’s Member 

Arbitration Rules, as if each party to such arbitration was an “NFA Member,” and references in the 

Member Arbitration Rules to an “Associate” of an “NFA Member” shall mean and include an 

Authorized User.

Rule 803. Initiating an Arbitration Claim

(a) A Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User, Customer or other Person 

subject to the Company’s jurisdiction may initiate an arbitration claim by submitting the required 

documents and fees to the NFA.

(b) A Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User, Customer or other Person 

submitting an arbitration claim shall provide written notice of such claim to the Company.

Rule 804. Claims Relating to Trade Cancellations or Price Adjustments

All claims relating to trade cancellations or price – adjustments pursuant to Rule 527 shall 

be arbitrated in accordance with this Chapter 8.

Rule 805. Penalties

(a) Any failure by a Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User subject to the 

Company’s jurisdiction to arbitrate a dispute subject to this Chapter 8, or the commencement by 
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such a Person of a suit in any court prior to arbitrating a case subject to this Chapter 8, shall 

constitute a violation of these Rules and shall subject such Participant to disciplinary proceedings 

pursuant to Chapter 7. A Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User that does not arbitrate 

a dispute through the NFA Arbitration Program as provided in Rule 801(b) or Rule 801(c) shall not 

be deemed to have violated these Rules.

(b) The Company may summarily suspend, pursuant to Rule 717, a Participant, 

Authorized Trader or Authorized User that fails to timely satisfy an arbitration award rendered in 

any arbitration conducted pursuant to this Chapter 8.
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CHAPTER 9. MISCELLANEOUS

Rule 901. Legal Certainty

No Swap listed for trading on the Trading System shall be void, voidable, subject to 

rescission or otherwise invalidated or rendered unenforceable as a result of either: (1) any 

violation by the Company of any provision of the CEA or CFTC Regulations; (2) any action taken 

by the CFTC that has the effect of amending, altering or supplementing the Rules or any of the 

terms or conditions of a Swap listed for trading on the Trading System: (3) or any other proceeding 

the effect of which is to: (i) alter or supplement a specific term or condition or trading rule or 

procedure; or (ii) require a swap execution facility to adopt a specific term or condition, trading 

rule or procedure, or to take or refrain from taking a specific action.

Rule 902. Trading by Company Officials Prohibited; Misuse of Material, Non-Public 

Information

(a) No Company Official may trade, directly or indirectly any Swap or any commodity 

interest related thereto.

(b) No member of the Board, member of any Committee, Disciplinary Panel Member 

or Appeal Panel Member (each, a “Covered Person”) and no Company Official may trade, directly 

or indirectly any Swap, any Swap traded on another swap execution facility or other market, or any 

commodity interest related thereto where such Covered Person or Company has access to material 

non-public information concerning such Swap or commodity interest that was obtained as a result 

of the individual’s duties and responsibilities as a Covered Person or Company Official, as 

applicable. Participation by a Company Official in a retirement plan sponsored by the Company 

shall not be deemed to constitute trading directly or indirectly in a Swap or commodity interest, 

notwithstanding such plan’s trading of swaps or commodity interests. 

(c) The Chief Compliance Officer (or, in the case of the Chief Compliance Officer, the 

Board) may grant exemptions from the provisions of paragraph (a) to Company Officials on a 

case-by-case basis under circumstances that are not contrary to the purposes of this Rule and 

CFTC Regulation 1.59. Such circumstances may include, but are not necessarily limited to:

(1) participation in pooled investment vehicles where such Company Official 

has no direct or indirect control over transactions effected by or for the account of the 

pool;

(2) service by such Company Official as an executor or administrator of an 

estate;

(3) service by such Company Official in any other fiduciary capacity, such as 

an officer of a charitable organization, in which such Company Official receives no 

pecuniary benefit from the trading of Swaps or other commodity interests; and

(4) such other circumstances as the Chief Compliance Officer (or, in the case of 

the Chief Compliance Officer, the Board) may determine.
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(d) Any Company Official that has received an exemption under paragraph (c) must:

(1) furnish to the Company (or, in the case of the Chief Compliance Officer, to 

the Board) account statements and other documents relevant to the trading activities that 

are so exempted; and

(2) inform the Chief Compliance Officer (or, in the case of the Chief 

Compliance Officer, the Board) within one Business Day of any material change of 

information that may affect such Company Official’s qualification for such exemption.

