The SEC is well aware of its obligation to complete the rules mandated by Congress in Dodd-Frank and is “actively looking” for ways to navigate ...
Regulators’ interest in bitcoin and other virtual currencies just took another big step. The National Futures Association now requires CPOs and CTAs to “immediately ...
In yet another sign of growing regulator interest in the murky world of digital currencies, the CFTC requests comments on how it may interpret “actual ...
The impending introduction of MiFID II continues to reverberate on this side of the Atlantic (IA Watch, Nov. 30, 2017). The latest example comes ...
The CFTC can tweak its rules to create a “clear and predictable” regulatory approach that would resolve problems of “market fragmentation” and promote the international ...
Like holiday songs filling the air once again in December, so, too, does the National Futures Association remind CPOs and CTAs that claim exemptions from ...
When the CFTC announced last month the 49 enforcement actions and the $413 million in sanctions issued in the year that ended in September, it ...
Why should CCOs at SEFs be left out of all the fun? The CFTC, in a new no-action letter, grants SEF CCOs an additional ...
The new CFTC chairman has taken another shot at how his predecessors oversaw the swaps markets. Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo traveled to a conference ...
CFTC Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo invokes a Roman god to sum up his job description at the agency. Not that he views himself as sacrosanct. ...