Commodity Futures Trading Commission

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a joint request for public comment on potential opportunities to harmonize, modernize, and streamline data reporting requirements in their regulation of the swap and security-based swap markets, respectively.

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission today issued a joint request for public comment on potential opportunities to further update, clarify, and harmonize certain derivatives product definitions and interpretive issues.

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order that resolves the CFTC’s 2023 enforcement action against Alexander Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of Celsius Network LLC. [See CFTC Press Release No. 8749-23].

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Clearing and Risk, Division of Market Oversight, and Market Participants Division today announced they have taken no-action positions related to a request from three service providers, Capitolis Partners LLC, Quantile Technologies Limited (as part of the London Stock Exchange Group plc), and TriOptima AB (as part of OSTTRA) that offer post-trade risk reduction services (PTRRS) for swaps in the form of portfolio rebalancing...

June 16, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a Request for Information to assist the Commission in identifying regulations, guidance documents, orders, no-action letters, and other items (“CFTC regulatory item(s)”) that unduly impede fintech firms from entering into partnerships with federally regulated institutions as well as CFTC regulatory items that could be amended to streamline application processes for eligible fintech firms.

WASHINGTON — Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael S. Selig today announced two senior staff appointments. Donald Battle as Chief Data Innovation Officer Don Battle joins the CFTC as chief data innovation officer, serving in the Division of Data and as a member of the Innovation Task Force. “I am thrilled to welcome Don Battle to the CFTC,” Chairman Selig said.

June 12, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight today announced it has issued no-action relief to designated contract markets seeking to convert their existing perpetual style digital commodity futures contracts into true digital commodity perpetual futures.

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state of New Mexico, seeking to block the state’s efforts to apply state gaming laws against CFTC-registered contract markets.

June 11, 2026 WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend its whistleblower rules. The proposal incorporates a 30 percent presumption for whistleblower awards of $5 million or less, subject to Commission discretion and its analysis of relevant regulatory factors. The proposed rule is modeled on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rule 21F-6(c), further enhancing the ongoing efforts at harmonization between the two Commissions.

America’s derivatives markets are the most liquid and innovative in the world because our regulations have evolved alongside changes in our markets. From agriculture futures to financial futures and electronic trading, the history of American derivatives market regulation has been defined by our ability to apply enduring principles to new technologies and new forms of market activity.