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Enforcement Actions National Futures Association

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

CFTC Penalizes an Inadvertent Commodity Trading Advisor

Once in a while, a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) enforcement action confirms market participants’ worst fears that the CFTC is prepared to, and is able to, find violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (“CEA”)...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Business Not as Usual – COVID 19: US Securities and Derivatives Industry Regulators Provide Relief and Guidance

Key Points - - This Katten Advisory focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on regulatory compliance obligations of financial firms operating in the United States, with a focus on securities and derivatives industry...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

A CFTC Helping Hand: DSIO Offers to Review Digital Asset Products

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Product innovation (including in pooled investment vehicles) is encouraged, but innovation must be consistent with the law. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - January 2020 #2

A non-US-based investment and brokerage firm agreed to settle spoofing allegations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by payment of a US $700,000 fine. In accepting this settlement, the CFTC emphasized the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Financial Firms Beware: Dangers Lurk in the Cloud

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US regulators are calling attention to financial firms’ obligations to protect against evolving cybersecurity threats. On October 2, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) issued an information notice to...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - October 2019 #2

A broker-dealer and its chief executive officer settled charges brought in 2017 by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the firm facilitated manipulative conduct by a customer, despite being alerted by regulators and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFTC Settlement Asserts Data Breach Disclosure Requirement for Future Commission Merchants

On September 12, 2019, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a settlement with Phillip Capital Inc. (PCI or the “Company”), a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), after hackers successfully...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Compliance Officers Beware: Your Conversations With the NFA During Examinations Could Lead to Charges

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) sent a strong message to Chief Compliance Officers (“CCO”) this week when it held a CCO held accountable for lying to the National Futures Association (“NFA”) during an...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - September 2019 #2

An interdealer broker agreed to pay a fine of US $13 million to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to resolve charges that it failed to supervise brokers on a swaps desk that allegedly made numerous false or misleading...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging The Week - September 2019

A clearing organization for futures and securities was sanctioned US $20 million in aggregate by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly not having and following...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - January 2019 #2

A well-renowned think tank sued the Securities and Exchange Commission claiming that the SEC’s prohibition against respondents contesting allegations in enforcement settlements violates the freedom of speech guarantee under...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Week - December 2018

A federal judge said that it is not a violation of federal law for a trading firm and its chief executive officer to be smarter than their counterparties in ruling against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in an...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Developments in Cryptocurrency in 2018

• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff made official statements regarding when a token may or may no longer be a security • The SEC continued to bring actions related to cryptocurrency offerings against...more

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SEC Cybersecurity Update

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Results from the SEC’s First Round of Cybersecurity Examinations - On February 3, 2015, the OCIE published a risk alert summarizing its findings from its examinations of over 100 registered investment advisers and...more

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Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest - Volume X, Issue 14

In This Issue: - NFA Updates BASIC to Assist With Bylaw 1101 Diligence on Delegating CPOs - Second Circuit Refuses to Rehear Groundbreaking Insider Trading Case - SEC Secures Victory on Fraud Allegations...more

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