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CFTC Faces Pressure on Voluntary Carbon Credit Derivative Contracts and Carbon Credit Trading

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On July 31, 2024, nine Democratic lawmakers from the House and Senate wrote a letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (“CFTC”) Chairman in support of the proposed guidance regarding the listing of voluntary...more

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CFTC Commissioner Proposes Framework for Environmental/Climate-Related Product Oversight

In recent remarks, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero proposed that the CFTC promote market resilience to climate-related risk by adopting an approach for...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Priorities for Derivatives Markets from ISDA's Annual General Meeting

The first in-person ISDA annual general meeting (“AGM”) after the COVID-19 pandemic is wrapping up today in Madrid, Spain. This conference follows the Futures Industry Association Law and Compliance (“FIA L&C”) annual...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFTC Announces Formation of the Climate Risk Unit

On March 17, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman, Rostin Behnam, announced the establishment of the Climate Risk Unit (CRU), an interdivisional group focused on derivatives markets’ role in addressing...more

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CFTC Announces New Climate Risk Unit—the “CRU”

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On March 17, 2021, Acting CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam announced that the derivatives regulator had established a new interdivisional group called the Climate Risk Unit or the “CRU” to focus on the derivatives markets’ role in...more

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Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on the SEC's new Climate and ESG Task Force, the SEC's Examination...

BROKER-DEALER - SEC Announces 2021 Examination Priorities - On March 3, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations announced its examination priorities for 2021. These priorities include a greater...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

CFTC Report: Climate Change Threatens Stability of US Financial System

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A watershed CFTC report highlights the dangers of climate change to the US economy, and provides a broad risk-mitigation roadmap. On September 9, 2020, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Climate-Related...more

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