SEC Adopts Rule of Practice 194

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has voted to adopt Rule of Practice 194. In general, this rule creates a transparent, efficient, and comprehensive process for a registered security-based swap dealer or major security-based swap participant, collectively known as SBS Entities, to apply to the Commission for relief from the statutory disqualification prohibition found in Exchange Act Section 15F(b)(6). Rule of Practice 194 also provides an exclusion for an SBS Entity from the prohibition in Exchange Act Section 15F(b)(6) with respect to associated persons entities, consistent with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) approach with respect to the statutory prohibition for swap entities.