DCM Impartial Access Requirements

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is issuing an interpretation of the requirement that designated contract markets ("DCMs") provide competitive, open, fair, and impartial access to their members and persons with trading privileges under Commission Regulation 38.151(b) ("Impartial Access Requirements"). Specifically, this final interpretive guidance is being issued to inform the public of the Commission's views on the Impartial Access Requirements that should be guiding exchanges' selections of access criteria. The Commission issues this interpretive guidance after a significant amount of time and effort overseeing the listing and trading of event contracts and other financial assets, as well as monitoring DCM access requirements.

This is a factual description of what was issued or decided, not an assessment of it.