CFTC Regulatory Approach to Virtual Currencies
Monday, December 21, 2020 Virtual Currencies as Commodities In recent years, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or the Commission) has taken a role as one of the regulators of cryptocurrency in the United States. In this article, we review the CFTC’s regulatory and enforcement approach in this space. In December 2014, the CFTC stated that virtual currencies are encompassed under the definition of a “commodity” in the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and thus subject to its jurisdiction. [1] Nine months later, in September 2015, the CFTC brought its first enforcem...
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