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CFTC Enforcement Brings Another Event Contracts Case

CFTC uses unprecedented authority to keep Kalshi operating

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has invoked unprecedented emergency authority to allow prediction market Kalshi to continue operating, directly responding to a laws...

CFTC seeks urgent ruling on Minnesota prediction market ban

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has asked a federal court to expedite its ruling against Minnesota before the state’s prediction-market ban takes effect on Aug. 1. CF...

CFTC Warns Prediction Markets: Stop Displaying Swap Prices Like Sports Betting Odds

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reminding its licensed prediction markets that they are financial exchanges, not gambling operators, and therefore should avoid d...

CFTC Chair Michael Selig Outlines ‘Roadmap for New Frontier of Finance’

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), under President Donald Trump’s second administration, claims it’s leading the “New Frontier of Finance” by embracing “responsible i...

CFTC Tells Prediction Markets: If It's a Derivative, Don't Make It Look Like a Bet

Prediction market operators and the CFTC have been defending event contracts in court and publicly as federally regulated derivatives rather than sports bets. The regulator is now...

CFTC Exercises Emergency Authority Amid New York Prediction Market Dispute

On August 11, the CFTC announced that it exercised its emergency authority under Section 8a(9) of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and ordered a federally regulated event-contract...

CFTC ends large trader reporting for commodity swaps

The CFTC has eliminated Part 20 large trader reporting requirements for physical commodity swaps, ending daily and event-based reporting obligations for clearing organizations, cle...

CFTC Reaffirms Regulatory Authority, ‘Rules of the Road’ For Prediction Markets During Innovation Meeting

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael S. Selig reaffirmed the commission’s regulatory authority over prediction markets and promised “clear rules of the road” for the...

CFTC warns prediction markets over gambling-style odds

The CFTC has warned regulated prediction markets against displaying American-style gambling odds as state authorities intensify efforts to classify sports event contracts as unlice...

CFTC reports financial futures open interest data for Aug. 4

CFTC clashes with U.S. soldier over $400K Polymarket bet

The CFTC entered a criminal Polymarket case to defend its view that event contracts are swaps covered by commodities law.

CFTC Files Amicus Brief In Polymarket Event Contract Insider Trading Case

The CFTC has filed an amicus brief in a federal criminal case involving alleged insider trading on Polymarket event contracts, putting prediction markets b...

CFTC Files Amicus Brief In Polymarket Event Contract Insider Trading Case

The CFTC has filed an amicus brief in a federal criminal case involving alleged insider trading on Polymarket event contracts, putting prediction markets b...

CFTC orders Kalshi to restore unwound Michigan prediction market trades

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has directed Kalshi to complete pending trades that the prediction market operator had previously… Continue reading CFTC orders Kals...

24/7 Trading and Clearing: Recent CFTC Developments and Key Issues for Market Participants

CFTC steps in to shield Kalshi from New York shutdown attempt

Kalshi can keep operating for now after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) invoked its emergency powers, warning that an… Continue reading CFTC steps in to shield Kals...

CFTC resolves FTX cases against Ellison and Wang

A U.S. federal court has resolved the CFTC’s cases against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang by imposing five-year trading bans and registration bans of up to 10 years. The Commodity...

CFTC proposes ending SEF order book mandate

The CFTC has proposed removing a 13-year-old order book requirement for certain swap transactions, with public comments due within 30 days of its Federal Register publication. The...

CFTC Cites Bitcoin Position in Emergency Order Shielding Kalshi

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ordered Kalshi to keep running its exchange after finding that New York’s attempt to stop the platform presented a market emergency....

CFTC backs case against US soldier accused of Polymarket insider trading

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is backing the criminal case against Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a US Army master… Continue reading CFTC backs case against US soldier accu...

Former CFTC Commissioner: Wall Street has used these financial contracts for decades. Now a goat herder does too

Because of prediction markets, for the first time ever, small businesses have access to risk management tools that Wall Street has used for years. 

CFTC seeks public input on AI compute futures contracts as CME eyes October launch

The regulatory review could shape an emerging market that lets companies and investors trade and hedge the cost of increasingly scarce AI computing power. The US Commodity Futures...

CFTC fines former White House operator $172K over prediction market bets

A former White House teleprompter operator has agreed to pay $172,539 after U.S. regulators found he used advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to make more than $107...