Position Limits

Chairman Timothy Massad and Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) delivered speeches at the Energy Risk Summit in Houston this week, providing a roadmap for the CFTC’s current and upcoming rulemaking as well as a policy perspective on the CFTC’s proposed position limit rules.
Continue Reading CFTC Officials Outline Commission’s Policy Positions at Energy Risk Summit USA 2015

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) proposed rule on position limits continues to be a priority for energy market participants, as both Congress and the CFTC are actively reviewing this issue.  The final rule threatens well-established hedging and risk management practices related to the trading of futures and swaps by…
Continue Reading CFTC Position Limits: Recent Congressional and Ongoing CFTC Developments

In a notice published in the Federal Register earlier this week, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) again reopened the period to comment on its proposed position limits and aggregation rules, in light of questions posed at an Agricultural Advisory Committee meeting in December.  The CFTC’s proposed rules, which we…
Continue Reading CFTC Reopens Comment Period for Position Limits

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on December 16 unanimously elected Commissioner Mark Wetjen to serve as Acting Chairman when current Chairman Gary Gensler departs, which could be as soon as January 3, 2014.  President Obama has nominated Timothy Massad, Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability at the Treasury Department, to…
Continue Reading Mark Wetjen Named Acting Chairman of CFTC