DMO believes it is appropriate to extend conditional no-action relief to Yieldbroker with regard to Section 5h(a)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act and Commission Regulation.
The Respondents solicited retail customers, generally by telephone, to buy and sell physical precious metals, such as gold and silver, in off-exchange, leveraged transactions and ...
Last fall the commission issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that laid out three different cross-border approaches it could take. The comment file appears ...
CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad updates the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry on...
To address the regulatory gaps and build-up of excessive risk that caused the 2008 global financial crisis, and the role of over-the-counter (OTC) swaps, leaders ...
The position limits rulemaking is a significant undertaking and both the CFTC and its staff are struggling to get it right. I continue to keep ...
In certain situations, commercial parties are unable to predict at the time a contract is entered into the exact quantities of the commodity that they ...
Treating some portion of these physical contracts as swaps simply because they may contain some characteristics of commodity options can lead to significant costs and ...
I have also encouraged European officials to consider focusing their standards on those benchmarks that are most widely used, so that smaller contracts are not ...
As described in the Order, cotton merchants and dealers that hold or control at least 100 cotton futures positions, the reportable level for cotton futures ...
You state that certain U.S.-based management employees of “B’s” U.S. investment advisers, and sometimes their immediate family, have contributed seed money to the
subfunds managed by ...