Tag: Behnam
U.S. CFTC’s Behnam Says Agency Writing New Policy on Prediction Markets
"We must continually be fair and consistent in evaluating the products and proposals presented for our consideration," Behnam said."The commission mus [...]
'Congress Needs to Act' on Crypto Regulations, CFTC Chair Behnam Tells Lawmakers
The CFTC Chair was testifying on the regulator's 2025 budget request.
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One-third of all CFTC crypto enforcement actions took place this year: Chair Behnam
United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chair Rostin Behnam highlighted his agency’s activity in the crypto sphere and the need for [...]
Top Senate Democrat Brown Tells Gensler, Yellen, Behnam to Use Powers to Address Crypto
“Ultimately, inadequate disclosures persist because opacity serves sponsors, executives, and other crypto industry insiders,” Brown argued. “It is far [...]
U.S. CFTC Chief Behnam Reinforces View of Ether as Commodity
In the high-stakes CFTC action against Binance, his agency claimed that several tokens – bitcoin, ether, litecoin and the stablecoins tether and BUSD [...]
Binance Case is Clear Evasion of Law Says CFTC Chair Behnam
Court documents filed on Monday contained internal chats from Binance, including one from Samuel Lim, the exchange’s chief compliance officer through [...]
Rostin Behnam points to CFTC-regulated LedgerX as success story amid FTX collapse
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, chair Rostin Behnam has cited LedgerX, the crypto derivatives and clearing platform based in the United [...]
US CFTC’s Behnam Will Testify at FTX Hearing in Senate
The Agriculture Committee announced the hearing the same day it published a defense of the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act, a bill support [...]
Health of FTX’s US Derivatives Arm Owed to Oversight, Says CFTC Chief Behnam
As for the CFTC’s enforcement powers, when Behnam was asked whether the agency would take action against FTX, he said he couldn’t comment on specific [...]
CFTC Chair Behnam Says ‘Number One Accomplishment’ Is Track Record of Enforcement Actions
Speaking at a panel discussion hosted by law firm Lowenstein Sandler in New York on Monday, Behnam said he gets “very irritated when folks start to ta [...]
CFTC’s Behnam Calls FTX Idea a Potential ‘Evolution’ in Market Structure
The application process seems to be “going well,” so far, said Zach Dexter, the CEO of FTX US Derivatives, at a separate event on Friday – the Securit [...]
Ooki DAO Case So ‘Egregious,’ CFTC Had No Choice, Chair Behnam Says
Behnam has been pursuing a much longer reach for his agency in crypto, asking that Congress give it power to oversee the spot market for digital commo [...]
Bitcoin Could ‘Double in Price’ Under CFTC Regulation, Chairman Behnam Says
“Non-bank [crypto] institutions thrive on regulation, they thrive on regulatory certainty, they thrive on a level playing field,” Behnam added. “And t [...]
Merge is ‘a step in the right direction’ to address crypto’s energy usage — Rostin Behnam
Rostin Behnam, chair of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, said the Ethereum blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake m [...]
CFTC Chief Behnam Sees a Crypto Movement Brewing in Washington
“It’s just a positive momentum, I think, for the technology, for the industry, for the economy,” Behnam said at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022 in Austin, T [...]
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