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JONES DAY TALKS®: CFTC and DOJ Target Derivatives Trading Across Industries
A Look Ahead at the Biden Administration’s Regulatory and Enforcement Priorities
Path Forward: Borrowing Base Redeterminations In A Restructuring World
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Regulation 2013: Dodd-Frank Position Limits, CFTC Reuthorization, Regulatory Harmonization
The European Commission has published a targeted consultation document on a review of the functioning of commodity derivatives markets (including for these purposes emissions allowances) and certain aspects relating to spot...more
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 Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken a significant step in its oversight of the voluntary carbon markets with a recent enforcement action against defendants who misappropriated funds through a carbon...more
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued proposed guidance on December 4 intended to increase the transparency and bolster the integrity of voluntary carbon credits that underlie derivative contracts subject to...more
In a recently published white paper, JPMorgan outlined its approach to improving and strengthening voluntary carbon markets to promote scalable decarbonization efforts. JPMorgan focused its analysis on voluntary carbon...more
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Whistleblower Office took the unusual step of inviting market participants to look for and submit tips related to fraud, manipulation, and other forms of misconduct in...more
With an “alert” issued June 20, 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is targeting carbon markets by asking whistleblowers to come forward with information about fraudulent or manipulative trading of carbon...more
On January 23, the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), Rostin Behnam, announced in his keynote speech at the Commodity Markets Council’s annual conference that the CFTC “can play a role in voluntary...more
On June 2, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) convened for the first time market participants to discuss the state and the challenges of the U.S. voluntary carbon credit (“VCC”) markets and, at the end of...more
This episode is another in our Energy and Environment Review series, in which Ballard’s energy and environmental lawyers will address the energy evolution driven by climate change, renewable energy innovation,...more
CME Group has announced plans to launch a carbon futures contract intended to offer a transparent, standardised and market-based solution to manage global emissions risk. ...more
Sandra Safro and David Wochner kick-off Hydrogen Rising with a discussion about how hydrogen is on the brink of commercial scale development, highlighting governmental incentives and potential challenges facing the industry....more