WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered a default judgment against defendants Brian Early and Alisha ...

Michael S. Selig was sworn into office as the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on December 22, 2025. Chairman Selig most recently served as Chief Counsel of the Securities and ...

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Over about a three-year period, Cornelius Johannes Steynberg, a citizen of the Republic of South Africa, stole more than $1.7 billion in bitcoin from at least 23,000 people using a few websites, as ...

A firm handling transactions only for proprietary persons (such as the firm itself, affiliates, top officers, or directors) need not register as an FCM. A non-U.S. firm with only non-U.S. customers ...

Fraudsters are contacting potential victims on their phones to try to lure them into cryptocurrency scams with promises of guaranteed returns. Spot the fraud by remembering all trades involve a risk ...

Before futures commission merchants (FCMs) or introducing brokers (IBs) may open a commodity futures account for a retail customer, the customer must receive a written disclosure statement and send ...

The CFTC-SEC Harmonization Initiative is a collaboration between the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to focus on strengthening the regulatory framework of U.S. financial markets ...

Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to further specify types of event contracts that fall within the scope of Commodity Exchange ...

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, a company ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced record monetary relief of over $17.1 billion for fiscal year 2024. With the resolution of digital asset cases that resulted ...

As previously announced, the order finds Binance, at Zhao’s direction, actively solicited customers in the United States, including quantitative trading firms, who entered into digital asset ...