The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is upgrading its financial technology research wing, LabCFTC, into an independent office.
"We saw a bubble building and we thought the best way to address it was to allow the market to interact with it," said Christopher Giancarlo.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert says the crypto world will see ethereum futures contracts sometime in 2020.
Noelle Acheson shows how using notional volumes to compare derivatives markets to spot is misleading – but, for now, it’s all we’ve got.
Purported crypto and forex investment firm Circle Society is accused by the CFTC of operating like a Ponzi scheme.
Two former ranking members of the CFTC offered up a plan for a government-sanctioned, blockchain-based digital dollar.
The heads of three U.S. financial regulators warned the crypto industry to abide by banking laws in a joint statement published Friday.
CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has just said ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is a commodity not a security.
A man faces charges by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the CFTC over claims he took money for bulk bitcoin orders that were never delivered.
LedgerX claims former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo threatened the company for personal reasons, two letters obtained by CoinDesk reveal.
New CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has named Coinbase general counsel Dorothy DeWitt as the agency's new director of market oversight.
Former CFTC chairman Christopher Giancarlo has joined the advisory board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.
Noelle Acheson points out that the LedgerX confusion highlights potential CFTC priorities regarding the regulation of crypto derivatives that could lead to the opposite of what the regulator intends.
Amir Zaidi, director of the CFTC's Division of Market Oversight, is to leave the regulator within weeks, according to Bloomberg Law.
The director of the CFTC's experimental fintech initiative will step down in mid-August to pursue work in the private sector.