[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 144 (Monday, July 28, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43718-43722]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-17643]


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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION


Amended and Restated Order Designating the Provider of Legal 
Entity Identifiers To Be Used in Recordkeeping and Swap Data Reporting 
Pursuant to the Commission's Regulations

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

ACTION: Order.

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SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'') has 
issued an Amended and Restated Order to extend the Commission's 
designation of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (``DTCC'') 
and Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication 
(``SWIFT'') joint venture (``DTCC-SWIFT'') as the provider of legal 
entity identifiers, or ``LEIs,'' pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act 
and the Commission's regulations. DTCC-SWIFT's designation was made by 
Commission order issued on July 23, 2012. The designation was made for 
a term of two years. The Amended and Restated Order amends the 
Commission's order of July 23, 2012, as previously amended on June 7, 
2013, to extend DTCC-SWIFT's designation for an additional one year, 
while the terms of transition to a fully operational global LEI system 
are finalized and implemented. Consistent with the terms of the 
Commission's order of July 23, 2012, as amended on June 7, 2013, the 
Amended and Restated Order permits registered entities and swap 
counterparties subject to the Commission's jurisdiction to comply with 
the specified legal entity identifier requirements of the Commission's 
regulations by using identifiers issued by DTCC-SWIFT, or any other 
pre-Local Operating Unit (``pre-LOU'') that has been endorsed by the 
Regulatory Oversight Committee of the global LEI system as being 
globally acceptable and as issuing globally acceptable legal entity 
identifiers.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Srinivas Bangarbale, Chief Data 
Officer, Office of Data and Technology, (202) 418-5315, 
[email protected], or Nora Flood, Attorney Advisor, Division of 
Market Oversight, (202) 418-5354, [email protected], Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20581.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents:

I. Background
    A. Legal Entity Identifiers: CEA Section 21(b) and Section 45.6 
of the Commission's Regulations
    B. Designation of the DTCC-SWIFT Utility
    C. Amendment of Designation Order To Account for Developments in 
the Establishment of a Global LEI System
II. Extension of Designation of the DTCC-SWIFT Utility
III. Amended and Restated Order

I. Background

A. Legal Entity Identifiers: CEA Section 21(b) and Section 45.6 of the 
Commission's Regulations

    Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer 
Protection Act (``Dodd-Frank Act'') \1\ amended the Commodity Exchange 
Act (``CEA'') \2\ to establish a comprehensive new regulatory framework 
for swaps. Amendments to the CEA included the addition of provisions 
requiring the retention, and the reporting to Commission-registered 
swap data repositories (``SDRs''), of data regarding swap transactions, 
in order to enhance transparency, promote standardization and reduce 
systemic risk.\3\ Pursuant to

