Updated 31 Aug 2026

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Defined terms

Article 3 supplies the vocabulary that shapes market scope, onboarding, and product perimeter.

Term	Note	Citation
Underlying commodity	Goods or commodity price index used as the reference asset.	Art. 3(1)-(2)
Commodity derivative	Derivative contract whose value or obligations depend on one or more underlying commodities.	Art. 3(3)
Forward	Bilateral derivative with future delivery or cash settlement by agreed price formula.	Art. 3(4)
Futures	Standardized exchange-listed contract subject to central clearing.	Art. 3(5)
Option	Paid right without obligation for buyer; seller must perform if exercised.	Art. 3(6)
Swap	Future cash-flow exchange tied to commodity price or index formulas.	Art. 3(7)
CFD	Cash-settled difference contract with no physical delivery obligation.	Art. 3(8)
Central clearing	CCP stands between buyers and sellers for clearing and risk control.	Art. 3(9)
Position limit	Maximum contract quantity allowed per participant or maturity bucket.	Art. 3(11)
Settlement finality	Completed settlement or delivery becomes irrevocable and unconditional.	Art. 3(17)
Close-out netting	Early termination and netting into one enforceable net obligation.	Art. 3(18)
Bona fide hedging	Derivative use to reduce commercial exposure from production, financing, or trade activity.	Art. 3(21)
Approved warehouse	Warehouse approved for derivatives delivery support.	Art. 3(22)
Warehouse receipt	Paper or electronic receipt issued after actual intake of goods.	Art. 3(23)
Market linkage	Cross-market connection with exchanges, CCPs, or other market infrastructure.	Art. 3(29)
Professional investor	Investor meeting financial capacity, experience, and expertise tests set by the Government.	Art. 3(31)
OTC market	Derivatives market transacted outside the exchange trading system on negotiated terms.	Art. 3(35)
Source	draft-law-md	Art. 3

Regulator powers

The draft gives the lead authority a broad supervisory and intervention toolkit.

Licensing and approvals

The lead state authority can issue, amend, suspend, extend, withdraw, and recognize licences or approvals under the law.

Art. 8(2)(b) / draft-law-md

Data and explanations

Authorities can demand reports, data, files, explanations, and attendance from exchanges, CCPs, members, and related actors.

Art. 8(2)(d)-(e) / draft-law-md

Emergency intervention

Authorities may require account freezes, trading suspensions, and other preventative measures in line with law.

Art. 8(2)(g), Art. 46 / draft-law-md

Illegal platform blocking

Authorities may require termination or blocking of websites, apps, or payment intermediaries used to provide unauthorized derivatives services.

Art. 8(2)(h) / draft-law-md

Cross-border oversight

The authority can approve, refuse, amend, suspend, or terminate market-linkage arrangements and require extra controls.

Art. 33(2)-(3) / draft-law-md

Exchange and intermediary obligations

Operational duty runs from venue-level systems through customer handling and clearing accountability.

Exchange setup and operation

An exchange must maintain licensing conditions, safe trading systems, transparent rules, real-time surveillance, and regulator data connections.

Art. 10-12 / draft-law-md

Approved warehouses and delivery infrastructure

The exchange must approve delivery members and warehouses, supervise inspection and logistics, and maintain delivery rules.

Art. 12(4), Art. 25-26 / draft-law-md

Position and market-risk controls

The exchange must apply position limits, price limits, circuit breakers, and other risk controls, including exemptions for bona fide hedging.

Art. 12(6), Art. 23(5), Art. 27 / draft-law-md

Member conduct

Trading and brokerage members must segregate customer assets, execute customer orders objectively, classify customers, and control conflicts.

Art. 34(5) / draft-law-md

Clearing member liability

Clearing members are directly and unconditionally liable to the CCP for obligations on their clearing accounts, including customer activity.

Art. 35(5) / draft-law-md

OTC boundaries

The draft permits organized OTC activity, but not as an unbounded workaround to venue and investor-protection rules.

