The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on September 20 issued final guidance aimed at strengthening market integrity, transparency, and liquidity for derivatives with underlying voluntary carbon credits (VCCs). The...more
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently settled enforcement actions against operators of three decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols (i.e., collections of smart contracts on blockchains that offer...more
After a decade of rulemaking efforts, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing revisions to its regulations concerning federal speculative position limits to conform to the Wall Street Transparency and...more
The Dodd-Frank Act amended the Commodity Exchange Act (the Act) to create a new regulatory framework for swaps, and added Section 2(i) to require the application of the Dodd-Frank Act swap requirements to activities that...more
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Firms must affirm their exemption or exclusion from CPO or CTA registration on the National Futures Association’s Exemption Filing System by February 29....more
The CFTC recently approved a futures contract on a dividend index as a non-security based index futures contract over the SEC’s objection that the dividend index contract could be a security future; the CFTC’s actions may...more
Final rules require tape recording by futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, retail foreign exchange dealers, and commodity trading advisors; affected CFTC registrants must implement systems to comply by December...more