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these newly added provisions, the Commission added to its regulations 
part 45,\4\ which sets forth recordkeeping rules, and rules for the 
reporting of swap transaction data to a registered SDR, and part 46,\5\ 
which sets forth recordkeeping and swap data reporting rules for 
historical swaps.
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    \1\ Public Law 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376 (2010).
    \2\ 7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.
    \3\ See, e.g., new Section 2(a)(13)(G) of the CEA, which 
requires all swaps, whether cleared or uncleared, to be reported to 
a registered SDR; new Section 21(b) of the CEA, which directs the 
Commission to prescribe standards for swap data reporting and 
attendant recordkeeping; and new Sections 4r and 2(h)(5) of the CEA, 
which, among other things, establish reporting requirements for 
swaps in effect as of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act (``pre-
enactment swaps''), as well as swaps in effect after such enactment 
but prior to the effective date for compliance with the Commission's 
final recordkeeping and swap data reporting rules (``transition 
swaps'' and, collectively with pre-enactments swaps, ``historical 
swaps'').
    \4\ Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements, 77 FR 
2136 (January 13, 2012).
    \5\ Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements: Pre-
Enactment and Transition Swaps, 77 FR 35200 (June 12, 2012).
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    Under the authority granted by new section 21(b) of the CEA, which, 
among other things, directs the Commission ``to prescribe standards 
that specify the data elements for each swap that shall be collected 
and maintained'' by a registered SDR,\6\ the Commission, in its part 45 
regulations, prescribed the use of a legal entity identifier, or 
``LEI,'' in required recordkeeping and swap data reporting. Section 
45.6 provides that ``[e]ach counterparty to any swap subject to the 
jurisdiction of the Commission shall be identified in all recordkeeping 
and all swap data reporting pursuant to [part 45] by means of a single 
legal entity identifier as specified in this section.'' \7\ In adopting 
this requirement, the Commission highlighted the LEI as a crucial 
regulatory tool to facilitate data aggregation by regulators, in 
furtherance of the systemic risk mitigation and other important 
purposes of the Dodd-Frank Act.\8\
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    \6\ CEA Section 21(b).
    \7\ 77 FR at 2204. In addition, in part 46 of the Commission's 
regulations, Section 46.4 provides that each counterparty to a 
historical swap in existence on or after April 25, 2011, for which 
an initial data report is required pursuant to part 46, must obtain 
a legal entity identifier, which must be used for purposes of 
recordkeeping and swap data reporting under part 46 as prescribed in 
Section 46.4. 77 FR at 35228-9.
    \8\ See 77 FR at 2138.
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    Section 45.6 sets forth requirements that the legal entity 
identifier to be used to comply with the Commission's recordkeeping and 
swap data reporting rules must meet, including satisfaction of 
specified technical and governance principles. In adopting these 
requirements, the Commission took into consideration work that had 
commenced at the international level to establish a global LEI 
system.\9\ The Commission expressed its agreement that ``optimum 
effectiveness of [the LEI] as a tool for achieving the systemic risk 
mitigation, transparency and market protection goals of the Dodd-Frank 
Act--goals shared by financial regulators world-wide--would come from 
creation of [an LEI] . . . that is capable of becoming the single 
international standard for unique identification of legal entities 
across the world financial sector.'' \10\ The Commission cited its 
involvement in an international initiative, coordinated by the 
Financial Stability Board (``FSB''),\11\ to establish standards, and a 
governance framework, for a global LEI system--including the 
Commission's participation in an ad hoc, expert group of regulatory 
authorities convened by the FSB to develop recommendations regarding 
the implementation of such a system.\12\
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    \9\ See 77 FR at 2163.
    \10\ 77 FR at 2163.
    \11\ The FSB is an international body that develops and promotes 
the implementation of effective regulatory, supervisory and other 
policies in the interest of financial stability. Established in 2009 
as a successor to the Financial Stability Forum, the FSB coordinates 
the work of national financial authorities, international standards 
setting bodies and international financial institutions. Its 
membership includes G-20 members, the International Monetary Fund 
and the World Bank. The FSB Secretariat is located in Basel, 
Switzerland. The FSB's Web site can be accessed at http://www.financialstabilityboard.org.
    \12\ See 77 FR at 2162.
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B. Designation of the DTCC-SWIFT Utility

