The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight this week granted no-action relief from certain requirements applicable to swap dealers and major swap participants regarding the reporting of swap transactions to swap data repositories. The no-action relief, issues June 30, 2014, extends previous no-action relief regarding the reporting of valuation data reporting of cleared swaps.

Under section 2(a)(13)(G) of the Commodity Exchange Act and part 45 of the CFTC’s regulations, reporting counterparties must submit both creation data (primary economic terms of a swap) and continuation data (any changes to the primary economic terms and all valuation data over the life of a swap). In granting the relief requested by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the CFTC acknowledged that swap dealers and major swap participants are experiencing difficulties in establishing the connectivity required to report the required valuation data for cleared swaps pursuant to CFTC regulation 45.4(b)(2)(ii). The no-action relief delays the enforcement of this regulation until June 30, 2015, giving covered parties an additional year in which to comply.