17 CFR § 37.200 - Core Principle 2—Compliance with rules.

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title: "17 CFR § 37.200 - Core Principle 2—Compliance with rules."
title_number: 17
title_name: "Commodity and Securities Exchanges"
section_number: "37.200"
section_name: "Core Principle 2—Compliance with rules."
chapter_name: "COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION"
part_number: "37"
part_name: "SWAP EXECUTION FACILITIES"
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authority: "7 U.S.C. 1a, 2, 5, 6, 6c, 7, 7a-2, 7b-3, and 12a, as amended by Titles VII and VIII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub. L. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376."
regulatory_source: "78 FR 33582, June 4, 2013, unless otherwise noted."
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# 37.200 Core Principle 2—Compliance with rules.

A swap execution facility shall:

(a) Establish and enforce compliance with any rule of the swap execution facility, including the terms and conditions of the swaps traded or processed on or through the swap execution facility and any limitation on access to the swap execution facility;

(b) Establish and enforce trading, trade processing, and participation rules that will deter abuses and have the capacity to detect, investigate, and enforce those rules, including means to provide market participants with impartial access to the market and to capture information that may be used in establishing whether rule violations have occurred;

(c) Establish rules governing the operation of the facility, including rules specifying trading procedures to be used in entering and executing orders traded or posted on the facility, including block trades; and

(d) Provide by its rules that when a swap dealer or major swap participant enters into or facilitates a swap that is subject to the mandatory clearing requirement of section 2(h) of the Act, the swap dealer or major swap participant shall be responsible for compliance with the mandatory trading requirement under section 2(h)(8) of the Act.