| U.S. commodity regulators are inquiring about Wall Street banks' recent push to remove parent-company backing of some overseas swaps. Scott O'Malia, a Republican commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said in an interview he has asked the agency's acting chairman, Mark Wetjen, a Democrat, to issue a legal opinion as to whether any of the banks' exercises have run afoul of the agency's rules.
On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal reported that banks, including Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley, were changing the terms of some swaps made by their offshore units so they could avoid U.S. regulations, according to people familiar with the situation...............................................Full Article: Source
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