At the same time, they noted that "total harmonization ideal alignment of guidelines across jurisdictions" would be hard, since of jurisdictions' distinctions in law, policy, markets, implementation timing, and legal and regulatory procedures. On December 20, 2013 the CFTC offered details on its swaps regulation "comparability" decisions. The release attended to the CFTC's cross-border compliance exceptions.

Mandatory reporting policies are being finalized in a variety of countries, such as Dodd Frank Act in the United States, the European Market Facilities Regulations (EMIR) in Europe, as well as guidelines in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Canada, and other nations. The OTC Derivatives Regulators Forum (ODRF), a group of over 40 around the world regulators, supplied trade repositories with a set of standards 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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