    Pursuant to Section 21(b) of the CEA and Section 45.6 of the 
Commission's regulations, on July 23, 2012, the Commission issued an 
order (``Order'') \13\ designating the utility operated by DTCC-SWIFT 
as the provider of the legal entity identifier to be used in 
recordkeeping and swap data reporting pursuant to parts 45 and 46 of 
the Commission's regulations, and directing registered entities and 
swap counterparties subject to the Commission's jurisdiction to use 
identifiers provided by DTCC-SWIFT to comply with the Commission's 
recordkeeping and swap data reporting requirements. DTCC-SWIFT's 
designation was subject to specified conditions, including DTCC-SWIFT's 
continuing compliance with all of the legal entity identifier 
requirements set forth in part 45 of the Commission's regulations.\14\
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    \13\ Availability of a Legal Entity Identifier Meeting the 
Requirements of the Regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission and Designation of Provider of Legal Entity Identifiers 
To Be Used in the Recordkeeping and Swap Data Reporting, 77 FR 53870 
(September 4, 2012).
    \14\ See 77 FR at 53873.
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    In the preamble to the Order, the Commission highlighted its 
ongoing participation in the international process, coordinated by the 
FSB, to develop standards and a governance framework for a global LEI 
system, as well as its expectation that, after recommendations 
regarding the global system were endorsed by the FSB and implemented, 
the identifier to be used to comply with the Commission's recordkeeping 
and swap data reporting rules would transition into the global LEI.\15\ 
The Commission noted that, in light of the work being undertaken at the 
international level to establish a global LEI system, and as requested 
by other regulatory authorities participating in that work, the 
Commission would, on a transitional basis, refer to the legal entity 
identifier to be used to comply with the Commission's recordkeeping and 
swap data reporting rules as the CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier 
(``CICI''), rather than the ``LEI.'' \16\ The Order provided that such 
identifier would be known as the CICI ``until the establishment of the 
global LEI system or further action by the Commission.'' \17\
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    \15\ See 77 FR at 53871, citing Commission Press Release, CFTC 
Announces Process to Designate the Provider of CFTC Interim 
Compliant Identifiers, March 9, 2012, available at http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr6200-12.
    \16\ Id.
    \17\ 77 FR at 53873.
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C. Amendment of Designation Order To Account for Developments in the 
Establishment of a Global LEI System

    On June 7, 2013, the Commission issued an amendment to the Order 
(``Amendment''),\18\ to take into account the significant progress that 
had been made in establishing the global LEI system. In the preamble to 
the Amendment, the Commission summarized the developments that had 
taken place at the international level since the Order was issued. It 
noted that the process to establish the global LEI system was now being 
led by an international Regulatory Oversight Committee (``ROC''), of 
which the Commission was a member, and that the ROC had determined that 
the global LEI system would be federated in nature--comprised of a 
private sector Central Operating Unit (``COU''), and multiple Local 
Operating Units (``LOUs'') that would issue LEIs. The Commission noted 
that under the auspices of the ROC, a foundation (``Global LEI 
Foundation'') was being established in Switzerland to provide the COU, 
and that the COU would, within the global

