---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 8303"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "8303"
heading: "Abusive swaps"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/8303"
units:
  - "Chapter 109 — Wall Street Transparency and Accountability"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of Over-The-Counter Swaps Markets"
  - "Part A — Regulatory Authority"
---

# §8303. Abusive swaps


The Commodity Futures Trading [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) or the [Securities](/usc/15/78lll.md?p=14) and [Exchange](/usc/15/636.md?p=a-36-A-xvi) [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15), or both, individually may, by rule or [order](/usc/15/8702.md?p=14)—

- (1) collect information as may be necessary concerning the markets for any types of—
  - (A) [swap](/usc/15/8301.md) (as defined in [section 1a of title 7](/usc/7/1a.md)); or
  - (B) [security-based swap](/usc/15/8301.md) (as defined in [section 1a of title 7](/usc/7/1a.md)); and
- (2) issue a report with respect to any types of [swaps](/usc/15/8301.md) or [security-based swaps](/usc/15/8301.md) that the Commodity Futures Trading [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) or the [Securities](/usc/15/78lll.md?p=14) and [Exchange](/usc/15/636.md?p=a-36-A-xvi) [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) determines to be detrimental to—
  - (A) the stability of a financial market; or
  - (B) participants in a financial market.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–203, title VII, § 714, July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 1647.)