(e) Covered Persons and Company Officials are prohibited from using or disclosing 

disclose for any purpose other than the performance of their official duties and responsibilities 

material non-public information obtained as a result of their employment, agency relationship or 

engagement with the Company where the Covered Person or Company Official expected or should 

have reasonably expected that the information disclosed may assist a Person in trading any Swap, 

any swap traded on another swap execution facility or other market, or any commodity interest 

related thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Covered Persons and Company Officials may 

disclose material, non-public information if required by law or a court order.

(f) Terms used in this Rule 902 and not otherwise defined in the Rules shall have the 

meaning set forth in CFTC Regulations 1.3 and 1.59.

Rule 903. Proprietary Information; Use of Market Data

(a) By accessing the Company, each Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User, 

ISV, Customer or other Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction hereby acknowledges and 

agrees that the Company owns and shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the Trading 

System, all components thereof, including all related applications, all application programming 

interfaces, user interface designs, software and source code and any and all intellectual property 

rights therein, including all registered or unregistered, as applicable (a) copyright, (b) trade mark, 

(c) service mark, (d) trade secret, (e) trade name, (f) data or database rights, (g) design rights, (h) 

moral rights, (i) inventions, whether or not capable or protection by patent or registration, (j) rights 

in commercial information or technical information, including know-how, research and 

development data and manufacturing methods, (k) patent, and (l) other intellectual property and 

ownership rights, including applications for the grant of any of the same, in or to the Trading 

System and all other related proprietary rights of the Company and/or any of its Affiliates 

(together, with any and all enhancements, corrections, bug fixes, updates and other modifications 

to any of the foregoing and any and all data or information of any kind transmitted by means of any 

of the foregoing, including the Market Data, the “Proprietary Information”). Each Participant, 

Authorized Trader, Authorized User, ISV, Customer and other Person subject to the Company’s 

jurisdiction further acknowledges and agrees that the Proprietary Information is the exclusive, 

valuable and confidential property of the Company. Each Participant, Authorized Trader, 

Authorized User, ISV, Customer and other Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction 

acknowledges and agrees that it shall not and shall not permit other Persons affiliated it to, reverse 

engineer, copy, bug fix, correct, update, transfer, reproduce, republish, broadcast, create derivative 

works based on or otherwise modify, in any manner, all or any part of the Trading System or the 

Proprietary Information. Each Participant, Authorized Trader, Authorized User, ISV, Customer 
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and other Person subject to the Company’s jurisdiction further agrees to keep, and to cause each of 

its employees and agents to keep Proprietary Information confidential and not to transfer, lease, 

loan, sell or distribute, directly or indirectly, all or any portion of the Trading System or any 

Proprietary Information except as may be expressly permitted in writing by the Company or in 

accordance with Rule 904 as if references therein to the Company were references to any of the 

foregoing Persons. 

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Rule 903, each Participant and each 

Authorized Trader retains such rights as it may enjoy under Applicable Law with respect to Market 

Data solely in the form such Market Data was submitted to the Trading System by such Participant 

or Authorized Trader or their respective Authorized Users.

(c) Each Participant and each Authorized Trader hereby grants the Company a 

non-exclusive, perpetual, freely transferable, world-wide and royalty-free license to use, 

distribute, sub-license, disclose and sell Market Data, in any manner, media and jurisdiction, for 

the benefit of the Company and/or its Affiliates; provided that, except as may otherwise be 

permitted by Rule 904 or in any written agreement between the Company and such Participant or 

Authorized Trader, the Company shall not (i) for itself or its Affiliates, use such Market Data to 

compete directly with the Participant or Authorized Trader, or (ii) attribute such Market Data to 

the Participant or Authorized Trader or otherwise identify the Participant or Authorized Trader.

(d) The Company shall not use for business or marketing purposes any proprietary data 

or personal information it collects or receives, from or on behalf of any Person, for the purpose of 

fulfilling the Company’s regulatory obligations; provided, however, that the Person from whom it 

collects or receives such data or information consents in writing to the Company’s use of such data 

or information in such manner. The Company may share such information with one or more Swap 

Execution Facilities, designated contract markets, or the CFTC for regulatory purposes as required 

under Applicable Law.

