US Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo announced the appointment of federal prosecutor James McDonald as the agency’s new Director of Enforcement. Mr. McDonald, who was most recently a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, will assume his duties at the agency on April 10, 2017. On April 3, 2017, Acting Chairman Giancarlo announced that Andrew Busch has been named the CFTC’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer, responsible for harnessing the CFTC’s market intelligence capabilities and, combined with industry and policy maker outreach, identifying and communicating emerging trends in the commodity futures markets and reporting directly to the CFTC Chairman.
