Under the newly minted 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the Commodity Futures and Trading Commission is chartered to monitor non-agricultural commodities trading, to promote transparency and to prevent asset bubbles.
In a statement Thursday evening, the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission said they are working with other regulators and the exchanges to review unusual trading activity during the afternoon.
In December, the House subcommittee questioned MF Global officials, including Mr. Corzine, as well as representatives of regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which has already been studying how fast computers affect stock trading, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are coordinating their investigation into what went wrong Thursday, when the stock market went haywire and collapsed nearly 1, 000 points in 20 minutes, only to recover most of the lost ground.
The Volcker rule is being crafted by five regulators, including the Fed, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
He proposes increases for the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, two financial regulators that have come under fire after recent Wall Street mishaps.
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold a two-day conference to sort out their respective roles in the Obama administration's plan to revise how to police America's markets.
High frequency traders will give their views on what happened in the markets during the May 6 crash on Tuesday afternoon during the second meeting of a joint investigative panel of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
For example independent agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Reserve get a pass on review.
To prevent a repeat of the credit crunch and market breakdowns we have witnessed over the past two years, extensive rule-making by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among others, will be necessary.
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Brian Hunter, the gas trader, tried to raise money for another commodity fund, Solengo Capital, until he was sued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and named in an administrative action by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have requested significant budget increases to ensure that they are not forced to compromise existing services.
There were high hopes originally for Schapiro, who had plenty of regulatory experience running the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The Justice Department started investigating potential rate manipulation about three years ago, in conjunction with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
"This unlevels the playing field and gives certain traders advantages over others, " says Sharon Brown-Hruska, former acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and an economist at nera Economic Consulting.
The bank agreed to pay the fines to the Financial Services Authority, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Department of Justice, entering into a deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S. related to one count of wire fraud.
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The working group, which includes representatives of the SEC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, came to the same conclusion as Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, who said in February that more regulation isn't necessarily the answer.
Since that day, regulators from both the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have been trying to piece together how a flood of early afternoon selling in stock futures and in stocks themselves led to a momentary 998-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.
For example, the FDIC has the authority to wind down unstable financial firms, banking regulators have a tighter grip on setting capital standards, the Securities and Exchange Commission will have greater oversight over hedge funds and private equity firms, and the SEC and Commodity Futures Trading Commission will coordinate regulation of derivatives.
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It would create a super-agency that rolls up the investor protection functions of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, National Futures Association, FINRA and Securities Investors Protection Corp.
"The OCC has historically been thought to be sympathetic to banking interests, " said Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland and former director of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's division of trading and markets.
Speculative positions in U.S. gold futures and options as measured by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are just off the lowest levels seen since at least 2009 according to one survey of managed-money positions by the agency.
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Investors have piled into platinum, as seen by the rising net-long positions in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission data and record holdings in exchange-traded funds.
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For example, the controversial Volcker rule remains unfinished, as the SEC has been unable to reach a consensus with the other regulatory bodies involved, including the Federal Reserve and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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However, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data and option volumes (currently 50% lower than at the height of the crisis last year) indicate that the market is not positioned for an intense EUR sell-off just yet.
In both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the managed-money and larger trader speculative non-commercial accounts increased their net-long positions in the yellow metal.
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In both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the managed-money and larger trader speculative non-commercial accounts greatly increased their net-long positions in the yellow metal.
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In both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the managed-money and larger trader speculative non-commercial accounts sizably increased their net-long positions in the yellow metal.
In both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the managed-money and larger trader speculative non-commercial accounts sharply cut their net-long positions in precious metals and were short in copper.
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In both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the managed-money and larger trader speculative non-commercial accounts increased their net-long positions in the yellow metal, following several weeks of a decrease.
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