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For CME Group, nothing is more important than the confidence customers have in our marketplace and the protection of our customers when using our markets. Earlier this year, CME Group…

At the Kansas City Conference we discussed CFTC Rule 1.71, which among other things, applies to conflicts of interests within a brokerage operation.  That is to say that the “research”…

Over the past several months, NFA has worked with the industry to develop a number of rules to strengthen the protection of customer segregated funds. We will describe these rules…

Today’s FCMs face not just one risk, but many. Regulatory changes may dramatically alter the business model and viability of some. For other, managing risk associate with outsourcing key operations…

David Oppedahl is a business economist in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where he directs the Chicago Federal Reserve District’s survey of agricultural banks…

U.S. corn and soybean yields were dramatically reduced by the drought and heat wave of 2012. Hints of the drought began in mid-May as the coverage of subsoil dryness rapidly…

To put it lightly, selecting a futures commission merchant (“FCM”) has become increasingly difficult during the last year. With the failure of MF Global (“MFG”), Peregrine Financial Group (“PFG”), and…

The National Futures Association's board of directors has approved rules that would require futures brokerage to provide regulators with view-only online access to customers' account information. If the Commodity Futures…

Statement of Commissioner Bart Chilton on the Futures Investor and Customer Protection Act (FICPA) Proposal August 9, 2012 Last November, in the wake of the MF Global debacle, I called…

James Giddens, the trustee liquidating the broker-dealer unit of MF Global Holdings, has asked Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn to approve a deal where CME Group would return $160 million to…