CFTC Orders Commodity Trading Firm to Pay $3.4 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation of Agricultural Markets Market manipulation

CFTC release 7754-18 · 2018-07-12 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number
7754-18
Release date
2018-07-12
Type
Market manipulation
Primary source
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7754-18

About CFTC enforcement

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.