Displaying results 131 - 140 of 271
Statement of Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson Regarding CFTC Consent Order Imposing $1.7 Billion in Restitution against South African Commodity Pool Operator
… Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) announced … scheme by which they solicited and accepted nearly 30,000 bitcoin from at least 23,000 people located in the U.S. for … Pool Operator and CEO with $1.7 Billion Fraud Involving Bitcoin, June 20, 2022, …
CFTC Charges California-based Company and Its CEO with Fraudulent Solicitation and Misappropriation of Digital Asset Commodities
… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today it has charged … defendants fraudulently solicited over $7 million worth of bitcoin and ether from customers. The complaint also alleges … The defendants represented they would trade investors’ bitcoin and ether using “Robot Traders.” The complaint …
CFTC Releases Annual Enforcement Results
… Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today released the agency’s … arising from defendants’ acceptance of at least 29,421 Bitcoin—with a value of over $1,733,838,372—from … an evaluation of the potential self-certification of a bitcoin futures contract. The proposed bitcoin futures …
Remarks of Commissioner Brian D. Quintenz before the Eurofi High Level Seminar 2018
… his groundbreaking paper on a cryptocurrency called Bitcoin almost a decade ago, we have witnessed the … to derivatives trading on cryptocurrencies – such as futures contracts on Bitcoin – including setting requirements for registration of …
CFTC Issues First Pump-and-Dump Virtual Currency Customer Protection Advisory
… Avoid Pump-and-Dump Schemes Washington, DC  — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued a  Customer … the CFTC’s dedicated virtual currency web page,  cftc.gov/bitcoin . * * * * * * * * See the CFTC’s Other Customer …
Keynote Address of Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo before the Markit Group, 2016 Annual Customer Conference New York
… do not necessarily constitute the views of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), my fellow CFTC … UBS Bank Is Experimenting with “Smart-Bonds” Using the Bitcoin Blockchain , Bitcoin Magazine, June 12, 2015, …
Testimony of Chairman Rostin Behnam Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
… it is already too late. Dating back to when the first bitcoin futures contracts and binary options self-certified in 2017, … Number 7654-17, CFTC, Statement on Self-Certification of Bitcoin Products by CME, CFE and Cantor Exchange (Dec. 1, …
Remarks of CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero before the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s Crypto Forum 2022, New York
… decade as the Special Inspector General over TARP. You see, Bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was borne of, or at least … Congress authorized TARP, Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, published a whitepaper stating, “I’ve been working … foundation may have liquidated as much as $3.5 billion of Bitcoin, placing downward pressure on Bitcoin, affecting all …
Testimony of Chairman Rostin Behnam Regarding “Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation”
… you today for the first time as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).  I appreciate the … is even larger, with notional exchange volumes in just bitcoin futures surpassing those numbers. [2] Although the … ). [2] Volume of Bitcoin Futures, The Block ( …
Opening Statement of Commissioner Dawn D. Stump Before the Market Risk Advisory Committee
… Agriculture Committee report accompanying the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act, the Committee made a keen … suggesting that the CFTC is promoting such things as bitcoin or carbon emission controls.  The public should … by the presence of risk — for example, some may utilize bitcoin futures to hedge inflationary risks, and others will …