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A commodity trading advisor (CTA) is US financial regulatory term for an individual or organization who is retained by a fund or individual client to provide advice and services related to trading in futures contracts, commodity options and/or swaps. [1] [2] They are responsible for the trading within managed futures accounts.
A commodity broker is a firm or an individual who executes orders to buy or sell commodity contracts on behalf of the clients and charges them a commission. A firm or individual who trades for his own account is called a trader. Commodity contracts include futures, options, and similar financial derivatives.
Commodity traders are people or companies who speculate and trade in commodities as diverse as metals and spices. Historical. Fuggers [1] Jacques Cœur [1]
The NASD was founded on September 3, 1936 as Investment Bankers Conference, Inc. [9] and, on August 7, 1939, was registered under the name National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. [10] as a national securities association with the SEC under authority granted by the 1938 Maloney Act amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, [11] which allowed it to supervise the conduct of its ...
2002 Acquired Consultrans, an Ontario-based transportation brokerage and warehousing company, doubling its North American truck transportation management operations. [ 13 ] 2003 Acquired Chicago-based customs broker and freight forwarder Osowski, launching Livingston into the U.S. air/sea customs and freight forwarding market.
The regulator relies on the work of the national self-regulatory organization—the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO)—for most aspects of the regulation of the organization's member firms and their employees. Accountability for securities regulation extends from the securities regulator to the Minister responsible for ...
In January 2019, Marex Spectron announced that it had acquired London-based trading firm CSC Commodities from BGC European Holdings. [14] In December 2019, the Group announced it had acquired London-based Marquee Oil, [15] a physical oil broker. In March 2020 the Group acquired Tangent Trading, [16] a scrap metal trading firm.
Its clearing members serve both professional traders and public customers and are approximately 115 of the largest U.S. broker-dealers, futures commission merchants and non-U.S. securities firms. OCC also serves other markets, including those of trading commodity futures, commodity options, and security futures.