Tagged: cftc

October 13, 2026 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill has argued that recent efforts by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to craft digital-asset rules fall short of the lasting framework only Congress can deliver. After the Senate blocked the CLARITY… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) emerging rules for leveraged retail cryptocurrency trading face a realistic risk of stalling or unraveling before the 2028 US presidential election, according to analysis from TD Cowen. In a note dated October 12, 2026, Jaret Seiberg, managing director at… Read More

October 10, 2026 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain.com, a long-established digital asset platform, has moved to secure regulatory clearance that would allow it to expand into US prediction markets and cryptocurrency derivatives trading. The company informed CNBC that it has submitted applications for two licenses from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 4:00 pm By Press Release  |  

CFTC Seeks Public Comment on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Concerning the Inclusion of Certain Event Contracts in the Definition of Swap | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9310-26 Skip to main content October 09, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes providing additional market

October 9, 2026 @ 3:30 pm By Press Release  |  

CFTC Issues Interim Final Rule Excluding Certain Activity from the Definition of Swap | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9309-26 Skip to main content October 09, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today published an Interim Final Rule that codifies the CFTC’s longstanding position that casino-style gambling products, including wagers placed on

October 6, 2026 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued proposed rules aiming to support digital asset innovation while protecting investors. Crypto proponents view the digital asset sector as key to the US maintaining its global leadership in financial services. Multiple jurisdictions worldwide have begun or already… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 1:00 pm By Press Release  |  

CFTC Issues No-Action Letter for DCMs Regarding Converting Existing Perpetual-Style Broad-Based Security Index Futures into True Perpetual Futures | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9308-26 Skip to main content October 05, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight today announced it has issued no-action relief to designated contract markets

October 5, 2026 @ 11:40 am By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to provide notice of, and seek public comment regarding, its intent to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework comprised of fit-for-purpose rules concerning section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act and retail commodity transactions described thereunder

October 1, 2026 @ 9:06 am By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division and Division of Market Oversight announced today they are extending temporary no-action positions in connection with the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, known as Brexit. [See CFTC Staff Letter No. 26-28]On February 25, 2019, the CFTC

September 29, 2026 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has recently secured registration from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization, a step that closes a long-running gap in the company’s regulated US derivatives business. The CFTC recorded the status as registered… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Cash FX Group S.A. and several associated individuals, alleging they ran a vast multilevel marketing operation that collected more than $950 million under the pretense of pooled retail foreign-exchange trading. The civil complaint, filed in the… Read More

September 27, 2026 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OG.com Markets has asked US commodity regulators to let it list a new class of equity derivatives that never mature: cash-settled perpetual futures on individual American stocks. The request, submitted last week to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), would allow the platform to offer… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:46 am By Press Release  |  

CFTC Staff Releases Updates to FAQs Concerning Registrants and Registered Entity Activities Relating to Crypto Assets and Blockchain Technologies | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9303-26 Skip to main content September 24, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division, Division of Market Oversight, and Division of Clearing and Risk today

September 23, 2026 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US derivatives regulators have drawn a sharper line around a fast-growing corner of prediction markets: contracts that pay out based on what a named person says, where that person appears, or whom that person meets. On September 22, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC)… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 4:38 pm By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight today issued an advisory that addresses the listing and trading of event contracts that are based on whether an individual will say or “mention” certain words, attend or appear at an event, or otherwise interact with another person, which

September 21, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prediction market operator Polymarket came under fresh scrutiny after a reported wave of stolen-card activity on its US platform coincided with leadership pressure to keep expanding, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. In February 2026, shortly after the regulated U.S. venue began… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction-market platform, is facing public accusations that its crypto perpetual-futures activity is inflated. The claims originated with Beni, a former quant and co-founder of Stealth Neolab, who published a detailed thread on X after a heated exchange with Kalshi’s crypto product lead…. Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 9:00 am By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Task Force today announced it will host the Frontier Forum Series, a series of public roundtables on the technologies that are transforming American financial markets. Each Frontier Forum will provide a venue for public dialogue on the financial technologies and evolving market structures

September 20, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KalshiEX has asked US regulators for permission to list perpetual futures tied to individual American stocks, placing the prediction-markets firm in the same race as Coinbase to bring a crypto-style derivative into traditional equities. On September 18, 2026, KalshiEX filed a proposed rule change with… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 9:08 am By Press Release  |  

CFTC Staff Issues No-Action Position to Providers of Passive Software | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9300-26 Skip to main content September 17, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division today announced it has issued a no-action position for the benefit of providers of passive software. The position is similar