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Risk Management Commodities Futures Trading Commission Regulatory Oversight

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

CFTC Divisions Issue Staff Advisory on Referrals to Division of Enforcement

On April 17, 2025, the Market Participants Division, the Division of Clearing and Risk, and the Division of Market Oversight (collectively, the "Operating Divisions") of the CFTC, along with the Division of Enforcement...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

CFTC Withdraws Pair of Advisories on Heightened Review Approach to Digital Asset Derivatives

On March 28, the staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued two press releases announcing the withdrawal of two previous advisories that reflected the agency's heightened review approach to digital asset...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CFTC Staff Withdraws Advisory on Virtual Currency Derivative Product Listings

On March 28, 2025, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) and Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) announced in CFTC Letter 25-07 that they are withdrawing CFTC Staff Advisory...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Amid Chaos, Regulatory Change Continues Apace, March 2025 - New CFTC Enforcement Guidance

On February 25th, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC”) Division of Enforcement (“Division”) issued a long-awaited advisory (the “Advisory”) regarding its evaluation of how a company’s or individual’s...more

K&L Gates LLP

CFTC Staff Takes a "Measured First Step" in Artificial Intelligence

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Introduction - On 5 December 2024, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Divisions of Clearing and Risk, Data, Market Oversight, and Market Participants issued a staff advisory on the use of artificial intelligence...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Revolutionary Smartphone Data Collection Technology Helps Corporations Enforce and Comply with Regulatory Rules

The use of smartphones in the workplace is commonplace. Smartphones can offer many benefits to employees and employers, such as increased productivity, communication, collaboration, and flexibility. Hence, many companies...more

Foley Hoag LLP - White Collar Law &...

Federal Cryptocurrency Enforcement in 2023

This is the eighth part in our 2023 series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations. Up next: anti-corruption. The tumultuous crypto events of 2022, combined with the heightened agency and executive...more

K&L Gates LLP

Where the United States Goes, the FCA Will Inevitably Follow: Regulatory Action Against the Use of Personal Mobile Devices

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The ability to maintain effective and accurate recordkeeping, a key method of ensuring market integrity, has been tested in recent years. The widespread use of personal mobile devices, instant messaging services, and general...more

Orrick - On the Chain

Cryptocurrency and OFAC: Beware of the Sanctions Risks

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A recent federal criminal action shows the depth of the U.S. government’s concern about the use of cryptocurrency (or virtual currency) to violate economic sanctions laws and the lengths to which it will go to charge such...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Cryptoasset Exchanges Respond to New York Attorney General’s Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative

On April 17, 2018, the New York Attorney General’s Office (“OAG”) launched a Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative and sent letters to thirteen cryptoasset trading platforms requesting, through a questionnaire, disclosures on...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

U.S. Senate Hearing on Cryptocurrencies

On Feb. 6, Jay Clayton and Christopher Giancarlo, the chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), respectively, jointly testified before the Senate Banking...more

Stinson LLP

Emerging Trends Newsletter - Q3

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We are thrilled to bring you the third installment of Stinson Leonard Street's Emerging Trends newsletter. We are proud of the depth and breadth of experience and knowledge across our firm's 13 offices nationwide and are...more

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