The CFTC will hold a public roundtable meeting at its headquarters on June 10, 2016 at 9:00 a.m. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the following elements of Regulation Automated Trading ("Regulation AT"):
- potential amendments to the proposed definition of "direct electronic access" to make it consistent with Regulation AT's proposed registration regime;
- potential quantitative measures to establish the population of firms ("AT Persons");
- potential alternatives to Regulation AT's requirements for AT Persons in proposed Rules 1.80, 1.81, and 1.83(a) that could require futures commission merchants to impose specific requirements on their customers and perform due diligence regarding their customers' compliance;
- the condition that AT Persons comply with Regulation AT's proposed requirements for Algorithmic Trading and Algorithmic Trading systems when using third-party algorithms and systems; and
- mandatory source code access and retention.
The CFTC announced that it will reopen the comment period on the above matters from June 10, 2016 through June 24, 2016.
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