(e) Each Participant and Authorized Trader acknowledges and agrees that the 

Company may disclose and disseminate swap transaction and pricing data relating to trades 

executed on the Trading System or reported to the Company in accordance with Chapter 6 to other 

Persons with access to the Trading System; provided that such dissemination and disclosure is 

made no earlier than the Company’s transmittal of such data to a Swap Data Repository. 

Rule 904. Confidentiality

Except as provided in Rule 903, all non-public information provided to the Company by a 

Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User shall be held in confidence and shall not be 

made known to any other Person except as follows:

(a) with the consent of the Participant, Authorized Trader or Authorized User 

providing such information;

(b) to a Government Agency or the regulatory authority of any foreign jurisdiction, if 

the Company is requested or legally required to do so by such Government Agency;

(c) to the CFTC;
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(d) pursuant to legal process;

(e) to a Derivatives Clearing Organization of which such Participant is a member or in 

connection with the clearing of a Swap;

(f) to a Swap Data Repository or other registered entity (as such term is defined in 

CFTC Regulations);

(g) subject to appropriate confidentiality requirements, to any Person providing 

services to the Company, including the Regulatory Services Provider;

(h) with respect to Market Data, in accordance with Rule 903(c);

(i) pursuant to an information-sharing agreement or other arrangement or procedures 

in accordance with Rule 906; and

(j) to the Board, any Committee, Company Officials, attorneys and auditors, and to 

agents and independent contractors that have been engaged by the Company who require such 

information in connection with the discharge of their duties to the Company; and 

(k) as otherwise expressly permitted under the Rules.

Rule 905. Recording of Communications

The Company and/or the Regulatory Services Provider may record conversations and 

retain copies of electronic communications between Company Officials and Participants, 

Authorized Traders, and Authorized Users and Clearing Firms, and Participants, Authorized 

Traders, and Authorized Users and Clearing Firms may record conversations and retain copies of 

electronic communications between them and Company Officials. Any such recordings made by 

the Company may be retained by the Company and/or the Regulatory Services Provider in such 

manner and for such periods of time as the Company may deem necessary or appropriate, 

including as may be required by Applicable Law, but the Company assumes no obligation to 

Participants, Authorized Traders, or Authorized Users or Clearing Firms to retain any such 

recordings. The Company and/or the Regulatory Services Provider may disclose such recordings 

as required by Applicable Law or regulation or upon the request of any Government Agency. This 

Rule 905 shall be deemed to constitute the consent of each Participant, Authorized Trader, and

Authorized User and Clearing Firm to such recording and a waiver of any tone or other notice 

requirement in the State or country of such Person’s residence, place of organization or place of 

business. 

Rule 906. Information-Sharing Agreements

(a) The Company may enter into information-sharing agreements or other 

arrangements or procedures to coordinate surveillance with other markets and with clearing 

organizations on which Swaps and related financial instruments are traded or cleared. As part of 

any such information-sharing agreements or other arrangements or procedures adopted pursuant to 

this Rule, the Company may:
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(1) provide market surveillance reports to other markets and to clearing 

organizations;

(2) share information and documents concerning current and former 

Participants, Authorized Traders and Authorized Users with other markets and clearing 

organizations;

(3) share information and documents concerning ongoing and completed 

Disciplinary Proceedings with other markets and clearing organizations; and/or

(4) require Participants and Authorized Traders to provide information and 

documents to the Company at the request of other markets or clearing organizations with 

which the Company has an information-sharing agreement or other arrangements or 

procedures.

(b) The Company may enter into any arrangement with any Person or body (including 

the CFTC, the NFA, any Self-Regulatory Organization, any exchange, market, clearing 

organization, or foreign regulatory authority, data repository or third-party data reporting services) 

if the Company considers such arrangement to be in furtherance of the Company’s purpose or 

duties under the Rules or any law or regulation.

Rule 907. Force Majeure 

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Rules, any delay in or failure by the Company 

to perform its obligations under the Rules or any agreement with a Participant (including exhibits 

and schedules thereto) will not be considered a breach and will be excused to the extent that such 

delay or failure is caused by any event beyond the reasonable control of the Company, including, 

without limitation, acts of God, acts of civil or military authorities, strikes or other labor disputes, 

fire or other natural disasters, interruption in telecommunications, power outages, and 

governmental restrictions.

Rule 908. Extension or Waiver of Rules

The Company may, in its sole discretion, waive, or extend the time period for performing, 

any act or acts designated by the Rules, but only to the extent such waiver or extension is not 

inconsistent with the CEA or CFTC Regulations.

