On April 9, 2025, the Markets Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight (collectively, the “Divisions”) of the Commodity ...

Y esterday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sent around an internal email providing guidance on how agency employees ...

On April 4, 2025, the CFTC's Division of Market Participants issued No-Action Letter 25-09 regarding the controversial Pre-Trade Mid-Market ...

They believe the CFTC’s lighter touch can provide the clarity the crypto industry has been begging for. According to sources, the Trump administration’s goal is to cut unnecessary regulations ...

Like the SEC, the CFTC has the power to establish market rules and bring enforcement cases, but it’s often perceived as having a lighter regulatory touch than the SEC because the derivative ...

Experts and stakeholders in the cryptocurrency industry discussed how the SEC can best regulate digital assets, especially ...

The CFTC has been in charge of commodity derivatives ... The SEC chair is a hardliner who made regulation decisions that were not comfortable for the industry. Despite its soft approach, the ...

On March 13, 2025, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued Letter 25-05, withdrawing controversial and much-criticized Staff Letter 21-19 (“SEF Registration Advisory ...

The CFTC’s jurisdiction could expand dramatically ... but the regulatory landscape for them is in limbo due to pending court cases and rule-making efforts. Behnam, who has said he didn ...