Search Results for: National Futures Association
CFTC Approves National Futures Association Rules Enhancing Protections for Retail Forex Customers
August 28th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) today approved rule amendments and a new interpretive notice filed by the National Futures Association (NFA). NFA is a registered futures association under section 17 of the Commodity Exchange Act (Act), and ...
National Futures Association fines
January 13th, 2015
NFA orders Orlando, Fla. firm Diamond Head Capital LLC to permanently withdraw from NFA membership and fines eFloorTrade LLC, John A. Moore and Christopher T. Moore. National Futures Association (NFA) has ordered Diamond Head Capital LLC, an NFA Member ...
CFTC opens access to Indian Futures market for U.S. customers
May 18th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an order to the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) as part of its longstanding program of regulatory deference to foreign regulatory frameworks. Through its Part 30 exemptive program the CFTC provides ...
Companies and individual to pay $3.5 Million in commodity futures and Forex fraud
May 2nd, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on April 11, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado entered Default Judgment against Defendants Randall A. Vest and his holding company, Bulletproof Vest, Inc.(Bulletproof Vest). The judgment resolves a CFTC enforcement action ...
International fraudulent scheme controller fined for more than $2 million
October 11th, 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Final Judgment and Order against Grace Elizabeth Reisinger of Grand Island, Nebraska and ...
ASX signs MOU with China Futures Association
April 27th, 2015
ASX has today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the China Futures Association (CFA) at a CFA conference in Hangzhou, China. The China Futures Association is a China-wide industry self-regulatory organisation focused on the development of the futures ...
CFTC Issues an Exemption to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (HKSFC)
March 23rd, 2015
CFTC Issues an Exemption to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission Permitting U.S. Customers to Deal Directly with Hong Kong Brokers The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) today issued an order to Hong Kong Securities ...
Introducing brokers to pay civil monetary penalty
September 28th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued orders filing and settling charges against three registered introducing brokers (IB)—EOX Holdings LLC of Houston, Texas; Futures International LLC of Chicago, Illinois; and OTC Europe LLP of London, United Kingdom—for failure to meet minimum ...
Swap dealer ordered to pay a $900,000 fine
November 6th, 2018
National Futures Association (NFA), a self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry, has issued a press release to inform that has decided to order New York, NY swap dealer Mizuho Capital Markets LLC (Mizuho Capital) to pay a $900,000 ...
Beware of fraudulent initial coin offering
October 12th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has obtained an emergency court order halting a planned initial coin offering (ICO), which backers falsely claimed was approved by the SEC. The order also halts ongoing pre-ICO sales by ...