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LEI system, coordinate the system's multiple LOUs.\19\
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    \18\ Amended Order Designating the Provider of Legal Entity 
Identifiers to Be Used in Recordkeeping and Swap Data Reporting 
Pursuant to the Commission's Regulations, 78 FR 38954 (June 28, 
2013).
    \19\ See 78 FR at 38955.
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    The Commission further noted that, as a step in the establishment 
of the global LEI system, each of seven identifier-issuing utilities--
including the Commission-designated utility operated by DTCC-SWIFT--had 
been sponsored to the ROC by the ROC member exercising oversight over 
such utility, and had been provided with a distinct prefix for use when 
issuing identifiers, in order to ensure the uniqueness of identifier 
codes across utilities. The Commission expressed its expectation that 
the number of ROC member-sponsored ``pre-LOUs'' would increase in the 
coming months. The Commission also expressed its expectation that the 
Commission-designated ``pre-LOU'' operated by DTCC-SWIFT would become a 
LOU, and that the identifiers issued by it would become LEIs, within 
the global LEI system.\20\
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    \20\ Id.
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    In the preamble to the Amendment, the Commission emphasized the 
importance, during the transitional period before the global LEI system 
became fully operational, of preserving the uniqueness of the 
identifier issued to any particular legal entity. The Commission stated 
that, once requirements mandating the use of LEIs were in effect in 
more than one jurisdiction, the only way to ensure that a single legal 
entity was not issued more than one identifier, pursuant to the 
requirements of more than one jurisdiction, was through regulatory 
cooperation--namely, the acceptance, by ROC member authorities 
mandating the use of LEIs, of identifiers issued by any ROC-recognized 
pre-LOU.\21\
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    \21\ Id.
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    The Amendment modified the Order to provide for such mutual 
regulatory acceptance. The Commission noted in the preamble to the 
Order the ROC's forthcoming finalization of ``a framework for global 
acceptance of [identifiers] assigned by a pre-LOU that is sponsored by 
a ROC member who assures the ROC that the pre-LOU meets specified 
principles regarding compliance with the [global] LEI standard, 
technical capacity, and agreement to adhere to ROC high-level 
principles.'' \22\ The Amendment modified the Order to provide that, 
after the ROC had adopted such a framework, and had also approved the 
DTCC-SWIFT utility and the identifiers issued by it as globally 
acceptable, registered entities and swap counterparties subject to the 
Commission's jurisdiction could use identifiers issued by DTCC-SWIFT, 
or any other pre-LOU approved by the ROC as globally acceptable and as 
issuing globally acceptable identifiers, to comply with the 
Commission's recordkeeping and swap data reporting rules.\23\
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    \22\ 78 FR at 38955.
    \23\ See 78 FR at 38956. The Amendment also modified the Order 
to provide that the use of identifiers issued by approved pre-LOUs 
other than DTCC-SWIFT or WM Datenservice (a pre-LOU sponsored to the 
ROC by BaFin, Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority) 
could commence only after the Commission's Chief Information Officer 
published a notice on the Commission's Web site stating that such 
identifiers and such pre-LOUs had been approved by the ROC as 
globally acceptable. Id.
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    The preamble to the Amendment stated that it was the Commission's 
understanding that, once the ROC had adopted standards for the approval 
of pre-LOUs and the identifiers issued by them as globally acceptable, 
any identifiers approved by the ROC as meeting such standards would be 
referred to as ``LEIs.'' Accordingly, the Amendment further modified 
the Order to provide that, effective immediately upon ROC approval of 
the identifiers issued by DTCC-SWIFT as globally acceptable, ``the 
[identifiers] issued by DTCC-SWIFT shall be known as LEIs and not as 
CICIs.'' \24\
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    \24\ 78 FR at 38956.
