The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 created the CFTC to replace the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Exchange Authority, as the independent federal agency responsible ...

The US Senate has less than a week of business before it is scheduled to go on recess for a month, leaving a vote on ...

The future of the global derivatives market, a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise underpinning the smooth functioning of ...

J. Christopher Giancarlo was selected to run the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates the sort of derivatives trading that spread panic on Wall Street in 2008.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is one of the least known but most important financial regulatory agencies in the United States. It is responsible for ensuring the efficiency and ...

File photograph dated May 6, 2010 shows traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange looking at stocks during the final minutes of trading during the Wall Street “flash crash”, which was ...

Bipartisan legislation introduced Thursday would provide the Commodity Futures Trading Commission oversight authority over the growing cryptocurrency market. The Digital Commodity Exchange Act is ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, created by Congress in 1974, regulates the US markets for derivatives, contracts between parties in which prices are derived from the value of an ...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, an aggressive Wall Street watchdog under President Obama, hopes companies will be lured with smaller penalties. By Sept. 24, 2017 ...