Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

The CTC’s latest proposal, adopted by an unanimous vote, is touted to “reduce unnecessary burdens on registrants and market participants by simplifying some overly detailed” ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“Commission” or “CFTC”) is proposing to amend selected provisions of its regulations in order to simplify certain requirements for swap ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) is proposing to amend its position limits rules for security futures products (“SFPs”) by: (i) increasing the ...

About one year after the SEC released an investor alert about initial coin offerings, the CFTC has followed suit with its own alert (IA Watch, ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) is proposing to amend its regulations governing the minimum standards for a self-regulatory organization’s (‘‘SRO’’) financial surveillance ...

On November 2, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission revised its rules. That document inadvertently failed to remove several obsolete provisions in the regulation. This ...

Dodd-Frank gave the SEC supervision over security-based swaps and the CFTC over other swaps. Now the two agencies have agreed to work together to coordinate ...

As large as the CFTC’s fine of $65 million against J.P. Morgan for years of staff manipulating the ISDA dollar rate to benefit the bank’s ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or ‘‘CFTC’’) is proposing to amend the de minimis exception within the ‘‘swap dealer’’ definition in the Commission’s regulations by: ...

The CFTC is amending the Commission’s regulations relating to access to swap data held by swap data repositories (‘‘SDRs’’). The amendments implement pertinent provisions of ...