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Constitutional Challenges Commodities Futures Trading Commission Appeals

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Recent State Enforcement Actions Take Aim at Sports-Based Event Contracts

In recent months, numerous online commodity trading markets have begun to offer sports-based event contracts concerning the outcome of various sporting events. These event contracts—which are a type of derivative...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bridging the Weeks - June 2018 #3

Last week, the Bank for International Settlements strongly criticized cryptocurrencies, claiming that trust in digital tokens could disappear at any time because of the “fragility of the decentralized consensus through which...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Fed held its last Open Markets Committee meeting under outgoing Chair Yellen, and it agreed to hold the benchmark rate in a range between 1.25% and 1.5%. Here’s the lowdown....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

CFTC Case Updates: Settlement Highlights Agency’s New Premium on Cooperation; 7th Circuit Upholds Criminal Spoofing Conviction

On August 7, 2017, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) announced a settlement for a civil penalty of $600,000 with the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU) for alleged spoofing violations, with...more

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