CFTC seeks comments on AI compute derivatives
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Various Bloomberg clips from the Financial Markets Quality Conference at Georgetown University on September 23 feature interviews with financial regulators, executives, and academics discussing prediction markets, private equity, AI regulation, and market structure. No single coherent story connects the disparate expert commentary.
Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, was ordered on August 29-30, 2026, to forfeit over $100,000 in profits and pay a $172,000 fine for using non-public information about Trump's speeches to place bets on the Kalshi prediction market. The CFTC penalty settled the insider trading probe.
Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, was fined $172,000 by the CFTC on August 29, 2026, for trading on prediction-market platform Kalshi using advance knowledge of President Trump's speeches. Perez profited over $100,000 from the illegal trades and was ordered to forfeit all gains.
On 20 August 2026, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig announced the commission will establish cryptocurrency market structure rules unilaterally if Congress fails to pass the Clarity Act. Selig committed to moving swiftly with regulatory clarity despite legislative delays.
It's the latest move by the company as it and other event contract exchanges seek to gain greater participation by institutional traders.
Former Rep. George Santos agreed to pay $35,000 to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settle allegations he engaged in insider trading by placing wagers on Kalshi about whether he would attend the February 2026 State of the Union address. The CFTC alleged his bets were manipulative.
The US Senate voted to block the Clarity Act cryptocurrency regulation bill on September 15, 2026, after Democratic opposition and Republican defections, dealing a setback to the crypto industry. Two days later on September 17, the SEC approved an Innovation Exemption for tokenized stocks, bringing continuous trading closer to reality.
The announcement comes after reports in August that the agency was conducting an internal review into the event contract type.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued a joint request for public comment on potential opportunities to harmonize, modernize, and streamline data reporting requirements in their regulation of the…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking for public input on futures contracts for the computing power that undergirds the artificial intelligence sector as industry heavyweights move to embrace so-called compute as a tradable asset.
On August 31, 2026, prediction market operator Kalshi permanently banned former U.S. Representative George Santos for life after determining he engaged in barred trades and made misleading comments that influenced prices. The ban followed a CFTC investigation.
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