Reuters: Regulatory News: US regulator gives big banks two years to push out swaps trading

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US regulator gives big banks two years to push out swaps trading Jun 11th 2013, 23:27 WASHINGTON, June 11 | Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:27pm EDT WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) - U.S. officials will give JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America and several other big firms two years to comply with a controversial Dodd-Frank requirement that they push some swaps trading out of the bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Tuesday it had sent letters to seven banks granting them transition periods. The agency had said it expected to give banks extra time to comply with the push-out requirement. The requirement, part of the 2010 financial law, attempts to keep certain risky trading activity out of entities that receive government backstops, such as deposit insurance or access to the Federal Reserve's discount window. Banks must push swaps activity into separate arms, or else forgo federal support, to comply. The rule officially takes effect on July 16. The OCC said it also had granted transition periods to Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, US Bancorp and HSBC.

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