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forex regulations

New Forex Regulations: Overview of Public Comments

February 23, 2010

Leverage, Inaccessibility for Smaller Traders, and Offshore Threat are Focus of Public Comments
As we’ve discussed in related posts, the CFTC has proposed rules regulating the off-exchange spot forex industry (see Retail FOREX Registration Regulations Proposed).  The CFTC has requested comments from the public and there are currently about 100 public comments on CFTC’s website written in response [...]

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Discussion with CFTC Regarding Forex Registration

April 10, 2009

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No New Information on Forex Regulations
I have been getting more and more questions regarding forex registration and unfortunately I have not had much to say because there has been little information coming from the CFTC.  The NFA has done a good job of anticipating what those rules will generally look like, but the NFA (like [...]

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NFA Continues to Pursue Forex Regulation for Current Forex Dealer Members

December 5, 2008

Two new releases indicate that the NFA is serious about regulating the off-exchange foreign currency markets
On our sister website, www.forexlawblog.com, we have detailed the continued regulatory actions by the NFA with regard to the current regulation of the off-exchange forex markets.  The two notices, described in further detail below, apply to Forex Dealer Member and [...]

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