Annual Report for Chief
Compliance Officer of Registrants
Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
06/26/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2025
840
830
169,008
166,996
0
0
On April 3, 2012, the Commission
adopted Regulation 3.3 (Chief Compliance Officer) under sections
4d(d) and 4s(k) of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). Commission
Regulation 3.3 requires each futures commission merchant (“FCM”),
swap dealer (‘‘SD’’), and major swap participant (“MSP”) to
designate, by filing a Form 8–R, a chief compliance officer (“CCO”)
who is responsible for: (1) developing and administering each
registrant’s policies and procedures that fulfill certainrelating
to its business as a duties of the SD, MSP, or FCM and that are
reasonably designed to ensure the registrant’s compliance
withrequired to be established pursuant to the CEA and Commission
regulations; (2) taking reasonable steps to resolve material
conflicts of interest relating to the registrant’s business as a
SD, MSP, or FCM; (3) taking reasonable steps to ensure compliance
with the CEA and Commission regulations relating to the
registrant’s business as a SD, MSP, or FCM; (4) taking reasonable
steps to ensure the registrant establishes, maintains, and reviews
written policies and procedures reasonably designed to remediate
establishing procedures for the remediation of noncompliance issues
identified by the chief compliance officerCCO; (5) taking
reasonable steps to ensure the registrant establishing establishes
procedures for the handling, management response, remediation,
retesting, and closing of noncompliance issues; (6) preparing,
signing, certifying, furnishing to the board of directors, senior
officers, and (if applicable) audit committee, and filing with the
Commission an annual compliance report that contains the
information specified in the regulations Commission regulation
3.3(e; ). Commission regulation 3.3 also requires that SDs, MSPs,
and FCMs: (1) amending the annual report if material errors or
omissions are identified; and (2) request that the Commission grant
an extension of time to furnish the annual report, if failure to
timely furnish could not be eliminated without unreasonable effort
or expense; and (3) maintaining records of the registrant’s
compliance policies and procedures and records related to the
annual report. The information collection obligations imposed by
Commission Regulation 3.3 are essential to ensuring that FCMs, SDs,
and MSPs maintain comprehensive policies and procedures that
promote compliance with the CEA and Commission regulations. In
particular, the Commission believes that, among other things, these
obligations (i) promote compliance behavior through periodic
self-evaluation, (ii) inform the Commission of possible compliance
weaknesses, (iii) assist the Commission in determining whether the
registrant remains in compliance with the CEA and Commission
regulations, and (iv) help the Commission to assess whether the
registrant has mechanisms in place to adequately address compliance
problems that could lead to a failure of the registrant.
There are no program changes.
The total number of respondents (Commission-registered SDs, MSPs,
and FCMs) has increased from 166 to 168 since the previous renewal.
As a result of this increase, the overall burden estimate for this
collection has increased from 166,996 to 169,008 annual burden
hours.
$0
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Kenny Wright 202 326-2907
kwright@ftc.gov
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.