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791 documents for commodity futures trading commission act of 1974

- Privacy Act of 1974 System of Records Notice
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is providing notice that it is retiring one system of records notice, CFTC-7, Formal Employment Discrimination Complaint and Reasonable Accommodation Files, from its inventory of record systems because the relevant records are covered by existing government-wide system notices.
- Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 14507, March 12, 2012
- Notices
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Privacy Act of 1974 System of Records Notice
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is establishing two new systems of records under the Privacy Act of 1974: one, for the collection of information related to new procedures for accounting and determining financial responsibility for lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed CFTC property assigned to CFTC employees, volunteers, interns, contractors and consultants; and two, for the collection of information related to internal electronic collaboration tools which use Microsoft SharePoint, including the CFTC Intranet and social media tools within the Intranet.
- Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 2048, January 13, 2012
- Notices
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Philip Mcbride Johnson: Made Cftc Master of Its Own Domain
Philip McBride Johnson says, without a doubt, his greatest economic contribution to the history of futures was helping the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) win exclusive regulatory jurisdiction in commodities trading -- in which he played the leading role in securing by drafting key jurisdictional provisions of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 that made the CFTC the sole regulator of the US futures industry. As outside counsel to the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) he was directed to make every effort to assure that CFTC would be the only exclusive regulator of the futures markets and that its jurisdiction covered everything that is traded for future delivery: meaning, the definition of commodity had to be expanded from farm products to every conceivable obj...
- Futures; Chicago
- Vol. 36 Nbr. 14, October 2007

- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Curran, 456 U.S. 353 (1982)
... The Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), which regulates commodity futuures trading, was substantially amended by the Commodity Futurees Trading Commission Act of 1974. Among other things, the Commodity Fut... implementing regulations committed by any futures commission merchant, floor broker, commodity tradi...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
... Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974 (7 U.S.C. 4a). The Commission began operation in A...
- U.S. Government Manual
- Nbr. 2008, January 2008
- 17 CFR 146.1 - Purpose and scope.
...CHAPTER I: COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION. PART 146: RECORDS MAINTAINED O... Commission implementing the Privacy Act of 1974 (Pub. L. 93-579, 5 U.S.C. 552a). These rules apply...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges
- Commodity Futures Trading Comm'n v. Schor, 478 U.S. 833 (1986)
...833. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION v. SCHOR ET AL. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES C...In 1974, Congress "overhaul[ed]" the Act in order to insti...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Esfand Baragosh, A/K/a Esfandiar Baragosh, Defendant-Appellant, and Noble Wealth Data Information Services, Incorporated, A/K/a Noble Wealth, Incorporated, A/K/a Nobel Wealth, Incorporated; International Advanced Investment(S), Incorporated; Noble Wealth Development, Ltd.; Bull & Bears, Ltd., A/K/a Bull & Bears International Investment, Ltd.; Currex International Corporation, Defendants, v. Ebc Fulton Enterprises, Incorporated; Ralph S. Tyler, Parties in Interest., 278 F.3d 319 (4th Cir. 2002)
...L.Rev. at 1475. By 1974, Congress decided that the "growing importance of ...
- Federal Circuits
- Commodity Options
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (``Commission'' or ``CFTC'') is issuing a final rule to repeal and replace the Commission's current regulations concerning . The Commission is also issuing an interim final rule (with a request for additional comment) that incorporates a trade option exemption into the final rules for (added Sec. 32.3). For a transaction to be within the trade option exemption, the option, the offeror (seller), and the offeree (buyer), as applicable, must satisfy certain eligibility requirements, including that the option, if exercised, be physically settled, that the option seller meet certain eligibility requirements, and that the option buyer be a commercial user of the commodity underlying the option, and certain other regul...

... Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act of 1974.\10\ The Commission has primarily used its options...
- Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 25320, April 27, 2012
- Rules and Regulations
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- 31 CFR 103.123 - Customer identification programs for futures commission merchants and introducing brokers.
... transactions in contracts of sale of a commodity for future delivery, options on any contract of sa... Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. (2) Commission means the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission. (3) Commodity means any good, article,...
- Code of Federal Regulations - Title 31: Money and Finance: Treasury