What OTC covers

Forwards, non-standardized options, swaps, and CFDs can be arranged on negotiated terms through the exchange or the OTC market.

Art. 29(1) / draft-law-md

What OTC does not waive

Negotiated freedom still sits inside this law, civil law, and related legislation; the Government may still impose reporting and central-clearing obligations.

Art. 29(2)-(4) / draft-law-md

Who can intermediate

OTC intermediaries can include the exchange, the CCP, members, credit institutions, and other lawful organizations.

Art. 30(1) / draft-law-md

Retail boundary

Non-professional investors cannot trade swaps or CFDs, which sharply narrows whom OTC speculative products can target legally.

Art. 36(3) / draft-law-md

Article-by-article notes

Compact notes for each numbered article in the converted working draft.

Article	Heading	Note	Citation
1	Scope	Covers commodity derivatives, market organization, participant rights, and state management.	Art. 1
2	Applicability	Applies to participants, regulators, and related actors.	Art. 2
3	Definitions	Defines products, clearing concepts, position controls, warehouses, investors, and the OTC market.	Art. 3
4	Market principles	Recognizes both exchange and OTC trading under transparency and risk-control principles.	Art. 4
5	Development policy	Supports modernization, export-linked products, and internationally relevant benchmarks.	Art. 5
6	Sandbox	Allows controlled experimentation for new models, products, technology, and services.	Art. 6
7	Prohibited acts	Bans fraud, insider dealing, manipulation, unauthorized services, and abusive marketing.	Art. 7
8	State management	Sets regulator powers over rulemaking, licensing, supervision, data access, and intervention.	Art. 8
9	Reporting and data links	Requires reporting and transaction-data connectivity to authorities.	Art. 9
10	Exchange licensing	Sets exchange establishment conditions and a 49 percent aggregate foreign cap.	Art. 10
11	Exchange rights	Gives the exchange authority over products, trading rules, fees, membership, and linkage.	Art. 11
12	Exchange duties	Requires safe systems, surveillance, data sharing, disclosure, and training.	Art. 12
13	Exchange suspension and revocation	Provides for suspension, licence withdrawal, and orderly wind-down planning.	Art. 13
14	CCP licensing	Sets CCP establishment conditions, independence, and trade-repository function.	Art. 14
15	Collateral management	Defines margin classes, segregation, asset-quality rules, and anti-rehypothecation limits.	Art. 15
16	Default fund	Requires a separate guarantee fund with prefunded CCP skin-in-the-game and stress capacity.	Art. 16
17	Default management	Sets default triggers, tools, waterfall, and customer-protection principles.	Art. 17
18	CCP rights and duties	Authorizes clearing enforcement while imposing disclosure, data, and risk-governance duties.	Art. 18
19	Finality and close-out netting	Protects irrevocability, collateral enforcement, and customer asset transfer in insolvency.	Art. 19
20	CCP suspension and revocation	Mirrors orderly discipline and continuity protections for the CCP.	Art. 20
21	Self-regulatory powers	Allows the exchange and the CCP to self-regulate under procedural fairness and state override.	Art. 21
22	Listing and delisting	Sets exchange-listing eligibility for standardized products and linked foreign contracts.	Art. 22
23	Trading principles	Provides matching methods plus controls for algorithms, high-frequency trading, blocks, and emergencies.	Art. 23
24	Reference and settlement prices	Requires objective, transparent, and auditable pricing methods.	Art. 24
25	Settlement and delivery	Recognizes cash settlement or physical delivery with CCP coordination.	Art. 25
26	Warehouse receipts	Creates legal support for transferable paper or electronic warehouse receipts.	Art. 26
27	Position limits	Sets position-limit architecture and hedging exemptions.	Art. 27
28	Spot and derivatives markets	Allows combined venue operation with segregation of products, assets, and risk.	Art. 28
29	OTC principles	Permits negotiated forwards, swaps, CFDs, and bespoke options with possible reporting and clearing rules.	Art. 29
30	OTC intermediaries	Defines who may intermediate and requires fair conduct plus trade-repository reporting.	Art. 30
