WASHINGTON, April 15, 2026 — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved coordinated exemptive relief to expand customer cross-margining in the U.S. Treasury market, allowing certain eligible intermediaries to offer customer cross-margining with margin offsets across cleared cash Treasury positions and Treasury futures.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2026 — A federal court in Arizona granted a temporary restraining order requested by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission barring the state from continuing criminal enforcement proceedings against CFTC-regulated designated contract markets, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2026 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it has filed a motion in federal court seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to halt the state of Arizona’s efforts to apply criminal and gambling laws to CFTC-regulated prediction markets, according to a press release.
WASHINGTON, April 2 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it has filed lawsuits against the U.S. states of Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois, challenging actions taken against CFTC-registered designated contract markets and seeking to reaffirm its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, April 2 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted its motion for summary judgment against James R.
WASHINGTON, April 1 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said a U.S. federal court has entered a supplemental consent order against Nishad Singh, and, together with a prior order, resolves the agency’s enforcement action against the former head of engineering at FTX, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, March 30 — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said a U.S. federal court has entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, a company associated with the operation of the KuCoin exchange, for allowing U.S. participants to access its trading system without registering as a foreign board of trade, according to a CFTC press release.
WASHINGTON, March 24 — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday announced the formation of an Innovation Task Force to advance what it described as “clear rules of the road” for emerging technologies, including crypto assets and blockchain technologies.
Recent U.S. crypto guidance reframes the regulatory conversation away from classification and toward application. Over the past week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have issued materials that stop short of a comprehensive market-structure framework, yet provide increasingly specific direction on how existing law and supervisory practice attach to digital-asset activity.
WASHINGTON, March 20 — Staff of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued responses to frequently asked questions clarifying how existing regulatory frameworks apply to crypto asset and blockchain-related activities by registrants and registered entities.
