Tag: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
U.S. CFTC Proposes Ban on Political Event Contracts
Prediction platforms including PredictIt, Polymarket, Zeitgeist and Kalshi give users opportunities to buy contracts on the outcomes of actual events, [...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren Demands U.S. CFTC Chair Explain His Chats With FTX’s SBF
The head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Rostin Behnam, had a lot of contact with Sam Bankman-Friend, the disgraced former CE [...]
U.S. SEC Asking for More Millions, Dozens of Lawyers to Beef Up Crypto Oversight
Executive branch budget proposals are gathered into a single push from the White House for its spending priorities, with more detail about how exactly [...]
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 [...]
CFTC Chief: Nothing Changed After FTX Meltdown to Empower Agency to Prevent Repeat
U.S. regulators don't have any more authority now to head off another major crypto collapse than they did when FTX imploded and took much of the indus [...]
Crypto’s Bromance With U.S. CFTC May Be One-Sided, Enforcement Record Shows
In recent years, Behnam's agency has routinely been held up in crypto circles as the preferred U.S. regulator. Industry insiders have suggested its ha [...]
Ex-FTX Unit LedgerX in Gray Area Beyond U.S. CFTC Proposal on Customer Funds: Commissioner
Friday's proposal, which details how regulated firms must only put customer assets into an expanded list of the most liquid of investments, doesn't co [...]
Prediction Market Kalshi Sues U.S. CFTC for Denying Its Contracts for Congressional Elections
When the CFTC denied the application earlier this year, Commissioner Summer Mersinger dissented, arguing, "It is important for the commission to make [...]
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