Rule 909. Effect of Amendment, Repeal or New Rule

The Company may, in compliance with the CEA and CFTC Regulations, amend or repeal 

any Rule and/or adopt new Rules. Any such amendment or repeal of a Rule or adoption of a new 

Rule, shall, upon the effective date of such amendment, repeal or adoption, as applicable, be 

binding on all Persons subject to the jurisdiction of the Company (regardless of when any such 

Person became subject to the Company’s jurisdiction) and all Swaps (regardless of whether any 

such Swap was entered into before, on or after such effective date).
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Rule 910. Signatures

Rather than rely on an original signature, the Company may elect to rely on a signature that 

is transmitted, recorded or stored by any electronic, optical, or similar means (including telecopy, 

imaging, photocopying, electronic mail, electronic data interchange, telegram or telex) as if it were 

(and the signature shall be considered and have the same effect as) a valid and binding original. 

Rule 911. Governing Law; Legal Proceedings

(a) The Rules, and the rights and obligations of the Company, Participants, Authorized 

Traders and Authorized Users under the Rules, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance 

with, the laws of the state of New York applicable to contracts executed and performed wholly 

within the state of New York, without regard to any provisions of New York law that would apply 

the substantive law of a different jurisdiction.

(b) Subject to Rule 528, any action, suit or proceeding against the Company, its 

Officers, Directors, employees, agents, or any member of any Committee must be brought with in 

one (1) year from the time that a cause of action has accrued. Any such action, suit or proceeding 

shall be brought in the State or Federal courts located within Borough of Manhattan in the city of 

New York. Each Participant and Authorized Trader expressly consents, for itself and its 

Authorized Users, to the jurisdiction of any such court, waives any objection to venue therein, and 

waives any right it may have to a trial by jury.

(c) In the event that a Participant or an Authorized Trader who fails to prevail in a 

lawsuit or other legal proceeding instituted by such Participant or such Authorized Trader against 

(i) the Company or (ii) any Affiliate of the Company or any of their respective officers, directors, 

equity holders, employees, agents, or any member of any Committee, and related to the business of 

the Company, such Participant or Authorized Trader shall pay to the Company all reasonable 

expenses, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by the Company in the defense of such proceeding. 

This paragraph (c) shall not apply to Company disciplinary actions, appeals thereof, or an instance 

in which the Board has granted a waiver of the provisions hereof.

Rule 912. Emergencies

(a) During an Emergency, the Board may implement temporary emergency procedures 

and rules (“Emergency Rules”), subject to applicable provisions of the CEA and CFTC 

Regulations. If the Chief Executive Officer determines that Emergency Rules must be 

implemented with respect to an Emergency before a meeting of the Board can reasonably be 

convened, the Chief Executive Officer shall have the authority, without Board action, to 

implement Emergency Rules with respect to such Emergency as he or she deems necessary or 

appropriate to respond to such Emergency. The Company also may take such other action as may 

be directed by the CFTC in response to an Emergency.

(b) Emergency Rules may require or authorize the Company, the Board, any 

Committee, the Chief Executive Officer or any other Officer to take actions necessary or 

appropriate to respond to the Emergency, including:
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(1) suspending or curtailing trading or limiting trading to liquidation only (in 

whole or in part);

(2) extending, limiting or changing expiration dates or trading hours for one or 

more Swaps;

(3) ordering the fixing of a settlement price;

(4) ordering the liquidation or transfer of Swaps or the reduction of positions;

(5) temporarily modifying or suspending any provision of the Rules;

(6) requiring additional margin to be collected from Customers;

(7) imposing or modifying price limits, position limits or intraday market 

restrictions;

(8) in coordination with applicable Derivatives Clearing Organizations, 

transferring Customer Swaps and related margin and/or altering any Swap’s settlement 

terms or conditions; and/or

(9) providing for the carrying out of any actions under this Rule 912(b) by the 

Regulatory Services Provider.

(c) The Company will use reasonable efforts to notify the CFTC prior to 

implementing, modifying or terminating an Emergency Rule. If such prior notification is not 

practicable, the Company will notify the CFTC as soon as reasonably practicable, but in all 

circumstances within twenty-four (24) hours of the implementation, modification or termination 

of such Emergency Rule. 

