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CME Group to Sue CFTC Over Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Approval in Clash Over Dodd-Frank Classification
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CME Group plans to sue the CFTC over its approval of bitcoin perpetual futures, arguing the contracts are swaps, not futures, under Dodd-Frank.
Key facts
- Outgoing CME CEO Terrence Duffy made the announcement on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” saying the company would file litigation today
- The products can carry leverage of up to 50-to-1, magnifying both gains and losses
- CFTC Chair Michael Selig has defended both decisions as a way to bring a major segment of crypto derivatives activity under domestic regulation
- It’s time to approve regulated futures contracts that have no expiration date,” Selig told CNBC’s “Fast Money” earlier this week
Summary
The CME Group said that it plans to file a lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over the agency’s approval of crypto perpetual futures, setting up a direct legal confrontation between the world’s largest futures exchange operator and its own regulator. Outgoing CME CEO Terrence Duffy made the announcement on CNBC’s “Fast Money,” saying the company would file litigation today. At the center of the legal argument is a classification dispute under the Dodd-Frank Act. “Under the Dodd-Frank Act, it defines what a swap is and what a future is, and when there’s two parties exchanging payments to each other, that’s deemed a swap,” Duffy told CNBC.