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CFTC signed MOU with BaFin and Bundesbank to enhance supervision of cross-border clearing organizations
January 28th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) and Deutsche Bundesbank (Bundesbank) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision ...
CFTC Grants Registration to 18 Swap Execution Facilities
January 25th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued Orders granting registration to 18 swap execution facilities (SEFs). The SEFs issued a Registration Order today previously were operating under temporary registration status. SEFs are trading facilities that operate under ...
CFTC Launches Whistleblower Program’s Website
January 22nd, 2016
New Website Improves Public Interface and Allows Users to Submit Tips and Apply for Monetary Awards The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today launched the CFTC Whistleblower Program’s new website, www.whistleblower.gov. The new website provides an improved interface that ...
KPMG withdraws audit opinions on CFTC over accounting error
January 20th, 2016
The U.S. regulator that polices the complex derivatives markets is struggling to keep its own books in order and has made a material error that its auditor found so significant that it withdrew nearly a decade of its financial ...
CFTC orders a London based financial services company to Pay a Civil Monetary Penalty
January 14th, 2016
CFTC Orders Otkritie Capital International, Ltd. to Pay a $140,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Violating a CFTC Registration Regulation The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Otkritie Capital International, Ltd. ...
SFC signs MoU with CFTC to enhance supervision of Cross-Border Regulated Entities
December 29th, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate ...
CFTC fined individual for $1.9 Million on customer funds fraud
December 14th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that the Honorable Harry D. Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order for permanent injunction against Thomas Gillons, who resides in Napa County, ...
CFTC fines individual and Forex Trading Advisors Firms
December 8th, 2015
CFTC Finds that Respondents Made False Statements to the CFTC, Committed Foreign Currency Solicitation Fraud, and Failed to Register with the CFTC The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Garen ...
CFTC Unanimously Approves Proposed Rule on Automated Trading
November 25th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) unanimously approved proposed rules that mark a comprehensive regulatory response to the evolution of automated trading on U.S. designated contract markets (DCMs). The proposed rules, known collectively as Regulation Automated Trading or Regulation ...
CFTC charges IB Capital FX and agents for Forex Trading case
November 17th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement Complaint charging Defendants IB Capital FX, LLC (a/k/a IB Capital FX LLP) d/b/a IB Capital (IB Capital), Michel Geurkink, and Emad Echadi, individually and as the agents of IB Capital, with soliciting and accepting ...
