February 2019

Trends in trade surveillance and regulation   In the first two installments in this blog series, we looked at the regulatory actions from the CFTC in fiscal year 2018 and one of the central messages that the agency is trying to deliver. In the first case, we saw that the size and complexity of enforcement […]

Trends in Trade Surveillance and Regulation   In the first installment of this blog series we took a look at the details surrounding the CFTC’s enforcement activities in the 2018 fiscal year as laid out in a speech from the agency’s Enforcement Director, James McDonald. McDonald focused on the agency’s four priorities – preserving market

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Trends in Trade Surveillance and Regulation   2018 was a record-breaking year for the CFTC and this point was brought home forcefully in a recent speech from Enforcement Director James McDonald. Speaking to the NYU School of Law, McDonald delivered a clear and forceful recounting of the enforcement actions that the agency undertook during the