The new chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission sounds ready to take on prediction markets, including sports event contracts.

The newly sworn in chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission signaled Thursday that the agency will write new rules governing prediction markets. Why it matters: Prediction markets are booming ...

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will draft new regulations governing the burgeoning market for so-called event ...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket in the U.S., ...

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NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MoonPay, the global leader in crypto payments, announced the appointment of Caroline D. Pham as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. Pham will ...

On Thursday, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that spot Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) products will begin trading for the first time on its registered futures exchanges.

On May 21, 2025, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Market Participants Division (MPD) and Division of Market Oversight (DMO) jointly issued a staff interpretive letter regarding ...

Derivatives market participants and exchanges can breathe a little easier now that Staff of the Market Participants Division and the Division of Market Oversight of the Commodity Futures Trading ...