Tagged: cftc

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

September 13, 2026 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal regulators have quietly authorized multiple inquiries into unusual activity on a major prediction-markets platform, according to internal records released through a public-records request. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signed off on at least three previously undisclosed probes into Polymarket event contracts tied to… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi has begun offering perpetual futures tied to gold and silver after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) cleared the listings, marking the prediction-market operator’s first move of this product type beyond digital assets. Trading in the new contracts opened Thursday on the company’s platform,… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 2:08 pm By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today approved a final rule that incorporates a 30 percent presumption for whistleblower awards of $5 million or less, subject to Commission discretion and its analysis of relevant regulatory factors.The final rule is modeled on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule 21F-6(c), further

September 11, 2026 @ 10:20 am By Press Release  |  

Joint Readout of Principals’ Meeting of UK and U.S. Authorities Regarding Central Counterparty Resolution | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9296-26 Skip to main content September 11, 2026 WASHINGTON — Senior officials from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve Board, and Bank of England convened

September 10, 2026 @ 4:36 pm By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — Chairman Michael S. Selig and the Risk Management Center at Kansas State University today released the agenda for the Agricultural Commodity Futures Conference (AgCon) on October 22-23, 2026, in Overland Park, Kansas. Attendees will discuss topics related to market structure, changes in emerging markets, contract convergence, financing, data, access

September 4, 2026 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New Jersey has now formally asked the nation’s highest court to settle a growing dispute over who has the power to oversee sports wagering that takes place on prediction-market platforms. On September 2, 2026, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a petition for a writ of… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has asked a federal judge to throw out CME Group’s challenge to the agency’s approval of cryptocurrency perpetual futures, arguing that the world’s largest derivatives exchange has not shown a legally cognizable injury. In a motion filed September… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid Labs is said to now be pursuing a regulated path into the United States by negotiating with Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, according to a Bloomberg report published on August 31, 2026. The discussions center on perpetual futures, the derivative contracts… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 1:27 pm By Press Release  |  

CFTC Staff Issues No-Action Position on Large Trader Reporting for Direct Participants | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9293-26 Skip to main content September 02, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight today announced it has issued a no-action letter to Electron Exchange DCM LLC, a designated contract market,

September 2, 2026 @ 12:04 pm By Press Release  |  

CFTC Issues Final Rule to Modify Clearing Requirement for Canadian Dollar- and Mexican Peso-Denominated Interest Rate Swaps | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9292-26 Skip to main content September 02, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a final rule to modify its interest rate swap clearing requirement. The final rule

August 31, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Press Release  |  

CFTC Further Extends Compliance Date for Amendments to Form PF | CFTC /PressRoom/PressReleases/9290-26 Skip to main content August 31, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today published a Joint Final Rule with the Securities and Exchange Commission further extending the compliance date for the amendments to Form PF that were

August 30, 2026 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A federal appeals panel has given Nevada a significant win in its clash with prediction market operator Kalshi, holding that sports-event contracts listed on the company’s exchange are not “swaps” under federal commodities law and therefore are not shielded from state gaming rules. On August… Read More

August 27, 2026 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Connecticut officials have taken prediction-market operator Kalshi to state court, asking a judge to halt what they describe as unlicensed sports betting offered through the company’s event contracts. Attorney General William Tong, Consumer Protection Commissioner Bryan T. Cafferelli, and Governor Ned Lamont announced the action… Read More