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CFTC Settlement Bans Celsius Founder Mashinsky From Trading

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has resolved its action against Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky, permanently banning him from trading in markets the...

Ex-Celsius CEO Mashinsky gets U.S. CFTC ban in final resolution with regulator

The punishments of Alexander Mashinsky, the imprisoned former chief of Celsius until its high-profile collapse, continue with a formal banishment from any ability to...

CME Group Sues CFTC Over Crypto Perpetual Futures

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group said it was taking legal action against the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over cryptocurrency perpetual futures.In...

CME Group To Sue CFTC Over Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Approval In Clash Over Dodd-Frank Classification

The CME Group said that it plans to file a lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over the agency’s approval...

CME chief executive says company plans to sue CFTC after perpetual futures approval

CME Chief Executive Terrence Duffy said the derivatives provider planned to sue the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) after it approved perpetual futures...

SEC Crypto Task Force Adviser to Join CFTC in Move toward Blockchain Forensics

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has hired a new chief data innovation officer with deep experience in blockchain forensics in what could...

CFTC Pulls New Mexico Into Prediction Markets Battle

New Mexico is the latest US state to be pulled into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s legal fight for its jurisdiction over prediction markets...

Gensler Files Brief Arguing Sports Prediction Markets Fall Outside CFTC Swap Rules

Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not swaps under...

CFTC Sues New Mexico to Block State Gaming Laws From Reaching Federally Regulated Prediction Markets

The federal derivatives regulator filed suit Thursday in federal court seeking to bar New Mexico from enforcing state gaming laws against CFTC-registered prediction-market exchanges,...

Former SEC, CFTC Chair Gary Gensler argues that prediction markets don’t overrule state regulations

"To put the argument in the plainest real-world terms: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada would never have consented to or passively accepted...

CFTC Staff Give DCMs a Path to Convert Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures Into True Perpetuals

CFTC staff issued release 9252-26 on Friday, giving designated contract markets a no-action path to convert existing perpetual-style digital commodity futures into true perpetuals,...

CFTC Proposes Prediction Market Rules Favoring Sports Contracts

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has proposed new rules for prediction markets, signaling that sports event contracts are generally not contrary to...