(d) Whenever the Company takes action to respond to an Emergency it will, where 

practicable, ensure that prompt notice is given to Participants.

(e) When the Company determines that the Emergency has been reduced sufficiently 

to allow the Company to resume normal functioning, any such actions will be modified or 

terminated, as appropriate.

(f) Upon taking any action in response to an Emergency, the Company shall document 

the decisions and deliberations related to such action. Such documentation will be maintained for 

at least five (5) years following the date on which the Emergency ceases to exist or to affect the 

Company, and all such documentation will be provided to the CFTC upon request.
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CHAPTER 10. CLEARING

Rule 1001. Cleared Swaps

(a) Submission to Derivatives Clearing Organization. The Company shall submit 

Cleared Swaps to a Derivatives Clearing Organization on behalf of the parties to such swaps.

(b) Risk-Based Limits.

(i) The Company will take steps to facilitate pre-execution checks by Clearing 

Firms for compliance with Risk-Based Limits, and will issue notices to Clearing Firms and 

Participants relating thereto.

(ii) Consistent with and to the extent required by CFTC Regulations (including 

CFTC Regulations 1.73 and 23.609):

(A) Each Clearing Firm that is a Participant shall establish Risk-Based 

Limits in its proprietary account;

(B) Each Clearing Firm, whether or not a Participant, shall establish 

Risk-Based Limits in each of its Customer accounts; and

(C) Each Clearing Firm shall to the extent practicable use automated 

means to screen Orders that it has authorized a Participant to execute electronically 

and shall establish and maintain systems of risk controls reasonably designed to 

ensure compliance with Risk-Based Limits for all other Orders.

(iii) Prior to entering any Order for a Cleared Swap, each Participant that is 

acting as principal shall take reasonable steps to verify that such Order, if executed, would 

not exceed the Risk-Based Limits established by the Participant’s Clearing Firm.

(iv) Prior to entering any Order for a Customer for a Cleared Swap, each

Participant that is acting as broker shall require its Customer to take reasonable steps to 

verify that such Order, if executed, would not exceed the Risk-Based Limits established by 

the Customer’s Clearing Firm.

Rule 1002. Clearing Firm Requirements

Except as otherwise provided in Rule 1005, a Clearing Firm that seeks to effect 

transactions on the Trading System for its own account or the account of any other Person must be 

a Participant.

Rule 1003. Submission of Swaps to Derivatives Clearing Organization

Swaps executed on or through the Trading System that are required to be cleared under 

Section 2(h) of the CEA or that are voluntarily cleared by the counterparties to such Swap shall be 

cleared through a Derivatives Clearing Organization. 
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Rule 1004. Clearing Firm Guarantee

(a) Each Participant that is not a Clearing Firm must obtain prior authorization from a 

Clearing Firm that will guarantee Participant’s transactions in Swaps that are intended to be 

cleared, or enter into an appropriate arrangement with a Person that has such an authorization from 

a Clearing Firm. Each such guarantee or other arrangement must be in form and substance 

satisfactory to, and approved by, the Company. A Clearing Firm must guarantee and assume 

financial responsibility for all Swaps of each Participant guaranteed by it. Where such Participant 

utilizes the services of multiple Clearing Firms, a Clearing Firm shall only be responsible to the 

extent that it has been designed to clear a particular transaction.

(b) A Clearing Firm may at any time revoke any authorization granted and guarantee 

made by it to any Participant in accordance with paragraph (a) above, by providing written notice 

of such revocation to the Company. The guarantee will remain in effect until the non-Clearing 

Firm has liquidated or transferred all its Customer and proprietary positions and funds, as 

applicable, to another Clearing Firm.

Rule 1005. Responsibility of Participants

Each Participant must assist its Clearing Firm and the Derivatives Clearing Organization in 

the clearing of its transactions in Swaps. 

Rule 1006. Liquidation of Positions by Clearing Firms

A Clearing Firm that is not also a Participant may trade an account on behalf of another 

Person solely for the purpose of liquidating Swaps carried by such Clearing Firm on behalf of a 

Person that has failed to perform its obligations to such Clearing Firm.

Rule 1007. Rules of the Derivatives Clearing Organization

The clearing services provided by the Derivatives Clearing Organization with respect to 

any Swap, and the rights and obligations of purchasers and sellers under cleared Swaps (including 

rights and obligations in respect of clearing and settlement, variation payments and performance at 

maturity), will be governed by the rules of the Derivatives Clearing Organization.

