The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday began staff firings that are expected to affect over two dozen ...

A federal judge in Camden, New Jersey, on Monday awarded more than $3.1 million in attorney fees to a U.S.-Canadian trading ...

The CFTC was established by the Commodity Futures Trading Act of 1974, and it began regulating the derivatives industry in 1975. Since its inception, its authority to regulate trading has been ...

Considering the complexity of the matter, the issues involved in the motion, and the challenges faced by defendants in ...

Precious metals speculators continued to increase their net long position in the Gold futures, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the ...

Commodity Futures Trading Commission—2019 in Review CFTC 2019 Enforcement and Regulatory Developments and a Look Forward FEBRUARY 3, 2020 By Paul M. Architzel, Elizabeth L. Mitchell, Anjan Sahni ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently entered into a consent order for permanent injunction against defendants Ryan Masten and BareIt Media LLC (d/b/a SignalPush) relating to a ...

With most of its rules implementing the swap regulatory provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) in place, the Commodity Futures Trading ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) has granted no-action relief from certain reporting obligations to commodity pool operators ...

On August 23, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an interpretation of the phrase “actual delivery” as it relates to the CFTC’s jurisdiction over retail ...

On November 15, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight (DMO) issued guidance (Guidance) to swap execution facilities (SEFs) and SEF applicants concerning several ...

On March 28, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight issued an interpretive statement regarding the auditor independence standards ...