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Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti,...

Will the CFTC’s New Top Cop Usher in an Era of Increased Investigation and Related Rewards for Whistleblowers?

On February 14, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signaled some “love” for whistleblowers and the future of the CFTC’s whistleblower program when announcing that Brian Young had been appointed as a new...more

The Volkov Law Group

CFTC Fines Trafigura $55MM for Market Abuses, Interfering with Whistleblower Communications

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On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that trading giant Trafigura had agreed to pay a $55 million fine to settle charges of fraud and manipulation. The conduct at issue allegedly...more

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The SEC Announces Another Record-Breaking Year For Its Massively Successful Whistleblower Program

Key Takeaways- • Largest year ever for whistleblower awards (nearly $600 million in total)- • Largest single whistleblower award ever ($279 million to an individual whistleblower) - • Largest year for whistleblower tip...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC Urges Potential Whistleblowers to Report Carbon Credit Misconduct

The Whistleblower Office of the Division of Enforcement of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an alert on June 20, 2023 advising the public on how to identify and report potential violations connected to...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

CFTC Announces Initiatives on Carbon Markets

In press releases issued in late June, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced its enforcement division’s creation of a task force on environmental fraud, and publicized its whistleblower office’s alert to...more

A&O Shearman

Help Wanted: CFTC invites whistleblowers to look for fraud and manipulation in the carbon markets

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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

Mintz

CFTC Asserts Enforcement Authority Over Carbon Markets

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Last week, the CFTC solicited whistleblowers in connection with "potential [] fraud and manipulation" in "voluntary carbon markets," particularly in circumstances "in which high-quality carbon credits, also known as carbon...more

Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes

CFTC to Hold Second Voluntary Carbon Markets Convening on July 19

One week after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Whistleblower Office issued an alert seeking tips on potential fraud and manipulation in the carbon markets, the CFTC chairman announced that the second...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC Enforcement Encourages Carbon Markets Whistleblowers

On June 20, following a number of consultative papers, reports, committee hearings and public speeches by representatives of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the staff of CFTC’s Division of Enforcement...more

K2 Integrity

Fixing Integrity in Top-Level Sports: Applying Lessons from the Financial Services Sector

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Over the past decade sport globally has had a number of high-profile public scandals, namely in doping and abuse. In the UK, British Gymnastics has been placed under the microscope for reports of abuse; a doping scandal has...more

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