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    On October 30, 2013, the Commission's Chief Information Officer 
published on the Commission's Web site a notice \25\ stating that the 
ROC had adopted standards for the approval of pre-LOUs and the 
identifiers issued by them as globally acceptable, and had approved 
DTCC-SWIFT and the identifiers issued by it as meeting such standards 
(such approval being known, at the international level, as ROC 
``endorsement''). Accordingly, the notice stated that from October 30, 
2013, onward, registered entities and swap counterparties subject to 
the Commission's jurisdiction could comply with the legal entity 
identifier requirements of the Commission's recordkeeping and swap data 
reporting rules ``by using any [identifier] endorsed by the ROC as 
globally acceptable.'' \26\
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    \25\ Notice Regarding LEIs That May Be Used to Comply With CFTC 
LEI Requirements, October 30, 2013, available at http://www.cftc.gov/ucm/groups/public/@newsroom/documents/file/noticerocamendedorder.pdf.
    \26\ Id.
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    Since its endorsement by the ROC as a globally acceptable pre-LOU, 
the DTCC-SWIFT utility--which had initially been referred to, on the 
utility's Web site and in educational and other materials, as the 
``CFTC Interim Compliant Identifier (CICI) utility'' \27\ has commenced 
referring to itself as the ``Global Markets Entity Identifier (GMEI) 
utility.'' It is the Commission's understanding that this transition in 
terminology is intended to clarify for market participants that the 
identifiers issued by the DTCC-SWIFT utility may be used not only to 
comply with the Commission's recordkeeping and swap data reporting 
rules, but also to comply with the requirements of other regulatory 
authorities that recognize legal entity identifiers issued by ROC-
endorsed pre-LOUs.
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    \27\ In the Order, the Commission provided that the legal entity 
identifier to be used to comply with the Commission's recordkeeping 
and swap data reporting rules would be known as the CICI ``until the 
establishment of the global LEI system or further action by the 
Commission.'' 77 FR at 53873. The Commission's designation of the 
DTCC-SWIFT utility as the provider of such identifier was 
conditioned on the utility's Web site, ``and other facilities and 
documents used to provide identifiers for use in complying with 
parts 45 and 46,'' referring to the CICI and not to the ``LEI, the 
preliminary LEI, or other similar terms including the term LEI.'' 
Id.
    See the discussion, infra, of the action taken by the 
Commission, through its issuance of the Amendment, to provide for 
the transition away from the use of the term ``CICI'' to refer to 
the legal entity identifier to be used to comply with parts 45 and 
46, prior to the conclusion of the process of establishing the 
global LEI system.
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    The transition in the terminology used by DTCC-SWIFT to refer to 
its utility also reflects the transition--anticipated by the Commission 
in the Amendment--away from the use of the term ``CICI'' to refer to 
the legal entity identifier to be used to comply with the Commission's 
recordkeeping and swap data reporting rules. As discussed above, at the 
time of issuing the Amendment, it was the Commission's understanding 
that, after the ROC commenced endorsing pre-LOUs and the identifiers 
issued by them as globally acceptable, any such globally acceptable 
identifiers would be referred to as ``LEIs''. Accordingly, the 
Amendment modified the Order to provide for the identifiers issued by 
DTCC-SWIFT to be known as LEIs rather than CICIs, once such identifiers 
were endorsed as globally acceptable by the ROC. While, subsequent to 
the issuance of the Amendment, the ROC did commence endorsing pre-LOUs 
and the identifiers issued by them as globally acceptable, the ROC also 
deferred from referring to endorsed identifiers as ``LEIs'' until the 
process of establishing the global LEI system had progressed further. 
Thus, for an interim period, identifiers endorsed by the ROC as 
globally acceptable and issued by a globally acceptable pre-LOU--
including the identifiers issued by DTCC-SWIFT--have been referred to 
at the international level as ``pre-LEIs.''

