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Commodity Futures Trading Commission USA

  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    US election bets surge after court lifts ban

    Traders on prediction markets narrowly favour a Trump victory over Harris next month

    A montage of a woman behind a voting booth and a casino chip and dice in the background
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Carbon trading
    US adopts first guidelines to shore up carbon credit markets

    Derivatives regulator sets basic standards amid concerns about greenwashing and ineffective offsets

    Rostin Benham
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Currencies
    The yenmageddon short squeeze

    Barf bags ready

  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    Derivatives
    Future looks bright for prediction markets as trader interest grows

    Involvement by Interactive Brokers and Susquehanna boosts finance-related event contracts 

    A trader works, as a screen broadcasts a news conference by US Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell following the central bank’s rate announcement
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Trafigura
    Trafigura pays $55mn US fine in case alleging market abuse

    Commodities trading house was accused of manipulating a fuel oil benchmark and possessing ‘improperly obtained’ inside information

    Trafigura  logo
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Gambling industry
    Gaming over?

    The CFTC’s veerrrry broad definition

  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Commodities
    Dairy me, now the CFTC wants a piece of the $191mn Cowzi scheme

    Heifty stuff, even in a bull market

  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Binance’s $4.3bn fine was set high as a warning, says US regulator

    CFTC commissioner says crypto groups should ‘take the hint’ after penalty designed to bring ‘order and structure’

    Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao
  • Monday, 4 December, 2023
    Carbon trading
    US regulator floats guidelines for unruly emissions offset market

    CFTC proposes standards for voluntary carbon credit derivatives

    A coal-fired power plant in Wyoming
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    FT Magazine
    Prediction markets can tell the future. Why is the US so afraid of them?

    Inside the fight over political betting, which remains a taboo in the US

  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Derivatives
    Investors blocked from betting on US congressional elections by regulator

    CFTC says political-control contracts offered by futures market would be ‘contrary to the public interest’

    The dome of the US Capitol in Washington
  • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
    US financial regulation
    Wall Street groups fined $555mn by regulators over messaging violations

    Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas among those penalised by SEC and CFTC for record-keeping ‘failures’

    The seal of the US Securities and Exchange Commission outside its headquarters in Washington
  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    US regulator plays for high stakes with Binance lawsuit

    CFTC chair sets out probably his ‘most significant case’ yet brought against crypto markets

    Rostin Behnam
  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Binance
    Crypto exchange Binance accused by CFTC of illegally serving US clients

    Chief executive Changpeng Zhao also named in regulator’s complaint that seeks fines and an injunction

    Changpeng Zhao
  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    Gillian Tett
    The financial system is alarmingly vulnerable to cyber attack

    Regulators need to scrutinise tech vendors and other digital companies far more closely

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a padlock representing a bank, with computer cursors that act as keys hovering around it
  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    Markets InsightDennis Kelleher
    Where regulators could reform Wall Street in 2023

    Apart from the CFTC, regulatory agencies have a strong agenda to improve the protection of investors and markets

    FT montage including photo of Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Bankman-Fried’s top FTX associates plead guilty to US charges

    Federal prosecutor says Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang are co-operating as crypto entrepreneur is extradited to US

    Sam Bankman-Fried leaving court in Nassau, Bahamas
  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    The FTX files: US authorities outline sprawling case against crypto exchange

    The criminal and civil charges as three markets regulators bear down on the golden boy of the industry

    Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    US financial regulation
    We need to talk about the CFTC

    Pwned by Sam Bankman-Fried

  • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
    EU business regulation
    Two Q&As on how to regulate crypto

    Goldman Sachs quizzes former regulators Clayton and Massad on how best to clean up the mess

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    US midterm elections
    ‘Gambling on democracy’: US regulators weigh election futures market

    Proposal before CFTC is part of new wave of products targeting everyday investors

    A poll worker handles ballots for the US midterm election
  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    Climate change
    US senators push for regulator crackdown on carbon offsets market

    Letter warns that rather than delivering environmental benefits, the promised emissions claims may be ‘fraudulent’

  • Monday, 3 October, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Biden administration urges Congress to speed up crypto rules

    Top US financial regulators call for new laws to cover digital assets such as bitcoin

    The US Treasury building in Washington, DC
  • Saturday, 1 October, 2022
    On Wall StreetGary Silverman
    US settlements bare the ‘off-channel’ world of bankers

    Use of WhatsApp and other messaging channels has become widespread during the pandemic

    Whatsapp logo and binary cyber codes
  • Friday, 2 September, 2022
    News in-depthUS banks
    Wall Street’s $1bn messaging ‘nightmare’

    SEC investigation sparks questions about how banks monitor communications in an era of disappearing messages

    Wall Street, SEC and WhatsApp logos
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