The Situation: Judge Richard Sullivan of the Southern District of New York ("SDNY") recently issued a post-trial decision in a market manipulation action brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") in 2013. ...more
On November 25, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) settled with Daniel Shak and SHK Management LLC (collectively Respondents) for violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). ...more
On November 6, 2013, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed suit against Donald R. Wilson and his company, DRW Investments, for “banging the close” and “spoofing” the IDEX USD Three-Month Interest Rate Swap Futures...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided today that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has exclusive jurisdiction over all transactions involving commodity futures contracts and that the Federal...more
The outcome of the Brian Hunter v. FERC case, which was argued today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, will help determine the scope of FERC's authority over the gas markets and the scope of FERC's...more