President Trump ordered agencies to re-examine regulations, a review now completed by CFTC Acting Chairman Christopher Giancarlo. In a speech May 10 in Lisbon, Portugal, ...
Harmony sounds good. A proposal from the CFTC seeks to align its rule for CCOs with the SEC’s. The agency suggests a number of proposed ...
A dual-registrant agreed this week to pay a $1 million fine for violating National Futures Association rules after the CEO of the London-based CPO/CTA/RIA took ...
“Substituted compliance” is the phrase the CFTC uses to allow registrants to comply with its rules by satisfying another regulators’. But the Commission hasn’t been ...
You won’t be expected to adopt an accrual accounting method to satisfy the new requirement to report financial ratios on your reports to the National ...
Glimpses of the road ahead at the CFTC can be seen through the words of new Chairman Christopher Giancarlo. He’s promised to reduce regulatory burdens, ...
Comments about the CFTC’s proposed recordkeeping rule should provide a test of the new Trump Administration’s regulatory philosophy (CPO/CTA Watch, Jan. 18, 2017). The industry’s ...
President Trump is asking the Senate to remove the word “acting” from in front of the title of temporary CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo. If ...
If author Stephen King had it right when he said “brevity makes sweetness,” then the CFTC’s rules around bona fide hedging can seem as sour ...
Through a new No-Action Letter, the CFTC has delayed the March 1 effective date for its new variation margin rules until Sept. 1, so as ...