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Opinion: Cadwalader partners Peter Malyshev, Mercedes Tunstall, and Daniel Meade explain what the explosion in popularity of ...
AGA CEO Bill Miller says prediction markets act like gambling and should be regulated by states, not the CFTC.
Lawmakers with the US Senate Banking Committee will discuss digital asset markets days before the House of Representatives is ...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is proposing to expand agricultural futures trading hours to a 24/7 schedule. CFTC says the change would make the market more vibrant, ...
Coinbase plans to launch perpetual futures trading in the United States, with the offering set to comply with regulatory ...
(CFTC, Testimony of CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry (Dec. 10, 2014) available here, opens new tab).
The CFTC has long rejected proposals to launch political-betting contracts. Instead, the agency has only allowed a few select academic ventures that operate within certain parameters to do so.
Outgoing US Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero says the exodus of the agency’s top brass is “not a great situation” for crypto regulations.
Two Republican senators unveiled a proposal that would change how most cryptocurrencies are regulated — and more importantly, ...
This is why one of the most critical responsibilities of the CFTC is supervising CCPs on a daily basis. American CCPs are undoubtedly the strongest and most resilient in the world, and they need ...
CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger resigned from her position on Wednesday. Blockchain Association announced the same day that Mersinger would become the organization’s new CEO. Mersinger’s ...