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II. Extension of Designation of the DTCC-SWIFT Utility

    In the Order, the Commission designated DTCC-SWIFT as the provider 
of legal entity identifiers to be used to comply with parts 45 and 46 
of the Commission's regulations for a term of two years, running from 
the date of issuance of the Order on July 23, 2012.\28\ The Order 
provided that if, at the conclusion of the term of DTCC-SWIFT's 
designation, the global LEI system was not yet operational, ``the 
Commission may consider the feasibility of having multiple CICI 
providers and the feasibility of coordination among them to avoid 
duplicative LEIs, and if it believes this is feasible, may consider 
submissions from DTCC-SWIFT as well as from other parties that seek to 
become CICI providers.'' \29\
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    \28\ See 77 FR at 53873. The Order also permitted the 
Commission's earlier termination of such designation ``in connection 
with the establishment of a global LEI system.'' Id.
    \29\ Id.
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    The process to establish the global LEI system has continued to 
move forward since the issuance of the Amendment on June 7, 2013. As 
discussed above, in the second half of 2013, the ROC adopted 
endorsement standards for pre-LOUs and the identifiers issued by them, 
and has since endorsed sixteen member-sponsored pre-LOUs--including 
DTCC-SWIFT--as globally acceptable.\30\ The Global LEI Foundation that 
will provide the COU, managing the central operations of the global LEI 
system, has also been formally established under Swiss law. The ROC and 
the Global LEI Foundation are currently in the process of developing a 
framework for the transition of full operational management of the 
global LEI system to the COU, with supervisory oversight by the ROC in 
the public interest. On June 30, 2014, the ROC issued a press release 
stating that, with the establishment of the Global LEI Foundation and 
the commencement of the transition to full operational management by 
the COU, legal entity identifiers issued by pre-LOUs that have been 
endorsed by the ROC as globally acceptable, would henceforth be 
referred to as ``LEIs'' rather than ``pre-LEIs.'' \31\ The Commission 
notes that previously issued pre-LEIs (including CICIs issued by DTCC-
SWIFT) do not now need to be reissued; they will, going forward, be 
referred to as ``LEIs'' rather than ``pre-LEIs'' (or ``CICIs''), but 
will otherwise remain unchanged.
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    \30\ To date, the sixteen endorsed pre-LOUs have, collectively, 
issued nearly 300,000 legal entity identifiers. See ROC Press 
Release, Regulatory Oversight Committee Welcomes First Meeting of 
Global LEI Foundation, June 30, 2014, available at http://www.leiroc.org/publications/gls/gleif_20140629_1.pdf.
    \31\ Id.
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    While progress continues to be made in the establishment of the 
global LEI system, the system will not be fully operational before the 
expiration of DTCC-SWIFT's two-year term of designation under the 
Order. Taking into consideration the significant progress that has been 
made in establishing the global LEI system to date--including the ROC's 
endorsement of the DTCC-SWIFT utility as a globally acceptable pre-
LOU--and in anticipation that the DTCC-SWIFT utility will become a LOU 
within the global system, the Commission believes that it is 
appropriate, in order to further the smooth transition to a fully 
operational global LEI system, to extend its designation of the DTCC-
SWIFT utility.
    The Order contemplated that, if the global LEI system was not yet 
operational before the term of DTCC-SWIFT's designation expired, the 
Commission could consider the feasibility of having multiple providers 
of legal entity identifiers, and the feasibility of coordination among 
them to avoid the issuance of duplicative identifiers. The Order was 
issued before the governance framework for the global LEI system had 
been determined--and, in particular, before it was determined that the 
system would be federated in nature, comprised both of a central COU, 
and of multiple LOUs issuing LEIs. Consistent with this federated 
framework, during the current, transitional period before the global 
LEI system becomes fully operational, the ROC has established standards 
for the global acceptance of pre-LOUs that satisfy specified principles 
and requirements, and has endorsed a number of pre-LOUs as meeting 
those standards. In addition, the ROC has carried forward its practice, 
described in the Amendment, of providing each pre-LOU with a distinct 
prefix for use when issuing identifiers, in order to ensure the 
uniqueness of identifier codes across pre-LOUs. During the transitional 
period, the ROC has also played an important role in promoting the 
mutual acceptance, by ROC member authorities mandating the use of LEIs, 
of identifiers issued by any pre-LOU endorsed by the ROC as globally 
acceptable.\32\
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    \32\ See, e.g., 78 FR at 38955.
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    Thus, while the global LEI system is not yet fully operational, its 
implementation has progressed to the point where the system can 
accommodate multiple pre-LOUs, operating in accordance with standards 
that are designed to promote consistency, and to avoid duplication, in 
the issuance of legal entity identifiers. Accordingly, the Commission 
believes that the feasibility of having multiple providers of legal 
entity identifiers, and the feasibility of coordination among them to 
avoid the issuance of duplicative identifiers, has already been 
addressed in connection with the establishment of the global LEI 
system--into which the identifiers to be used to comply with the 
Commission's recordkeeping and swap data reporting rules, and any 
provider thereof, are expected to transition.\33\ The Commission's 
modification of the Order, by way of the Amendment, to permit the use 
of identifiers issued by any pre-LOU endorsed by the ROC as globally 
acceptable, and as issuing globally acceptable identifiers, reflects 
the Commission's support for the feasibility of such a multiple 
provider system.
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    \33\ This does not preclude the Commission from considering a 
submission from another existing or prospective provider of legal 
entity identifiers that wishes also to be designated by the 
Commission, along with DTCC-SWIFT, but the Commission notes that its 
consideration of any such submission would take into account not 
only the relevant requirements of Section 45.6 of the Commission's 
regulations, but also, for the reasons set forth herein, the 
principles, standards and current state of implementation of the 
global LEI system.
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    For the reasons described above, the Commission is amending the 
Order, as modified by the Amendment, to extend its designation of the 
DTCC-SWIFT utility while the terms of transition to a fully operational 
global LEI system are finalized and implemented. The Commission is also 
updating the Order to align the legal entity identifier terminology 
used therein with the terminology that is currently used at the 
international level, and to remove from the Order certain provisions 
that, given the current state of implementation of the global LEI 
system, are no longer applicable.

