AI subject tested: Claude Opus 4.7 (web search on)
Question (paraphrased): What dollar-weighted average maturity limit applies to an FCM's overall portfolio of customer segregated fund investments under the 2024 Regulation 1.25 amendments, and which asset classes are excluded from that portfolio-level calculation?
AI response:
"with U.S. Treasuries held under repurchase agreements excluded from the calculation"
Regulator verbatim text:
"The dollar-weighted average of the time-to-maturity of the portfolio may not exceed 24 months. This limit excludes government money market funds, Treasury ETFs, and foreign sovereign debt from the calculation."
Failure mode: inference_drift
Substrate document: p_03_REGULATION_17_CFR_1_25_b__3__iv____dollar_weighted_download.pdf
This finding documents a confirmed hallucination by Claude Opus 4.7 (web search on) on a probe of the regulation. The model's response was tested against the regulator's verbatim primary text and classified as inference_drift. Full per-finding context is available via the linked Citation ID.
Each finding has a stable Citation ID (RLB-F-… for aggregated case-study findings, RLB-H-… for raw per-model hallucinations) — like a DOI, the ID always resolves to the canonical finding even if URLs change.
RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "What dollar-weighted average maturity limit applies to an FCM's overall portfolio of customer segregated fund investment — AI Labs." Citation ID: RLB-H-US-CFTC-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-Q002-Opus47. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-06-07. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j2/us/cftc/fcm-dco-customer-funds-investments-reg-1-25-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-v1-002--opus-47-websearch/
RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). What dollar-weighted average maturity limit applies to an FCM's overall portfolio of customer segregated fund investment [Hallucination finding RLB-H-US-CFTC-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-Q002-Opus47]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j2/us/cftc/fcm-dco-customer-funds-investments-reg-1-25-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-v1-002--opus-47-websearch/
RegLeg Specialist Panel, What dollar-weighted average maturity limit applies to an FCM's overall portfolio of customer segregated fund investment [RLB-H-US-CFTC-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-Q002-Opus47], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (June 07, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j2/us/cftc/fcm-dco-customer-funds-investments-reg-1-25-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-v1-002--opus-47-websearch/.
@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_H_US_CFTC_FCM_DCO_CUSTOMER_FUNDS_INVESTMENTS_REG_1_25_2024_Q002_Opus47,
author = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
title = {What dollar-weighted average maturity limit applies to an FCM's overall portfolio of customer segregated fund investment},
year = {2026},
publisher = {RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research},
note = {Hallucination finding Citation ID: RLB-H-US-CFTC-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-Q002-Opus47},
url = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j2/us/cftc/fcm-dco-customer-funds-investments-reg-1-25-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-FCM-DCO-CUSTOMER-FUNDS-INVESTMENTS-REG-1-25-2024-v1-002--opus-47-websearch/}
}
Every finding on this page compares an AI subject's account of the rule against the regulator's verbatim text from the regulator's own portal. Both are linked. Each delta, its root causes, and impact analysis are documented and published with immutable Citation IDs.