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Cryptocurrency is hot commodity as Bitcoin reaches record-high value
November 20th, 2017
Cryptocurrency is a digital currency with no physical form or intrinsic value, but is an increasingly hot commodity as Bitcoin, its most well-known iteration, flirts with a record high. Bitcoin, the self-proclaimed original decentralized digital currency, is hovering around ...
Commodity prices likely to rise further in 2018: World Bank
November 1st, 2017
Oil prices are forecast to rise to $56 a barrel in 2018 from $53 this year as a result of steadily growing demand, agreed production cuts among oil exporters and stabilizing U.S. shale oil production, while the surge in ...
Alleged Commodity Pool Fraud Took in More than $3.1 Million from at Least 72 Pool Participants
October 12th, 2017
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of a Complaint on October 2, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The CFTC Complaint, filed under seal, charges Defendants Scott Allensworth (d/b/a Capital ...
Russia’s Central Bank Plans to Tax Bitcoin, Deem it a ‘Digital Commodity’
May 31st, 2017
The Central Bank of Russia could soon recognize digital currencies like bitcoin as digital commodities and tax them accordingly. According to the central bank’s deputy chairwoman, Olga Skorobogatova, the central bank is in the process of drafting legislation to ...
CFTC charges individual with fraudulently soliciting commodity futures customers
May 3rd, 2017
CFTC Charges Pennsylvania Resident William H. Powderly IV with Fraudulently Soliciting Commodity Futures Customers and Distributing False Account Statements The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, ...
CFTC charges purported hedge fund that traded commodity futures and forex contracts
April 21st, 2017
CFTC Charges Purported Hedge Fund Capitol Equity FX LLC and California Residents Robert Leland Johnson IV and Marisa Elena Johnson with Fraud, Misappropriation, and Registration Violations The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a ...
NFA barred commodity trading advisor Samico Worldwide Markets
March 8th, 2017
National Futures Association (NFA) has permanently barred Redding, Calif. commodity trading advisor Samico Worldwide Markets, Inc. (Samico) and its principal and sole associated person, Thomas Gasparini, from membership and from acting as a principal of an NFA Member. The ...
Individual and his company charged in a commodity futures and Forex Ponzi-Style Scheme
December 21st, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil anti-fraud enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, charging Defendants Derek Springfield and his company, Draven, LLC (Draven), both of Mesa, Arizona, with engaging ...
UK located commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor ordered to pay a $60,000 fine
November 7th, 2016
NFA orders London, England, commodity pool operator and commodity trading advisor The Cambridge Strategy Asset Management Limited to pay $60,000 fine National Futures Association (NFA) has ordered The Cambridge Strategy Asset Management Limited(Cambridge), an NFA Member commodity pool operator (CPO) ...
CFTC Releases Rule Enforcement Review of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. and the Commodity Exchange, Inc.
October 14th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) announced today that it has issued the results of a rule enforcement review of the New York Mercantile Exchange and the Commodity Exchange (NYMEX and COMEX or ...
