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A Risk team building the firm's FCM oversight framework from AI output on this question would set the reporting calendar to terminate weekly digital asset holdings submissions after the initial three-month phase — when the obligation in fact continues indefinitely. The internal policy, MI reporting pack, and compliance monitoring controls would all be calibrated to the wrong timeline.
When the error surfaces — under a CFTC examination or internal audit challenge asking the team to evidence its reporting cadence against the relief letter — the firm faces both a remediation cost (reconstructing the compliance record for the gap period) and the enforcement exposure that attaches to any ongoing failure to submit required reports to the CFTC. The CFTC's authority to impose civil monetary penalties and refer cases for criminal prosecution means this is not a low-stakes administrative correction.
A Risk team designing the firm's collateral eligibility model using only the 20% haircut floor — without the multi-DCO highest-rate rule — would systematically under-haircut customer-posted digital assets in any clearing scenario where a registered DCO applies a haircut above 20% on the same asset. The model gap is silent: it produces outputs that look internally consistent, and the error only becomes visible when the specific multi-DCO scenario is tested against the letter.
The downstream exposure is collateral adequacy: the firm is holding less protection than the CFTC's framework requires, and its customer account segregation calculations reflect the under-haircut values. Under examination, this is a demonstrable failure to implement the relief conditions correctly, with potential for enforcement action on collateral deficiencies and remediation orders requiring retroactive recalculation of margin calls across the affected period.