The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) (collectively, the “Commissions”) released a joint report on October 16, 2009 (the “Report”) reviewing the key elements of the Commissions’ regulatory schemes and providing recommendations for regulatory harmonization. The Report was produced in response to a request in Treasury’s White Paper on Financial Regulatory Reform.


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