Futures Brokers Now Obligated to Collect Margins from Commodity-Based Accounts

In an effort to provide further legal certainty and convenience to customers who engage in futures and/or derivative contract transactions (“Customers”),[1] the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Badan Pengawas Perdagangan Berjangka Komoditi – “Bappebti”) has decided to introduce a new mechanism for the placement of funds and/or securities in order to ensure the implementation of futures and/or derivative contract transactions (“Margins”)[2] through the issuance of Regulation No. 12 of 2024 on Placements of Margins for the Implementation of Transactions Within the Commodity Futures Trading Sector (“Regulation 12/2024”), which has been in force since 17 December 2024.[3]