CFTC Orders New York Firm D.E. Shaw & Co. L.P. to Pay $140,000 Penalty for Violating Soybean and Corn Futures Speculative Position Limits Other enforcement

Key facts

Release number

6186-12

Release date

2012-02-23

Type

Other enforcement

Primary source

https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6186-12

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The CFTC charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and commodity-pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension. Crypto-asset cases have been a major share since 2019.