Title: A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to exempt certain small entities dealing in foreign exchange that serve small- and medium-sized businesses from certain capital and margin requirements, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector

Summary:
This bill amends the Commodity Exchange Act to exempt certain money transmitters from specified capital and margin requirements that otherwise apply to counterparty swaps.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2428 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2428

 To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to exempt certain small entities 
    dealing in foreign exchange that serve small- and medium-sized 
businesses from certain capital and margin requirements, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 14, 2018

   Mr. Hatch introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Commodity Exchange Act to exempt certain small entities 
    dealing in foreign exchange that serve small- and medium-sized 
businesses from certain capital and margin requirements, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. APPLICABILITY OF CAPITAL AND MARGIN REQUIREMENTS TO 
              COUNTERPARTIES.

    Section 4s(e)(4) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 6s(e)(4)) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking ``counterparty qualifies'' and inserting 
        the following: ``counterparty--
                    ``(A) qualifies'';
            (2) in subparagraph (A) (as so designated), by striking the 
        period at the end and inserting ``; or''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B)(i) is a money transmitter (as defined in 
                section 1010.100(ff)(5) of title 31, Code of Federal 
                Regulations) (or any successor regulation)) that--
                            ``(I) is regulated by a State, the District 
                        of Columbia, or a territory or possession of 
                        the United States for financial adequacy;
                            ``(II) is registered in accordance with 
                        section 1022.380 of title 31, Code of Federal 
                        Regulations (or any successor regulation); and
                            ``(III) enters only into swaps exclusively 
                        for the purpose of offsetting risks generated 
                        from foreign currency contracts with an entity 
                        that is not a financial end user (as defined in 
                        section 23.151 of title 17, Code of Federal 
                        Regulations (or any successor regulation)); and
                    ``(ii) has total assets of $1,000,000,000 or less 
                on the last day of its most recent fiscal year.''.
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