The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets and the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk issued a joint statement expressing their view that current law does not... Read more »
The SEC and the CFTC issued a joint statement on regulatory harmonization efforts, addressing key areas in which the agencies intend to coordinate going forward, and announcing a joint agency roundtable to... Read more »
The CFTC issued an advisory reaffirming the CFTC’s longstanding registration framework for foreign boards of trade (FBOTs) applicable to non-US entities legally organized and operating outside of the US that seek to... Read more »
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued no-action letters and other releases on swap data correction, use of SEF order books and prime brokerage, commodity position limits aggregation, and data reporting for... Read more »
The President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, established under Executive Order 14178, issued a comprehensive report on digital assets and blockchain technology, recommending that the SEC and CFTC use their existing... Read more »
A Texas federal district court ruled in favor of online event contracts marketplace PredictIt in an action challenging CFTC regulatory efforts to restrict its operations, finding the CFTC’s actions arbitrary and capricious.... Read more »
The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement (DOE) issued CFTC Staff Letter No. 25-19, an enforcement advisory providing guidance on DOE’s plan to address referrals of alleged criminal regulatory offenses to the Department of... Read more »
The CFTC’s Market Participants Division (MPD) published responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding futures commission merchant (FCM) registration and compliance requirements. The FAQs address, among other issues, the FCM registration process,... Read more »
CFTC Issues Eighth Extension of Relief to Non-US Swap Dealers from Certain Swap Data Reporting Rules
The CFTC extended relief for non-US swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs) from CFTC swap data reporting requirements under Parts 45 and 46 of the CFTC’s regulations. Source link Read more »
The CFTC filed to voluntarily dismiss its appeal of a federal court ruling that allowed registered derivatives trading platform KalshiEX, LLC to list for trading certain binary options contracts on US election... Read more »