Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Investment Executive Canada's news source for financial professionals Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:29:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://old.investmentexecutive.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/01/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Investment Executive 32 32 CFTC asserts oversight of prediction markets https://old.investmentexecutive.com/news/cftc-asserts-oversight-of-prediction-markets/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:29:18 +0000 https://www.investmentexecutive.com/?p=537452 In series of legal filings, regulator claims exclusive jurisdiction

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