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8 Mar 2016, 1:16 pm by Thomas Hopson
Disputing the view that prosecutors act as de facto regulators, he indicated that “what I am looking for, and I think what most federal prosecutors look for, is a clear violation of a rule or regulation that’s set by the SEC [Securities and Exchange Commission] or the CFTC [Commodity Futures Trading Commission]. [read post]
29 Feb 2016, 9:56 am by Scott Riddle
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), which recently issued an order finding that bitcoin are a commodity covered by the Commodity Exchange Act. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 8:42 am by John Jascob
Wilson and his company JBW Capital solicited over $2 million from 25 family members and acquaintances and used the funds to trade commodity futures. [read post]
14 Dec 2015, 5:36 am
Code § 1348 to apply to commodities futures trading. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 8:58 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), in a decision involving Coinflip, Inc. d/b/a Derivabit (Coinflip) and its chief executive officer Francisco Riordan, ruled that “[B]itcoin and other virtual currencies are properly defined as commodities. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 5:00 am by John Jascob
MF Global, Inc. was a futures commission merchant (FCM) that accepted deposits from customers to trade commodity futures. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 6:00 am by David Kris
Today, for reasons both technological and political, there is an increasing divergence and growing conflict between U.S. and foreign laws that compel, and prohibit, production of data in response to governmental surveillance directives.[1][2]  Major U.S. telecommunications and Internet providers[3] face escalating pressure from foreign governments, asserting foreign law, to require production of data stored by the providers in the United States, in ways that violate U.S. law.[4]  At the… [read post]
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is engaged in its first court battle interpreting its new anti-manipulation authority under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) as amended by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (Dodd-Frank):  CFTC v. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 5:53 am by John Jascob
These transactions were cleared as EFP or “exchange for physical” transactions, in which futures are exchanged for the physical commodity. [read post]
27 Nov 2014, 12:00 am by My name
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced he intended to introduce regulations to the Bitcoin marketplace. [read post]
21 Jul 2014, 4:30 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  Some sites claimed that ABI was a defendant in a fraud suit, was found guilty, and was sued by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 10:40 am by nedaj
The letter clarifies the conditions under which a CPO otherwise required to register (“Delegating CPO”) may delegate its CPO functions to another CPO (“Designated CPO”) and be relieved from a registration requirement under Section 4m(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act (the “CEA”). [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 12:46 am by Arina Shulga
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the "CFTC") is an independent federal agency that regulates derivative products tied to interest rates and commodities, such as swaps, options and futures. [read post]