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...Last year a rancher was sentenced to 11 years in prison after he racked up more than $200mn in futures-trading losses and tried to cover his margin calls by invoicing a business partner for $233mn of “phantom...
...DEFI is currently by far the smallest of four bitcoin futures ETFs trading in the US, a structure the SEC has permitted because futures contracts are listed and traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange,...
...Interactive Brokers Corp and an affiliate agreed to the highest penalty, at $35mn, and also faced a $20mn fine from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for similar violations....
...But this week, he trained his sights on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which recently sued three platforms in crypto’s decentralised finance sector for allegedly offering products in the US illegally...
...made $7bn-$8bn from commodities last year....
...One takeaway from this: LedgerX was fully US regulated, with a licence from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, making it more viable than other parts of the former Bankman-Fried empire....
...Stablecoin-backed Circle has poached former Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Heath Tarbert as chief legal officer from Citadel Securities, succeeding Circle general counsel Flavia Naves....
...Francis Breedon, professor at Queen Mary University London and Scottish Fiscal Commission: As a member of the Scottish Fiscal Commission whose forecasts were recently published alongside the Scottish budget...
...In consequence, the plan of Brooksley Born, then chair of America’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to bring them under her regulatory wing enjoyed little hope of success against the opposition of...
...In December, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay $200mn in fines to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for failing to keep records of staff communications on...
...Sprecher will be replaced as chair by Sharon Bowen, a former commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the main US derivatives market regulator....
...When Securities and Exchange Commission chair Gary Gensler was in charge of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the administration of Barack Obama, it became known as the little regulatory agency...
...Beyond the Square Mile The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has awarded almost $200m to a former bank employee who raised concerns about the manipulation of the Libor interest rate benchmark, marking...
...It is wise to buckle up. Computer-powered hedge fund group AQR Capital Management is continuing to retrench operations after several lean years for many systematic trading strategies....
...Tarbert left the Commodity Futures Trading Commission just 27 days ago, having resigned as its chair after an 18-month tenure....
...The EU’s emissions trading system (ETS) was launched in 2005, and Brussels intends to introduce a carbon border tax in the next two years....
...He joins the firm’s Washington office after serving as director of the markets participant division of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...He cleaned up derivatives trading while at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission during the Obama years....
...That’s wise, especially given that a new rule proposed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission could lift the Dodd-Frank position limits put in place after the post-2008 oil spike....
...Futures Trading Commission but is also an independent thinker — would be one option, perhaps?...
...Singapore’s commodity-trading sector has been hit by another scandal, reports Neil Hume, after Hontop Energy’s biggest lender accused it of “suspicious transactions”....
...Wise business leaders should not shy away from difficult restructuring decisions but should ensure they are not seen to take advantage of a crisis, says the FT Editorial Board....
...The settlement with the Department of Justice and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the largest penalty ever imposed in a spoofing case, according to the CFTC....
...(FT) On a sombre note Vitol’s chairman, Ian Taylor, who is regarded as a founding father of the modern commodity trading industry, has passed away after a long illness....
...An avid conservationist and hunter, Mr Bacon has over the years snapped up several big tracts of wilderness across the US, putting some into conservation easements to protect them from any future development...
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