The U.S. National Futures Association (NFA) has just published its 2015 Annual Review, entitled “Protection. That's our purpose”, covering the activities of the organization for the period from July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015. The document includes the highlights for the period in question, including enforcement actions taken, fines collected and new important rules…
Read moreThe proposal, which was first issued in late 2013, is finally approved and will demand from IBs, commodity trading advisors and certain commodity pool operators to have registration with the National Futures Association.
Read moreThe new rules suggested by the NFA will now become regulation, the rules proposed were based upon the events of January's Swiss Franc spike.
Read moreNFA cannot determine what Jonathan Parker did with the approximately $400,000 he collected from pool participants.
Read moreThe case of “one Forex dealer member” that suffered losses on Black Thursday has led to profound changes in US Forex regulation, including higher capital requirements.
Read moreThe sum reflects higher expenses, due to the expansion of swaps regulatory programs and beefing up of NFA's technology staffing.
Read moreln one e-mail to an undercover NFA staff member, the cited CTA said that he "hoped to profit 100 million dollars every year for the next ten years because of his technical trading analysis that is quite accurate..."
Read moreOn October 7 , 2014, approximately $12 million was auto-swept overnight by UBS' depository from a customer secured amount funds account to a nonsecured amount funds account, amounting to a withdrawal of more than 25% of residual interest, resulting in a $17,500 fine
Read moreEstablished in 1987, PAMC is under scrutiny from the NFA for allegedly soliciting clients by using misleading promotional material that promised dramatic profits, and contained hypothetical trading results
Read moreRegulatory authorities have continued their disapproving stance with regard to FX schemes which promise very high returns, this time with the NFA banning Texan managed account provider McElhannon Group and its owner, for promising 457% return over a 13 year period
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