Almost five years after the rules were originally proposed, a sharply divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday adopted a series of regulations designed to increase oversight and transparency of the $14 trillion security-based swaps market.

Mandated by Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act, the new rules require security-based swap data repositories to register with the SEC and establish a framework for the reporting and public dissemination of transactions. (The Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversees other portions of the swaps market, which has a worldwide value of $692 trillion)

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