A Connecticut-based commodities firm settled CFTC charges for trading on misappropriated material non-public information.
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The CFTC Division of Market Oversight extended no-action relief from the ownership and control reporting requirements for reporting entities.
The CFTC Market Participants Division extended temporary no-action relief to permit futures commission merchants to invest customer funds in securities that include an adjustable interest rate benchmarked to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.
The CFTC charged a resident of Puerto Rico and his firm with trading on material nonpublic information on gas futures received from an insider at an energy company.
A CFTC final rule that applies federal speculative position limits to 25 "core referenced futures contracts," including futures and options linked to those contracts and economically equivalent swaps, was published in the Federal Register.