Commodity Futures Trading Commission

noun

U.S. Government.

1. an independent regulatory agency, created in 1975, that supervises the trading of futures on commodity exchanges. CFTC

Example Sentences

In 2022, Polymarket blocked access to Americans after a settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which accused the company of running an unregistered derivatives-trading platform.

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Founded in 2020, Polymarket is off-limits to Americans under the terms of a 2022 settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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These contracts and their corresponding markets are regulated on the federal level by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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As an exchange licensed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Kalshi makes its sports contracts available nationwide—even in states such as California and Texas, where online sports betting is illegal.

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission was more circumspect, concluding in 2014 that high-frequency trades didn’t cause the flash crash, but “contributed to it by demanding immediacy ahead of other market participants.”

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