Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

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.

Last week the Commodity Futures Trading Commission unveiled a final rule and a proposed rule, that could force certain advisers to register as commodity pool ...

This is a proposed rule from the CFTC released in February 2012 to attempt to harmonize its rules with the SEC so as to make ...

This are final rules released by the CFTC in February 2012 governing data collection rules for commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisers. This amending ...