Rewriting the rule book: US government sets about regulating Bitcoin LeapRate

May 19, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Rewriting the rule book: US government sets about regulating Bitcoin

A very poignant question which remains unanswered among senior government officials and crypto-currency proponents alike is how to regulate the unregulatable. By its very nature, the trading, sale, and generation of Bitcoin is purely peer to peer and borderless, rendering it outside the jurisdiction of national governments. Therefore, certain nations such as China and Thailand…

May 14, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

CFTC set to hold public meeting on HFT - Will America remain prop-shop friendly?

On June 3, the CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting to discuss its surveillance program, SEFs, and the currently hot topic of automated trading and HFT, a sector which thrives within the trading desks of Chicago and New York

April 02, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Changes at the top: Votes take place this month as CFTC is set to shuffle senior commissioners

Senate Agriculture Committee to meet on April 6 to cast votes on three senior level regulatory officials within one of the world's most well-renowned authorities Among the very upper echelons of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), not only are there some of the world's most highly respected and knowledgeable financial markets regulators, but…

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