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Morgan Lewis - Power & Pipes

CFTC 2023 Enforcement Report Shows Uptick in Enforcement Actions

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) released its enforcement results for fiscal year 2023 on November 7, 2023. The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement filed 96 enforcement actions in 2023 charging a range...more

BakerHostetler

Jury Finds Former NFT Marketplace Manager Guilty of 'Insider Trading' Wire Fraud Scheme and Money Laundering

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On May 3, 2023, a jury found Nathaniel Chastain, a former manager of OpenSea (a major NFT marketplace), guilty of wire fraud and money laundering in connection with his attempts to conceal his use of confidential business...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Insider Trading in Commodities Markets: An Evolving Enforcement Priority

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The CFTC and the DOJ both now pursue enforcement actions against trading in commodities based on misappropriation of confidential information. Among the many changes resulting from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFTC Brings Energy Market Insider Trading Case, Announces Insider Trading Task Force

• The CFTC has filed a new “insider trading” enforcement action involving the energy markets—the agency’s third energy market insider trading case since 2015. • The CFTC also created an Insider Trading and Information...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Traders and Compliance Professionals Take Note: Phase One of New BIS “Global Code” Establishes “Best Practices” in the Foreign...

Limitations on Use of Confidential Information is Prominent in the New Standards Continuing Recent Enforcement Trend in the Commodities and Derivatives Markets - On May 26, 2016, the Foreign Exchange Working Group...more

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