Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

This is a small correction to the SEC's and CFTC's joint definitions of “swap dealer,”“security-based swap dealer,”“major swap participant,”“major security-based swap participant” and “eligible contract ...

The prospect of living under two regulators may be as welcoming as a police officer's flashing lights in your rear view mirror. But know that ...

This is a joint SEC-CFTC rule, promulgated in 2012 from Dodd-Frank reforms, that sets out definitions for key terms. These include swap dealer, security-based swap ...

Press reports have indicated how farmers, ranchers and regular investors who hedged using commodities got burned by the failure of MF Global. Scattered among the ...

Taking a page from recent legal successes against the SEC, the Investment Company Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the CFTC last week ...

One of the reasons CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton penned his 65-page book, Ponzimonium: How scam artists are ripping off America, was because he couldn't believe ...

The Commission adopted new data collections for CPOs and CTAs that are consistent with a data collection required under the Dodd- Frank for entities registered ...

Talk of this move has bubbled for years and now the SEC - along with the CFTC - are proposing the authority to essentially enforce ...

Turns out the process to register as a commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor with the CFTC differs greatly from the SEC's process. For ...

These rules prescribe external business conduct standards for swap dealers and major swap participants.