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Futuur Uses Prediction Markets To Forecast The Brazilian Elections, And Adds Conditional Markets To Its Offering -The Crowd-Powered Forecasting Platform Allows Users To Trade On The Outcome Of Senate, Gubernatorial, And Presidential Races, As Well As On Conditional Markets Predicting The Potential Impact Of Candidates On Indicators Like GDP, Unemployment And Inflation

Date 27/08/2022

Futuur launched today a set of prediction markets forecasting the results of each and every race in Brazil’s presidential, gubernatorial, and senate elections, which are scheduled to take place in October. The forecasts are the result of a wisdom-of-the-crowd-based operation that gathers information from its user base in the form of trades and turns it into probabilities of occurrence for each possible outcome in a market.
Dissenting Statement Of CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham Regarding The Review And Stay Of KalshiEX LLC’s Political Event Contracts

Date 27/08/2022

I respectfully dissent from the Commission’s decision pursuant to CFTC Rule 40.11 to require a review and impose a stay of up to 90 days on KalshiEX LLC’s (Kalshi) Congressional control political event contracts, because Rule 40.11 does not apply to the contracts and because the appropriate process is to review the contracts under Rule 40.3.
CFTC Announces Review And Public Comment Period Of KalshiEx Proposed Congressional Control Contracts Under CFTC Regulation 40.11

Date 27/08/2022

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the beginning of a review of KalshiEX, LLC’s (KalshiEx) proposed contracts on which political party will be in control of each chamber of the U.S. Congress (Congressional Control Contracts) under CFTC Regulation 40.11(c). KalshiEX, a designated contract market, voluntarily submitted the Congressional Control Contracts for CFTC review.
Canadian Securities Regulators Issue Warning About Suspicious E-Mails

Date 26/08/2022

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has been monitoring its systems for unusual activities after several market participants received e-mails that purport to come from CSA members’ staff.
Nadex Delists Germany 40 Variable Payout And Binary Contracts

Date 26/08/2022

Pursuant to Section 5c(c)(1) of the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (“Act”), and Section 40.6(a) of the regulations promulgated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “Commission”) under the Act (the “Regulations”), North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (“Nadex”, the “Exchange”), Nadex submitted notice to the Commission that Nadex will be delisting all of its Germany 40 Variable Payout and Binary Contracts, effective as of the close of business on Friday, August 26, 2022.

Big Win For Whistleblowers At The SEC - Commission Approves Rule Changes To Enhance Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program

Date 26/08/2022

Today the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted two amendments to the rules of its highly successful whistleblower program. The amendments, which were widely supported by whistleblower advocates, allow the agency to better award whistleblowers who voluntarily provide the agency with original information that leads to successful enforcement actions.
CFTC Commitments Of Traders Reports Update

Date 26/08/2022

The current reports for the week of August 23, 2022 are now available.
SEC Issues First Fee Rate Advisory For Fiscal Year 2023

Date 26/08/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the Commission will increase from $92.70 per million dollars to $110.20 per million dollars, effective Oct. 1. The new fee rate will be applicable to the registration of securities under Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, the repurchase of securities under Section 13(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and proxy solicitations and statements in corporate control transactions under Section 14(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Readout: US Deputy Secretary Of The Treasury Wally Adeyemo’s Travel To New Delhi

Date 26/08/2022

On August 26, Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo met with government officials in New Delhi, India, including Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister PK Mishra, Ministry of Finance Secretary Ajay Seth, Ministry of External Affairs Secretary Vijay Kwatra, and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary Pankaj Jain.
On The Consequences Of An Inconsequential Rulemaking: Statement Regarding Amendments To Whistleblower Program Rules, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, Aug. 26, 2022

Date 26/08/2022

I did not support the proposal to amend the Commission’s whistleblower rules, and cannot support the amendments adopted today. The Commission’s whistleblower program is successful, increasingly so in recent years. Today’s amendments, although themselves inconsequential and unlikely to inhibit that success, nonetheless carry harmful consequences both for the whistleblower program and for the Commission’s rulemaking processes.