Tagged: brian quintenz

December 6, 2022 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Former Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Brian Quintenz has joined a16z Crypto in a full-time role as its new Head of Policy. a16z Crypto is a leading VC operation investing in blockchain-based platforms, including Web3. While at the CFTC, Quintenz led the Commission’s Technology… Read More

August 19, 2021 @ 3:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Commissioner Brian D. Quintenz, long a voice in support of responsible Fintech innovation at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has issued a statement regarding his forthcoming exit from the regulator. Quintenz’s term expired in April of 2020 but said he would not seek another… Read More

October 1, 2020 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

BitMEX, a top cryptocurrency exchange that is big in the crypto derivatives sector, is the target of an enforcement action filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the CFTC, a civil enforcement action has been filed in the U.S. District Court for… Read More

April 28, 2020 @ 12:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that Commissioner Brian Quintenz will depart the agency at the end of his term. Quintenz will have completed a 5-year stint at the Commission. Quintenz issued a statement on his decision to exit the CFTC stating that… Read More

October 6, 2019 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) held the 4th meeting of the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) this past week, sponsored by CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintez. Several of the topics included hot areas of Fintech such as the utilization of distributed ledger technology (DLT/ Blockchain) in… Read More

August 2, 2019 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that Daniel Gorfine, the agency’s first Chief Innovation Officer and Director of LabCFTC, will depart in mid-August. Gorfine also served as the Designated Federal Officer of the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee. The announcement comes following the exit… Read More

October 18, 2018 @ 12:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Developers that write predictive smart contracts could be subject to various types of enforcement action and liability, CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz told an audience in Dubai yesterday. Quintenz, whose agency regulates derivatives markets in the US, singled out both securities-preformance predictive software (“It could look… Read More

September 20, 2018 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has scheduled a meeting of its Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) to take place on October 5th at the CFTC HQ in Washington, DC. The meeting begins at 10AM and continues to approximately 3:30PM ET. According to the CFTC, the… Read More

August 28, 2018 @ 9:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA) officially launched and quickly scheduled a meeting for September. The inaugural members included several well-known names in the virtual currency sector. Bittrex, Bitstamp, bitFlyer USA and Gemini Trust Company were announced as founding members. At the same time, Maria… Read More

August 20, 2018 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Virtual Commodity Association Schedules Inaugural Meeting for September A group of industry participants have joined together to create the Virtual Commodity Association (VCA) with the goal of evolving into a self regulatory organization (SRO). The creation of the VCA was revealed earlier this year but… Read More