Tagged: cftc

September 3, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

The SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets and the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk have issued a statement on the joint initiative regarding spot crypto trading. The announcement is associated with the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets… Read More

September 1, 2025 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight has recently issued an advisory regarding the foreign board of trade (FBOT) registration framework for non-U.S. “entities legally organized and operating outside the United States that seek to provide persons physically located in the United States… Read More

August 29, 2025 @ 3:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is enhancing its market surveillance and fraud detection capabilities by deploying Nasdaq’s surveillance technology. As the CFTC embraces an expanding regulatory remit, it will look to Nasdaq’s Market Surveillance platform to support its mission to promote market integrity. The… Read More

August 25, 2025 @ 9:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Crypto Council for Innovation led a series of industry associations this week that supported President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brian Quintenz as chairman of the CFTC. The Council said his prompt confirmation “is essential to accomplishing the proactive agenda your Administration has established to… Read More

August 22, 2025 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman Caroline D. Pham announced recently that the CFTC will begin its next crypto sprint initiative for “implementation of the recommendations in the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets report.” Starting on August 21, 2025, Acting Chairman Pham will… Read More

August 9, 2025 @ 10:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

From the SEC’s comments on liquid staking to the CFTC spotlighting spot crypto trading on registered exchanges and Trump’s rate cut call, Web3 was busy talking about government affairs this week. And what would a week be without some AI talk? SEC comments on liquid… Read More

August 4, 2025 @ 12:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the White House revealed its report on the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets. The policy initiative was launched by President Donald Trump earlier this year as he sought to address the negligence during the Biden administration regarding digital asset innovation. Immediately, acting… Read More

June 11, 2025 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Congressman William Timmons, a Republican from South Carolina, has fired off a letter to newly appointed SEC Chair Paul Atkins, demanding documents that shed light on the agency’s inconsistent handling of Ethereum (ETH) under former Chair Gary Gensler. Sent on June 10, 2025, this move… Read More

June 11, 2025 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says a US District Court in Massachusetts has ordered a default judgment against My Big Coin, My Big Coin Pay, and affiliated individuals John Roche and Mark Gillespie to pay a $25.7 million in penalties regarding allegations of digital asset… Read More

June 4, 2025 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prediction markets have emerged as a novel asset class where investors may “bet” on the outcome of events. While somewhat similar to traditional securities markets, these platforms are not regulated by securities regulators but fall under the purview of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),… Read More

May 27, 2025 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland-based Sygnum, a digital asset bank, has announced that J. Christopher Giancarlo will be joining Sygnum as a Senior Policy Advisor. Giancarlo, the former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is well-known for his support of digital asset innovation. Giancarlo served at the CFTC… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 5:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that it has put staff on leave pending an investigation into unnamed transgressions. Last month, the  Acting CFTC Chairman, Caroline Pham, issued a statement on the CFTC Office of Inspector General (OIG) Investigation into Allegations of Telework Violations… Read More

March 30, 2025 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech, crypto and web3 industry is grappling with a whirlwind of developments, from high-profile pardons to regulatory shifts and geopolitical issues. At the center is President Donald Trump’s recent pardon of BitMEX co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed, alongside former employee Gregory… Read More

March 19, 2025 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

The never-ending saga of new tech being used for good, as well as bad, continues. While enforcement agencies chase criminals for bad actions, the crooks keep upping their game making it difficult to stop the perpetrators. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has posted… Read More

February 11, 2025 @ 3:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says it will hold a digital assets forum which will engage with some top digital asset firms. The CFTC in a release said that Ripple, Crypto.com, MoonPay, Coinbase and Circle have all committed to participate in the event. Final… Read More

February 7, 2025 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Acting Commodities Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Caroline Pham has issued a statement defending herself against claims made in a Bloomberg article. Pham was appointed Acting Chair as the Trump Administration took over the federal bureaucracy. In the minority during the Biden Administration, now… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Acting CFTC Chairman Caroline D. Pham says there will be no more “regulation by enforcement.” This term has been widely utilized to describe regulatory activity in financial services during the Biden Administration. More specifically, the rise of digital assets created policy hysteria with the government…. Read More

January 17, 2025 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reported “record-breaking” enforcement actions in 2024, while the value of fines issued by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) more than tripled year-on-year, according to SteelEye’s annual fine tracker. To create its annual… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 8:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced a default judgment regarding the case of Mosaic Exchange Ltd. and its owner and Chief Executive Officer Sean Michael, of Miami, Florida. The CFTC initiated the enforcement action alleging a fraudulent digital asset commodity scheme. The order is based on a… Read More

December 9, 2024 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Divisions of Clearing and Risk, Data, Market Oversight, and Market Participants has recently issued a staff advisory on the use of artificial intelligence in CFTC-regulated markets by “registered entities and registrants.” The advisory reminds CFTC-regulated entities of their obligations under… Read More