31	Cross-border linkage principles	Conditions linkage on legal compliance, system safety, and anti-AML controls.	Art. 31
32	Cross-border mechanisms	Allows multiple linkage models and overseas foreign-exchange support for eligible margin obligations.	Art. 32
33	Linkage process	Requires approval, due diligence, monitoring, and termination powers.	Art. 33
34	Exchange members	Creates dealing, brokerage, and delivery-member categories with customer-protection duties.	Art. 34
35	CCP members	Creates direct and general clearing-member models and direct liability to the CCP.	Art. 35
36	Investors	Allows domestic and foreign participation, but reserves swaps and CFDs to professional investors.	Art. 36
37	Investor rights and duties	Confirms trading, ownership, disclosure, complaint, and compliance obligations.	Art. 37
38	Investor protection	Requires segregation, traceability, deficit reporting, and transfer or return on insolvency.	Art. 38
39	Professional licensing	Requires professional certificates for practitioners, with details delegated.	Art. 39
40	State-owned enterprises	Permits hedging under documented policy, limits, and capital-preservation safeguards.	Art. 40
41	Credit institutions	Permits banks and foreign bank branches to deal, hedge, intermediate, and clear within approvals.	Art. 41
42	Systemic risk principles	Requires full-stack risk management, surveillance, stress testing, and continuity planning.	Art. 42
43	Operational resilience	Mandates continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience planning.	Art. 43
44	Market surveillance and early warning	Builds concentrated surveillance, alerts, and pre-emptive control powers.	Art. 44
45	CCP risk framework	Specifies margin, valuation, liquidity, default resources, and recovery planning.	Art. 45
46	Emergency intervention	Allows position, margin, trading, and disclosure interventions in stressed conditions.	Art. 46
47	Violation handling	Sets high monetary penalties and confiscatory remedies for abusive conduct.	Art. 47
48	Dispute resolution	Permits negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or court without pausing core risk controls.	Art. 48
49	Compensation	Creates civil liability for misconduct and infrastructure failures causing direct loss.	Art. 49
50	Effectiveness	Proposes effectiveness from 01 Jul 2027 and repeal of legacy Commercial Law derivatives provisions.	Art. 50
51	Transition	Allows legacy operators and products transition periods and preserves existing lawful contracts.	Art. 51
52	Implementation responsibility	Delegates detailed rulemaking to the Government across key operating areas.	Art. 52
Source	draft-law-md	Converted draft law markdown	Primary source

Source ledger

Public web sources and working sources used in preparing the publication.

Working source / Converted local working copy from MOIT draft law file / 2026 working draft / Law No. /2027/QH16

Draft Law on Commodity Derivatives Trading (markdown conversion)

Primary text used for article citations, defined terms, powers, obligations, OTC boundaries, foreign-access analysis, and implementation timing.

Local working source used for analysis and citation support

Public web source / Ministry of Industry and Trade / 02 Jul 2026

Draft project: Law on Commodity Derivatives Trading

Primary draft-project posting and public-comment window.

Open source

Public web source / Domestic Market Management and Development Department / 08 Aug 2026

Government approves five major policy groups

Reports Resolution 220/NQ-CP and the policy frame for the specialized law.

Open source

Public web source / Domestic Market Management and Development Department / Aug 2026

Appraisal meeting for the draft law file

Describes draft scope, chapter count, article count, and boundary issues.

Open source

Public web source / Vietnam Government News / 05 Aug 2026

Decree 302/2026/ND-CP on commodity exchanges

Summarizes exchange establishment, licensing, technology, and procedure requirements.

Open source

This publication provides regulatory and market analysis only. It is not legal advice, investment advice, brokerage, exchange operation, or an offer to trade derivatives.