Last week the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) delivered its long-awaited definitional clarification defining a "swaps dealer" as a firm trading above $8 billion swaps or option-to-swaps ...

Did public pension funds cause an energy price bubble? More than a few noteworthy investors, George Soros among them, believed there was, indeed, a correlation between crude oil prices running up ...

Learn how the Commodity Exchange Act governs U.S. commodities and futures trading, its role in financial markets, and the evolving challenge of cryptocurrency regulation.

Following a delay in the original implementation date of 25 May 2022, the CFTC rewrite has now gone into effect with the aim of correcting errors in swap data. The US Commodity Futures Trading ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AEGIS Hedging Solutions (“AEGIS”) today announced that its application to form a registered Swap Execution Facility (“SEF”) has received final approval from the ...

Goldman Sachs will pay a $15 million fine to settle charges from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) it manipulated the execution of same-day swaps to the detriment of unsophisticated ...

Capital at risk. The value of your investments can go up and down, and you may get back less than you invest. It’s been a tough few months for investors. The US technology growth stocks were first to ...