[RESERVED]
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APPENDIX 1: PRODUCT TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Explanation and Analysis of Available Swaps

Non-Deliverable Forwards

Each NDF is a cash-settled swap where the settlement obligations of the parties is determined by 

calculating the difference between the forward rate, which is agreed on between the parties at the 

start of the contract, and the prevailing spot exchange rate on the fixing date. This difference is 

then multiplied by the notional amount, which is also determined at the start of the contract. The 

price source for the spot exchange rate on the fixing date will be bilaterally agreed and, in majority 

of cases, determined by various central banks or as public by recognized commercial market data 

vendors. This information is easily accessible to the public.

Foreign Currency Options

A foreign currency option is a contract giving the option purchaser (the buyer) the right, 

but not the obligation, to buy or sell a fixed amount of foreign exchange at a fixed price per unit for 

a specified time period. The foreign exchange options that will be listed for trading by 360T will be 

cash settled. This means that any payments are made in the settlement currency, and that payments 

are not made in the reference currency.

Contract Specifications

Non-Deliverable Forward Contract Specifications

Contract Overview A non-deliverable forward is a contract in which counterparties settle 

the difference between the fixed exchange rate agreed by the parties 

and the prevailing spot rate on an agreed notional amount in the 

settlement currency.

Reference Currency See current currency list as per Swaps Availablebelow.

Reference Currency 

Notional Amount

As agreed by the parties.

Settlement Currency See current currency list as per Swaps Availablebelow.

Pre Quotation and 

Minimum Price 

Increment

The price quotation is determined as a decimal number with five 

decimal places. The minimum price change is 0.00005, equivalent to a 

value of five units of the quote currency.

Trade Date The date on which parties enter into the contract

Fixed Exchange Rate As agreed by the parties, and expressed as the amount of Reference 

Currency per unit of Settlement Currency

Fixing Date The date at which the difference between the prevailing spot rate and 

the fixed exchange rate is calculated.

Settlement Date As agreed by the parties

Settlement Type Non-Deliverable

Settlement Bilateral settlement performed in Settlement Currency
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Procedure

Trading Hours 00:01 -24:00 Sunday-Friday Eastern Time

Clearing Venue Not applicable 

Block Size As set forth in Appendix F to Part 43 of the CFTC Regulations.

Speculative Limits As set forth in Part 151150 of the CFTC Regulations, as applicable

Reportable Levels As set forth in CFTC Regulation 15.03

Foreign Currency Option Specifications

Contract Overview A foreign currency option is a transaction in which the buyer has the 

right, but not the obligation, to purchase a fixed amount of foreign 

exchange at a fixed exchange rate agreed by the parties for a specified 

time period. 

Reference Currency See current currency list as per Swaps Availablebelow.

Reference Currency 

Notional Amount

As agreed by the parties

Settlement Currency See current currency list as per Swaps Availablebelow.

Price Quotation and 

Minimum Price 

Increment

The price quotation is determined as a decimal number with five decimal 

places. The minimum price change is 0.00005, equivalent to a value of 

five units of the quote currency.

Option Style American or European

Strike Price As agreed by the parties 

Expiration Date As agreed by the parties 

Expiration Time The time at which the Spot Rate is determined.

Settlement Date As agreed by the parties.

Settlement Procedure Bilateral settlement performed in Settlement Currency

Settlement Type Non-Deliverable

Premium As agreed by the parties 

Premium Payment 

Date

As agreed by the parties

Trading Hours 00:01 -24:00 Sunday-Friday Eastern Time

Clearing Venue Not applicable

Block Size As set forth in Appendix F to Part 43 of the CFTC Regulations.

