Commodities

Shocking the markets: Excessive speculation and climate change

On May 13, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) issued a warning to the trading platforms, clearing organizations (the back office processing of trades) and futures cont

Comment to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Position Limits

Proposed Rule: Position Limits for Derivatives (PR 2020) RIN 3038–AD99    Submitted electronically to CFTC Comments Portal: https://comments.cftc.gov    

Letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Markets Risk Advisory Committee's Climate Related Market Risk Subcommittee

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) appreciates the opportunity to respond to the issues identified in the Notice. IATP first wrote on June 19, 2019 to the Commission on these issues. We are responding to four of five topics outlined in the Notice, plus our “Urgency and ambition” topic. IATP hopes that these brief comments will help the Subcommittee prepare its report for MRAC. We look forward to reading the report and to commenting on the CFTC’s proposals for implementing the “actionable materials” recommended by MRAC following its review of the report.

Amplifying or absorbing shocks in financial markets?

*Banner image taken September 2008. 

Letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Cross-Border Application of the Registration Thresholds and Certain Requirements Applicable to Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants

Download to read the full letter Secretary of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

Market Risk Advisory Committee meeting agenda item on Climate Related Financial Risk

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Regulating agricultural futures markets to benefit producers, processors and consumers

How difficult can it be to trade contracts based on the cash value of wheat, crude oil, unroasted coffee beans and other raw materials? Sure, there are future risks, physical and financial, but they can be usually managed with the help of trading exchanges, standardized data and lightning-fast computer technology.

The costs of agricultural export dumping for farmers and rural communities

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Doing "a big number" on commodity market regulation

Then-candidate Donald Trump campaigned as the scourge of Wall Street. But now-President Trump has promised to “do a big number” on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act. Most media coverage of the promised “big number” has focused on the gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the pushing through of legislation that U.S.

IATP Comment on De Minimis Exception to the Swap Dealer Definition

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM"): De Minimis Exception to the Swap Dealer Definition1