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Regulatory Capital Requirements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Brokers And Dealers [Abstract]  
Regulatory Capital Requirements

3. Regulatory Capital Requirements

Certain U.S. subsidiaries of the Company are registered as a broker-dealer or swap execution facility (“SEF”) and therefore are subject to the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”). These rules contain minimum net capital requirements, as defined in the applicable regulations, and also may require that a significant part of the registrants’ assets be kept in relatively liquid form. Certain of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) in the U.K. or other foreign regulators and must maintain financial resources, as defined in the applicable regulations, in excess of the applicable financial resources requirement. As of September 30, 2020, each of the Company’s subsidiaries that are subject to these regulations had net capital or financial resources in excess of their minimum requirements. As of September 30, 2020, the Company’s subsidiaries maintained aggregate net capital and financial resources that was $305.6 million in excess of the required levels of $23.7 million.

In August 2020, one of the Company’s U.S. broker-dealer subsidiaries converted to a self-clearing model for the U.S. bond trades to which it is a counterparty via its Open Trading™ functionality. Previously, these bond transactions were settled through a third-party clearing broker. As a result of this conversion, the broker-dealer subsidiary is required to segregate funds in a special reserve bank account for the benefit of customers pursuant to Rule 15c3-3 of the Securities  Exchange  Act  of  1934. As of September 30, 2020, the broker-dealer subsidiary had a balance of $50.0 million in its special reserve bank account.

Each of the Company’s U.S. and foreign regulated subsidiaries are subject to local regulations which generally prohibit repayment of borrowings from the Company or affiliates, paying cash dividends, making loans to the Company or affiliates or otherwise entering into transactions that result in a significant reduction in regulatory net capital or financial resources without prior notification to or approval from such regulated entity’s principal regulator.