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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced Judge David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas entered a consent order against Mirror ...

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 ...

Use the Commission's internet comment form (https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-2026-09/application-federal-securities-laws-certain-types-crypto-assets-certain ...

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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 ...