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<p><span>Today, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) announced a settlement agreement with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (J.P. Morgan) following over a decade of trade surveillance supervision failures in violation of Regulation 166.3.</span></p>
<p><span>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against </span><span>J.P. Morgan Securities LLC</span><span>, a registered futures commission merchant and swap dealer, for failing diligently to supervise its business as a CFTC registrant, resulting in J.P. Morgan failing to capture billions of orders in its surveillance systems.</span></p>
<p><span>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that on April 15, a jury in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin issued a verdict finding Edward S. Walczak liable for engaging in conduct that operated as a fraud or deceit upon investors, potential investors, or investment advisors, in violation of Section 4o(1)(B) of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).</span></p>
<p><span>The Commodity Futures Trading Commission</span><span> today filed a federal civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging <span>Dwayne Golden </span>of Florida, <span>Jatin Patel </span>of India, <span>Marquis Egerton </span>of North Carolina, and <span>Gregory Aggesen</span> of New York with fraud for operating Ponzi schemes involving bitcoin, for fraudulently soliciting more than $...