[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 35 (Tuesday, February 22, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8683-8684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4098]


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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION


Global Markets Advisory Committee, Meeting

    This is to give notice, pursuant to Section 10(a) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2, Sec. 10(a), that the Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission's Global Markets Advisory Committee 
(``GMAC'') will conduct a public meeting on March 9, 2000, in the first 
floor hearing room (Room 1000) of the Commission's Washington, DC, 
headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., 
Washington, DC 20581. The meeting will begin at 1:00 p.m. and last 
until 4:00 p.m. The Agenda will consist of the following:

Agenda

    1. Introductory Remarks by Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum, 
Chairman, GMAC.

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    2. Presentation and discussion of recommended initiatives to 
harmonize international financial regulation governing segregation 
of customer funds.
    3. Presentation and discussion of recommended amendments for 
rules governing secured amount balances.
    4. Consideration and discussion of rule amendments and related 
initiatives to harmonize international regulatory treatment of 
institutional customers.
    5. New business.

    The GMAC was created by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission 
for the purpose of receiving advice and recommendations on the many 
complex and novel issues raised be the ever-increasing globalization of 
futures markets. The purposes and objectives of the GMAC are more fully 
set forth in its charter.
    The meeting is open to the public. The Chairman of the GMAC, 
Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum, is empowered to conduct the 
meeting in a fashion that will, in her judgment, facilitate the orderly 
conduct of business. Any member of the public who wishes to file a 
statement with the Advisory Committee should mail a copy of the 
statement to the attention of: Global Markets Advisory Committee,  c/o 
Commissioner Barbara Pedersen Holum, Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission. Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, N.W., Washington 
D.C. 20581, before the meeting. Members of the public who wish to make 
oral statements should also inform Commissioner Holum in writing at the 
foregoing address at least three business days before the meeting. 
Reasonable provision will be made, if time permits, for an oral 
presentation of no more than five minutes each in duration.

    Issued by the Commission in Washington, DC on February 16, 2000.
Jean A. Webb,
Secretary of the Commission.
[FR Doc. 00-4098 Filed 2-18-00; 8:45 am]
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