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CFTC Official Warns Regulatory Frameworks are Falling Behind Digital Markets

WASHINGTON, September 3, 2026 — A senior Commodity Futures Trading Commission official warned during remarks at George Washington University that international regulatory frameworks are struggling to keep pace with increasingly interconnected, programmable and autonomous financial markets, pointing to gaps in supervisory cooperation, financial-stability oversight, global standard-setting governance and market safeguards.