CFTC Staff Letters provides Letters from 2008 and later. For Letters published before 2008 visit the Letters Archive page.

Washington, D.C. — CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham, sponsor of the Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), today announced new members and leadership of the GMAC and its Subcommittees on Global ...

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered a default judgment against defendants Brian Early and Alisha ...

Michael S. Selig was sworn into office as the 16th Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on December 22, 2025. Chairman Selig most recently served as Chief Counsel of the Securities and ...

Over about a three-year period, Cornelius Johannes Steynberg, a citizen of the Republic of South Africa, stole more than $1.7 billion in bitcoin from at least 23,000 people using a few websites, as ...

Fraudsters are contacting potential victims on their phones to try to lure them into cryptocurrency scams with promises of guaranteed returns. Spot the fraud by remembering all trades involve a risk ...

Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has unanimously approved an amended order that exempts three Recognized Market Operators (RMOs) authorized within ...

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Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against Vitol, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, and its affiliate, Vitol SA, headquartered ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued six orders simultaneously filing and settling material compliance-related violations against 10 firms resulting in a combined ...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered two consent orders against Gregg Smith of New York and Michael Nowak of New Jersey for spoofing in the precious metals futures ...