{"id":"AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-070","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States; Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (federal staff no-action letter)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-FINANCIAL","eco":"","issuer":"CFTC Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight","authority":"17 C.F.R. § 140.99","instrument":"CFTC Staff Letter No. 20-16 (No-Action)","title":"Temporary Relief for Persons Required to Submit Fingerprints in Connection with Applying for Registration as an Associated Person","dateIssued":"2020-04-24","effective":"2020-04-24","end":"Extended by Letter 20-20 (July 14, 2020) to 2020-09-30","startDate":"2020-04-24","endDate":"2020-07-14","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["OTHER","EMP"],"addressees":["applicants for registration as associated persons","sponsoring FCMs, IBs, CPOs and CTAs","the National Futures Association"],"clause":"[The National Futures Association has advised that] it has suspended its applicant fingerprinting service, and that this fact (combined with the [closure of other fingerprinting locations under State orders]) [prevents applicants from submitting the] fingerprints of the natural person on a fingerprint card [that must] accompany his or her Form 8-R.","enforcement":"No-action position only; 17 C.F.R. § 3.12 otherwise enforceable","functions":["HR hiring and registration of associated persons (fingerprinting unavailable)","OP compliance"],"notes":"Documents that fingerprinting services were closed; the hiring pipeline of every futures intermediary depended on them","sourceUrl":"https://www.cftc.gov/csl/20-16/download","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":95503,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-FINANCIAL","url":"/library/AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-070","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-070","citation":"CFTC Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight, CFTC Staff Letter No. 20-16 (No-Action) (Apr. 24, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-070)","stateName":"","related":["AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-068","AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-069"]}