{"data":{"id":"us/17-cfr-1.72","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"17 CFR 1.72","heading":"Restrictions on customer clearing arrangements.","body":"No futures commission merchant providing clearing services to customers shall enter into an arrangement that:\n(a) Discloses to the futures commission merchant or any swap dealer or major swap participant the identity of a customer's original executing counterparty;\n(b) Limits the number of counterparties with whom a customer may enter into a trade;\n(c) Restricts the size of the position a customer may take with any individual counterparty, apart from an overall limit for all positions held by the customer at the futures commission merchant;\n(d) Impairs a customer's access to execution of a trade on terms that have a reasonable relationship to the best terms available; or\n(e) Prevents compliance with the timeframes set forth in § 1.74(b), § 23.610(b), or § 39.12(b)(7) of this chapter.","path":["Title 17—Commodity and Securities Exchanges","CHAPTER I—COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION","PART 1—GENERAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-17.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:31Z","sha256":"ad04342b6c75636acc507a5b0db8f8f21ee3426c8e73b25c6ecf2deee80c1c47","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/17-cfr-1.71","next":"us/17-cfr-1.73"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}