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External Meetings: Definitions Meeting with ISDA
  
    



  ISDA elaborated on the position in its comment letter dated Feb. 22, 2011 (Comment No. 27904) that a swap dealer test based on whether a person makes two-way markets would resolve ambiguities in the definition, because it encompasses in a single concept all four prongs of the definition.~ISDA believes the “regular business” exception should apply where a person does not make a regular practice of acting as a swap dealer.  Also, if a person only responds to requests-for-quotation regarding swaps, it is not a swap dealer.~ISDA also made the point that a person who only enters into swaps with other dealers or MSPs, shouldn’t be a swap dealer because all the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act would be satisfied by applying the statute to the swap dealers that enter into swaps with persons other than other dealers or MSPs.~ISDA said that persons acting as aggregators and those facilitating customer demand to only a limited extent  might be dealers, but only if they engage in two-way market activity.  The Commissions should consider the costs of dealer status and, ultimately, since smaller market participants must hedge their positions with swap dealers, the goals of the Dodd-Frank Act would be met.~ISDA also expressed concerns about the extraterritorial scope of the Dodd-Frank Act.
      
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              03/31/2011

  Rulemaking(s)
              II. Definitions

  CFTC Staff
              David AronNatalie Markman Radhakrishnan Steve KaneChristopher Cummings

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              Angie Karna (Nomura)Silas Findley (Citi)Paarag Sarva (Goldman Sachs)Joe Hamilton  (Credit Suisse)Annah Kim (Bank of America/Merrill Lynch)Kate Lamburn (Bank of America/Merrill Lynch) Josh Cohn (Mayer Brown)Josh Kans (SEC)Gregg Berman (SEC)Jeff Dinwoodie (SEC)Richard Grant (SEC)Andrew Blake (SEC)

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              NomuraCitiGoldman SachsCredit SuisseBank of America/Merrill LynchMayer Brown


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