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Reversals of Fraud Charges Highlight Difficulties in Bringing Market Manipulation Cases

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Establishing that criminal defendants engaged in market manipulation is extremely difficult, often due to the difficulty in establishing that the defendant created prices that did not reflect legitimate sources of supply or...more

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FAQs - Final Rules for the Revised UK Commodity Derivatives Position Limits Framework

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As of 6 July 2026 (some rules took effect from March 2025), all final rules of the new FCA commodity derivatives position limits framework will come into effect. In addition, responsibility from the regime will transfer from...more

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The GENIUS Act of 2025 Stablecoin Legislation Adopted in the US

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On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (the GENIUS Act), legislation that establishes a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins. ...more

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U.S. House Passes GENIUS and CLARITY Acts, Signaling Bipartisan Support for Digital Assets

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The GENIUS Act's passage marks the first major crypto legislation approved by both chambers of Congress, signaling a significant step toward regulatory clarity for stablecoins, while the CLARITY Act's advancement by the House...more

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Bipartisan Majorities in Two House Committees Vote to Advance the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act of 2025

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On June 10, 2025, bipartisan majorities of the House Committees on Financial Services and on Agriculture (Committees) voted to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (CLARITY Act)...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

CFTC Issues Guidance on ‘US Persons’ Determinations

On May 21, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Market Participants Division (MPD) and Division of Market Oversight (DMO) jointly issued a staff interpretive letter regarding cross-border definitions and...more

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EC consultation on commodity derivatives market

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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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC’s MRAC Tackles AI and Climate Change

On Friday, March 15, 2024, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) Market Risk Advisory Committee (“MRAC”) convened two roundtables in Washington DC....more

Cornerstone Research

Alleged Market Manipulation and the Pre-hedging of Large Trades

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Pre-hedging, or anticipatory hedging, is one of many risk management tools often used in principal-based OTC markets, such as commodities, foreign exchange (FX), or interest rate swap markets. It refers to trading conducted...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC Issues Proposed Rule to Modify Regulation 4.7 Exemptions

On October 2, 2023, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “Commission” or “CFTC”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) to amend CFTC Regulation 4.7, which provides exemptions to registered...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The Oliver Wyman Report

Thankfully, futures clearinghouses do not fail often; it’s happened three times in history, most recently in 1987. But last year, in the first week of March, the clearinghouse of the London Metal Exchange, LME Clear, had an...more

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UK Financial Services and Markets Bill 2022

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The recently published Financial Services and Markets Bill (FSM Bill) is intended to recast the U.K.’s regulatory architecture post-Brexit. It was introduced to Parliament on 20 July 2022. The Bill implements the outcomes of...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC’s Enforcement of Fraudulent and Manipulative Pump-and-Dump Scheme in Crypto Commodities

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) has two levels of jurisdiction under the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”). First, there is an exclusive (or regulatory) jurisdiction over “derivatives” on “commodities,”...more

King & Spalding

LIBOR Transition: Challenges for Islamic Finance Transactions

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On 5 March 2021, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) announced that all LIBOR settings will either cease to be provided by any administrator or will no longer be representative by 31 December 2021 or, for some...more

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Securities and markets regulatory news, March 2021 # 5

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UK MiFIR: FCA update on use of TTP to modify DTO - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an update on the use of its temporary transitional power (TTP) to modify the UK's derivatives trading obligation (DTO). ...more

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Many Opposing Views on California’s New Water Futures Market

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As of December 7, 2020, water has been included as a traded commodity on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (“the Merc”). According to a recent Chicago magazine article, “Now cities and farmers can buy futures in California’s...more

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Securities and markets regulatory news, February 2021 # 3

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EMIR: Delegated Regulations on clearing obligation and risk mitigation - The following Delegated Regulations made under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) have been published in the Official Journal of the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CME Group to Launch a Global Emissions Offset Futures Contract

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

Opportune LLP

Why COVID-19, Market Volatility Are Catalysts For Goodwill & Asset Impairment Testing

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The global and domestic financial markets have seen significant downward volatility over the past several weeks coming on the heels of continued uncertainty related to the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide. The...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

COVID-19 Implications for the OTC Derivatives Markets

With the continuing spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe, its full implications remain unknown. For OTC derivatives market participants, COVID-19 raises a number of considerations that firms should take into...more

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BitBlog Bi-Weekly Update - March 2020

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Strikeout for Bitcoin ETF -   Another ETF bites the dust. On February 26th the SEC rejected the application of NYSE Acre for the approval of an exchange traded fund sponsored by the New York firm of Wilshire Phoenix to...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.19.2020 | Top Story: Arguments Begin Regarding Facebook’s 2010 Tax Bill

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On Tuesday, a U.S. federal tax court began hearing arguments regarding Facebook’s 2010 tax bill. The IRS valued Facebook at $13.8 billion, while Facebook reported only $6.5 billion. The final tally could potentially cost...more

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Opportunistic Strategies in the CDS Market: Market Manipulation and the Eye of the Beholder

Over the past several years, a number of transactions in the credit default swap (CDS) market have been scrutinized by the public, market participants and regulators. These transactions — which we have labeled as...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.31.2020 | Top Story: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is Out After Eight Years at the Helm

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In a week that’s already seen plenty of C-suite shakeups, we’ve learned that Ginni Rometty is stepping down from her role as CEO at IBM. The company’s cloud computing chief, Arvind Krishna, will take over for her, though...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.6.2020 | Top Story: Oil Futures Jump as Concerns Deepen Over Mideast Volatility

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Oil jumped for a second straight day, with futures near $70/barrel as fallout from the U.S.’s drone-strike assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani continues to raise “the prospect of disruptions in the world’s most important...more

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