At the exact same time, they noted that "total harmonization perfect alignment of rules across jurisdictions" would be hard, because of jurisdictions' differences in law, policy, markets, application timing, and legal and regulative procedures. On December 20, 2013 the CFTC provided information on its swaps regulation "comparability" determinations. The release resolved the CFTC's cross-border compliance exceptions.

Mandatory reporting guidelines are being settled in a number of countries, such as Dodd Frank Act in the US, the European Market Infrastructure Laws (EMIR) in Europe, as well as guidelines in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Canada, and other nations. The OTC Derivatives Regulators Online Forum (ODRF), a group of over 40 around the world regulators, supplied trade repositories with a set of guidelines concerning data access to regulators, and the Financial Stability Board and CPSS IOSCO also made recommendations in with regard to reporting.

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