{"id":678532,"date":"2026-10-30T19:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Blockchain.News\/news\/sec-grants-treasury-clearing-relief-for-certain-repo-transactions"},"modified":"2026-10-30T19:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T19:51:28","slug":"sec-grants-treasury-clearing-relief-for-certain-repo-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/sec-grants-treasury-clearing-relief-for-certain-repo-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC grants Treasury clearing relief for certain repo transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id>\n<nav class=\"bn-article-breadcrumb\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain.news\/\">Home<\/a> <span aria-hidden=\"true\">\/<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain.news\/#home-latest-heading\">Latest reporting<\/a> <\/nav>\n<p class=\"bn-article-type\">News<\/p>\n<p class=\"lead\">The SEC issued exemptive relief for certain inter-affiliate and non-U.S. repo transactions as it advances Treasury central clearing implementation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bn-article-byline\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain.news\/Profile\/Lawrence-Jengar\" rel=\"author\">Lawrence Jengar<\/a> Oct 30, 2026 19:51 UTC <\/div>\n<figure class=\"bn-article-hero\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain.news\/bn\/images\/editorial\/markets-technology.jpg\" class=\"hero-image-link\"> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/blockchain.news\/bn\/images\/editorial\/markets-technology.jpg\" alt=\"Thematic editorial illustration\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"> <\/a><figcaption>Editorial illustration; not a product screenshot or event photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div data-article-body>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it issued exemptive relief related to certain inter-affiliate and non-U.S. repo transactions, taking another step in the move toward central clearing of U.S. Treasury securities. The agency said the action is intended to assist broker-dealers and other market participants as Treasury clearing reforms continue to be implemented.<\/p>\n<h2>Evidence and context<\/h2>\n<p>In its Oct. 30, 2026 press release, the SEC said the relief covers certain inter-affiliate repo transactions and certain non-U.S. repo transactions. The release did not, in the material provided, set out the detailed conditions of the exemptive relief or quantify how many firms or trades would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes against the backdrop of the SEC\u2019s Treasury clearing framework, adopted on Dec. 13, 2023, which requires covered clearing agencies to establish and enforce rules requiring direct participants to submit eligible secondary-market Treasury transactions for central clearing. The framework also covers eligible Treasury repo and reverse-repo transactions involving direct participants, subject to exemptions, rather than requiring every Treasury transaction to be centrally cleared.<\/p>\n<p>The SEC previously extended the compliance deadlines on Feb. 25, 2025, moving the cash-market deadline to Dec. 31, 2026, and the repo deadline to June 30, 2027, according to the implementation materials supplied. That timeline means the agency\u2019s latest exemptive relief arrives while market participants continue preparing operationally for the new clearing regime.<\/p>\n<p>Recent SEC remarks and orders have also shown the agency adjusting implementation details around the reforms. On Sept. 22, 2026, Commissioner Uyeda highlighted expanded clearing access and customer-level cross-margining in remarks on Treasury market implementation. On April 15, 2026, the SEC granted conditional relief for certain firms dually registered as broker-dealers and futures commission merchants to cross-margin customer Treasury securities and related futures. The material provided indicates that order was conditional and not a blanket waiver of customer-protection requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the new relief, the remaining scope of Treasury clearing obligations and the operational burden on broker-dealers continue to depend on whether a firm is a direct participant, how its transactions are classified, and whether exemptive relief applies. The next verified deadline in the material provided is the Dec. 31, 2026 cash-market compliance date; no additional catalyst date was supplied.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blockchain.news\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home \/ Latest reporting News The SEC issued exemptive relief for certain inter-affiliate and non-U.S. repo transactions as it advances Treasury central clearing implementation. Lawrence Jengar Oct 30, 2026 19:51 UTC Editorial illustration; not a product screenshot or event photograph The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it issued exemptive relief related to certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":678533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1726,25,2093,277,26924],"class_list":{"0":"post-678532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain","8":"tag-market-structure","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-repo","11":"tag-sec","12":"tag-treasury-clearing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}