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CFTC report urges expansion of oversight to exempt markets

11/26/2007
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has requested oversight authority over some contracts and products in unregulated electronic trading venues known as exempt commercial markets (ECMs).The request came Oct. 24 in a report to Congress hours before the House Agriculture Committee’s General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee’s scheduled hearing on reauthorization of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), which governs the CFTC (OGJ Online, Oct. 23, 2007).“This report is designed to provide recommendations that strike a delicate balance between the appropriate level of market oversight and transparency while promoting market innovation and competition to e...
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