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Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
A federal agency, established in 1974, that regulates and supervises the trading of commodity futures and commodity options. Additional regulation is effected by the exchanges on which the contracts are traded. Compare National Futures Association (NFA).

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To be sure, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has recently proposed issuing regulatory exemptions that would reduce legal uncertainty about the enforceability of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions and would conform the regulation of futures exchanges to the realities of today's marketplace.
The HedgeStreet Exchange certified these contracts with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the first contracts, for Wal-Mart Inc.
nbsp;(DCM) and a registered derivatives clearing organization (DCO), HedgeStreet is subject to regulatory oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
 
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