---
kind: "section"
citation: "17 C.F.R. § 39.8"
title: "17"
number: "39.8"
heading: "Fraud in connection with the clearing of transactions on a derivatives clearing organization."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/17/39.8"
---

# §39.8. Fraud in connection with the clearing of transactions on a derivatives clearing organization.


It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, in or in connection with the clearing of transactions by a derivatives clearing organization:

- (a) To cheat or defraud or attempt to cheat or defraud any person;
- (b) Willfully to make or cause to be made to any person any false report or statement or cause to be entered for any person any false record; or
- (c) Willfully to deceive or attempt to deceive any person by any means whatsoever.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 2, 6(c), 7a-1, and 12a(5); 12 U.S.C. 5464; 15 U.S.C. 8325; Section 752 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Pub. L. 111-203, title VII, sec. 752, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1749.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 69430, Nov. 8, 2011, unless otherwise noted.