The CFTC starts crackdown on the growing insider problem in prediction markets

On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surveillance on event contracts. Simultaneously, the regulator opened a 45-day rulemaking process that asks pointed questions about inside information, manipulation, and whether some markets serve the public interest at all. Two weeks earlier, the agency had spotlighted two The post The CFTC starts crackdown on the growing insider problem in prediction markets appeared first on CryptoSlate.