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Futures contracts for agricultural commodities have been traded in the U.S. for more than 150 years and have been under federal regulation since the 1920s. [7] The Grain Futures Act of 1922 set the basic authority and was changed by the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.).
The Dodd-Frank Act amended the Commodity Exchange Act's with adding Section 23, named the "Commodity Whistleblower Incentives and Protection." [1] Section 23 and the rules and regulations the CFTC has issued to implement the section's provisions govern the Whistleblower Program. [5]
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will reorganize its Division of Enforcement's task forces to end "regulation by enforcement" and instead focus on combating fraud and helping victims ...
Brooksley Elizabeth Born [1] (born August 27, 1940) [1] is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996, to June 1, 1999, was chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency which oversees the U.S. futures and commodity options markets. [2]
Commodity Main exchange MIC Contract size Symbol Corn: CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu C/ZC (Electronic) Corn EURONEXT: 50 tons EMA Corn DCE: XDCE: 10 metric tons c Oats CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu O/ZO (Electronic) Rough Rice CBOT: XCBT: 2000 cwt: ZR Soybeans CBOT: XCBT: 5000 bu: S/ZS (Electronic) No 2. Soybean DCE XDCE: 10 metric tons b Rapeseed: EURONEXT 50 ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will nominate Christy Goldsmith Romero, a Democratic member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to replace Martin Gruenberg as chair ...
Signed into law by President Gerald Ford on October 23, 1974 Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-463) created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , to replace the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's Commodity Exchange Authority , as the independent federal agency responsible for regulating the futures trading ...
From 2013 to 2014, she served as special counsel and policy advisor to CFTC Commissioner Scott D. O'Malia. Since 2014, she has worked in several positions at Citigroup. [5] [6] In December 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Pham to be a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. [5]