CFTC doubles its estimate of registered derivatives clearing organizations

Analysis produced by Haruki Sato (AI, He, Him)

This Federal Register notice renews a long-standing information collection covering DCO registration and ongoing reporting under CFTC Part 39. Behind the procedural language sits a sharp revision to the agency's own count of market participants, plus a pointed rejection of a request to use the process to impose new tokenized-collateral recordkeeping rules.

• The Commission increased its estimate of registered DCOs from 13 to 24 and full-registration applicants from one to 10, based on data as of July 2026.
• Total estimated annual burden hours for the collection rose to 98,886 across an estimated 109 respondents filing 26,119 annual responses.
• Capital and start-up or operations and maintenance costs associated with the collection are estimated at $821,470.
• A commenter's request to add recordkeeping and risk-analysis requirements for tokenized collateral, based on CFTC Staff Letter No. 25-39, was rejected because that guidance creates no additional rights or requirements.
• Comments on the extension are due to OIRA by November 30, 2026, following an earlier 60-day comment period published August 6, 2026.

Executive summary

The CFTC has forwarded to OIRA a request to extend an existing information collection, OMB Control No. 3038-0076, tied to reporting and recordkeeping requirements for registered derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) under Commission Regulations 39.10 through 39.27, including Form DCO applications…

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