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An Internal Audit team that accepts the AI's stated timeline — six months to a year after the February 21, 2025 effective date — will build its SIDR and risk disclosure testing window around Q3–Q4 2025, bypassing a March 31, 2025 hard deadline that the CFTC set as a discrete compliance obligation. The immediate operational consequence is a missed deadline embedded undetected in the audit program, with the firm technically non-compliant while Internal Audit's own tracking shows it as on-schedule.
When the CFTC examines the firm's SIDR reporting and risk disclosure updates — both high-visibility obligations under the 2024 amendments — work papers reflecting an incorrect compliance date will compound the original breach, signalling to examiners that the audit function itself lacked accurate regulatory awareness during the implementation period. Remediation at that stage involves not only correcting the SIDR and disclosure deficiencies but reconstructing the audit trail to demonstrate when the error was introduced and what review controls failed to catch it.