Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), Dodd-Frank, Jurisdiction

The Delta Report - Derivatives Newsletter - March 2019: CFTC Chairman Authors White Paper on Cross-Border Swaps Regulation Version...

White & Case LLP on 4/3/2019

On October 1, 2018, Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") published a white paper entitled "Cross-Border Swaps Regulation Version 2.0: A Risk-Based Approach with Deference to...more

Commodity Exchange Act: Key Decisions from 2018 and Enforcement Trends to Monitor in 2019

Jones Day on 2/5/2019

2018 was an interesting year for market participants subject to the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA"), with federal appellate courts issuing three noteworthy decisions involving claims under the CEA. The Commodity Futures...more

Skadden's 2019 Insights: Significant Regulatory, Jurisdictional and Enforcement Challenges Ahead for CFTC

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/22/2019

In 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) began operating with a full complement of five commissioners for the first time since 2014. Soon thereafter, it held a rare open meeting to propose major...more

Court Rules Cryptocurrencies Can Be Regulated By The CFTC As Commodities

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/27/2018

The regulatory landscape surrounding cryptocurrency continues to evolve. Most of the activity to date has involved regulatory enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Commodity Futures...more

CFTC Proposes to Allow Private Lawsuits for Transactions in RTOs and ISOs

Morgan Lewis on 5/26/2016

The proposal could create uncertainty for market participants and raise jurisdictional questions about which regulator should police power markets....more

Regulators Issue Final Dodd-Frank Standards for Assessing Diversity Policies and Practices of Covered Entities in the Financial...

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/24/2015

On June 9, 2015, six federal agencies (“Agencies”) subject to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Act”) issued much-anticipated joint final standards (“Final Standards”) in accordance with...more

FERC And CFTC Reach Agreement On Information Sharing And Jurisdiction

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 1/7/2014

After a fair amount of back-channel arm-twisting, the two agencies with principal (and sometimes overlapping) jurisdiction over energy commodities have reached agreement on two memoranda of understanding (“MOUs”) required by...more

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