Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

This is a final rule, inspired by Dodd-Frank and produced jointly by the CFTC and the SEC to further define “Swap,”“Security-Based Swap,” and “Security-Based Swap ...

This is a CFTC proposal from 2012 that would give an exemption from clearing swaps for cooperatives.

Last week the SEC and the CFTC moved a big step forward in honoring their Dodd-Frank obligation to regulate derivatives by defining key terms like ...

Along with sunscreen and vacations, your summer may well include determining whether your firm is bound for registration as a commodity pool operator (CPO) or ...

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 ...