III. Amended and Restated Order

    It is ordered, pursuant to Section 21(b) of the CEA and Section 
45.6 of the Commission's regulations, that the Order, as modified by 
the Amendment, is amended and restated in its entirety to read as 
follows:
    It is hereby ordered that:
    1. Subject to Section 2(a), below, the Depository Trust and 
Clearing Corporation (``DTCC'') and Society for Worldwide Interbank 
Financial Telecommunications (``SWIFT'') joint venture (``DTCC-SWIFT'') 
is designated as the provider of legal entity identifiers (``LEIs''), 
to be used in recordkeeping

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and swap data reporting pursuant to parts 45 and 46 of the Commission's 
regulations.
    a. This designation is conditioned on DTCC-SWIFT's continuing 
compliance, for as long as it is authorized to provide LEIs by this 
order or any future order of the Commission, with all of the legal 
entity identifier requirements of part 45 of the Commission's 
regulations, and any related requirements as set forth in this order or 
in the requirements document provided to DTCC-SWIFT during the 
determination and designation process; including, without limitation, 
the requirement to be subject to supervision by a governance structure 
that includes the Commission and other financial regulators in any 
jurisdiction requiring use of legal entity identifiers pursuant to 
applicable law, for the purpose of ensuring that issuance and 
maintenance of LEIs and of associated reference data adheres on an 
ongoing basis to the Commission's requirements set forth in part 45.
    b. This designation is further conditioned on the requirement that, 
subject to applicable confidentiality laws and other applicable law, 
(1) DTCC-SWIFT shall make public all LEIs and associated reference 
data, utility operations, and identity validation processes, and (2) if 
DTCC-SWIFT fails to satisfy the conditions of this designation, or upon 
any termination of this designation pursuant to Section 2(c)(2) below, 
DTCC-SWIFT shall, as instructed by the Commission, pass to a successor 
LEI utility specified by the Commission, or to the global LEI system, 
free of charge, all LEIs issued by DTCC-SWIFT and associated reference 
data and all LEI intellectual property rights.
    c. This designation is made for a limited term of one year from the 
date of this Amended and Restated Order, and may be terminated by the 
Commission on three months' notice in connection with (1) the 
establishment of the global LEI system, or (2) DTCC-SWIFT's exit from 
the global LEI system.
    2. To comply with the legal entity identifier requirements of parts 
45 and 46 of the Commission's regulations:
    a. Registered entities and swap counterparties subject to the 
Commission's jurisdiction may use LEIs provided by DTCC-SWIFT, or any 
other pre-Local Operating Unit (``pre-LOU'') approved by the Regulatory 
Oversight Committee of the global LEI system (``ROC'') as globally 
acceptable and as issuing globally acceptable LEIs. The list of pre-
LOUs that are currently approved by the ROC as globally acceptable and 
as issuing globally acceptable LEIs, including the Web site address via 
which registered entities and swap counterparties may contact each such 
pre-LOU, is available at http://www.leiroc.org/publications/gls/lou_20131003_2.pdf.
    b. As provided in section 45.6(b)(1) of the Commission's 
regulations, registered entities and swap counterparties subject to the 
Commission's jurisdiction shall be identified in all swap recordkeeping 
and swap data reporting by a single LEI.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2014, by the Commission.
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick,
Acting Secretary of the Commission.

Appendix to Amended and Restated Order Designating the Provider of 
Legal Entity Identifiers To Be Used in Recordkeeping and Swap Data 
Reporting Pursuant to the Commission's Regulations--Commission Voting 
Summary

    On this matter, Chairman Massad and Commissioners Wetjen, Bowen, 
and Giancarlo voted in the affirmative. No Commissioner voted in the 
negative. Commissioner O'Malia did not participate in this matter.

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