Speculative Limits As set forth in Part 151150 of the CFTC Regulations, as applicable

Reportable Levels As set forth in CFTC Regulation 15.03

Swaps Available

The current list of Swaps available for trading on 360T Swaps Execution Facility can be 

found on 360T website:

 http://www.360t.com/download/360T_Product_Spec_Certification.p
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Currency List

Code Name

AFN Afghan Afghani

ALL Albanian Lek

AMD Armenian Dram

AOA Angolan Kwanza

ARS Argentine Peso

AUD Australian Dollar

AWG Aruban Florin

AZN Azerbaijani Manat

BAM Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Mark

BBD Barbadian Dollar

BDT Bangladeshi Taka

BGN Bulgarian Lev

BHD Bahraini Dinar

BIF Burundian Franc

BMD Bermudian Dollar

BOB Bolivian Boliviano

BRL Brazilian Real

BSD Bahamian Dollar

BWP Botswana Pula

BYR Belarusian Ruble

BZD Belize Dollar

CAD Canadian Dollar

CDF Franc Congolais

CHF Swiss Franc

CLP Chilean Peso

CNH Deliverable Chinese Yuan settled in Hong Kong

CNY Chinese Yuan Renminbi

COP Colombian Peso

CRC Costa Rican Colon

CVE Cape Verdean Escudo

CZK Czech Koruna

DJF Djiboutian Franc

DKK Danish Krone

DOP Dominican Peso

DZD Algerian Dinar

EEK Estonian Kroon

EGP Egyptian Pound

ERN Eritrean Nakfa

ETB Ethiopian Birr

EUR Euro

FJD Fijian Dollar
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GBP Great British Pound

GEL Georgian Lari

GHS Ghanaian Cedi

GMD Gambian Dalasi

GNF Guinean Franc

GTQ Guatemalan Quetzal

GYD Guyana Dollar

HKD Hong Kong Dollar

HNL Honduran Lempira

HRK Croatian Kuna

HTG Haitian Gourde

HUF Hungarian Forint

IDR Indonesian Rupiah

ILS New Israel Shekel

INR Indian Rupee

IQD Iraqi Dinar

IRR Iranian Rial

ISK Icelandic Krona

JMD Jamaican Dollar

JOD Jordanian Dinar

JPY Japanese Yen

KES Kenyan Shilling

KGS Kyrgyzstani som

KHR Cambodian Riel

KRW South Korean Won

KWD Kuwaiti Dinar

KYD Cayman Islands Dollar

KZT Kazakhstani Tenge

LAK Lao Kip

LBP Lebanese Pound

LKR Sri Lanka Rupee

LRD Liberian Dollar

LSL Lesotho Loti

LTL Lithuanian Litas

LVL Latvian Lats

LYD Libyan Dinar

MAD Moroccan Dirham

MGA Malagasy Ariary

MKD Macedonian Denar

MNT Mongolian Tugrik

MRO Mauritania Ouguiya

MUR Mauritian Rupee

MWK Malawian Kwacha

MXN Mexican Peso

MYR Malaysian Ringgit
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MZN Mozambican Metical

NAD Namibian Dollar

NGN Nigerian Naira

NIO Nicaraguan Córdoba

NOK Norwegian Krone

NPR Nepalese Rupee

NZD New Zealand Dollar

OMR Omani Rial

PEN Peruvian New Sol

PGK Papua New Guinean Kina

PHP Philippine Peso

PKR Pakistani Rupee

PLN Polish New Zloty

PYG Paraguayan Guarani

QAR Qatari Rial

RON Romanian New Leu

RSD Serbian Dinar

RUB Russian Federation Ruble

RWF Rwandan Franc

SAR Saudi Arabian Riyal

SBD Solomon Islands Dollar

SCR Seychelles Rupee

SDG Sudanese Pound

SEK Swedish Krona

SGD Singapore Dollar

SLL Sierra Leonean Leone

SRD Surinamese Dollar

SSP South Sudanese Pound

STD Sao Tome Dobra

SYP Syrian Pound

SZL Swazi Lilangeni

THB Thai Baht

TJS Tajikistani Somoni

TND Tunisian Dinar

TOP Tongan Pa'Anga

TRY Turkish New Lira

TTD Trinidad and Tobago Dollar

TWD New Taiwan Dollar

TZS Tanzanian Shilling

UAH Ukrainian Hryvnia

UGX Ugandan Shilling

USD United States Dollar

UYU Uruguayan Peso

UZS Uzbekistani Som

VEF Venezuelan Bolivar Fuerte
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VND Vietnamese Dong

VUV Vanuatu Vatu

WST Samoan Tala

XAF CFA Franc Central Africa

XCD East Caribbean Dollar

XOF CFA Franc West Africa

XPF French Pacific Franc

YER Yemeni Rial

ZAR South African Rand

ZMK Zambian Kwacha

ZMW Zambian Kwacha

ZWR Zimbabwean Dollar