With the quarter’s end upon us, the NFA is reminding CPOs and CTAs to answer new questions on its annual questionnaire regarding virtual currencies. ...
Cyber bad guys target the CFTC’s website hundreds of times a day, sometimes they even take it down (CPO/CTA Watch, March 19, 2015). “The ...
The latest cooperation agreement between the CFTC and the FSA has the two regulators promising to work together to spur the use of financial technology. ...
The wild west of FinTech may have to be corralled before innovations like Blockchain or distributed ledger technology enjoy the widespread use its proponents imagine. ...
Click on Commodity Exchange Act rule 1.3 (definitions) and you’ll see a long list that begins simply enough with ““(a) Board of Trade.” But by ...
The CFTC has issued a customer advisory warning that fraudsters are using the old scam of a pump-and-dump scheme with new technology, specifically “thinly traded ...
Bob Dylan once sang “something is happening here but you don't know what it is.” That line comes to mind as CFTC Chairman J. ...
Mark Twain famously stated that there are three kinds of lies: “lies, damned lies, and statistics.” That saying comes to mind with news that CFTC ...
An avalanche of eight enforcement actions from the CFTC has hit traders around the world, plus three of the planet’s largest financial services firms. ...
Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies may be all the rage but the SEC’s Division of Investment Management states to slow down. Two advisers that sought ...