DCM Impartial Access Requirements

What it does

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is issuing an interpretation of the requirement that designated contract markets ("DCMs") provide competitive, open, fair, and impartial access to their members and persons with trading privileges under Commission Regulation 38.151(b) ("Impartial Access Requirements"). Specifically, this final interpretive guidance is being issued to inform the public of the Commission's views on the Impartial Access Requirements that should be guiding exchanges' selections of access criteria. The Commission issues this interpretive guidance after a significant amount of time and effort overseeing the listing and trading of event contracts and other financial assets, as well as monitoring DCM access requirements.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 17 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

17 CFR 38

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has published 13 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 11 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective November 10, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket CFTC-2026-2345 on Regulations.gov
• Title 17 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register