Caroline D. Pham, the acting chairman for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for most of 2025, stepped down from her post last month to make way for Michael Selig, who became the 16th chairman of the CFTC on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. While Selig brings with him a rather full agenda focused on digital… Read More >>
New CFTC Chair Wants ‘Common Sense’ Crypto Regs
Michael Selig took the helm as the 16th chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, bringing with him an agenda focused on digital assets and stripping back over-reaching regulation. Nominated by President Donald Trump in late October and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in mid-December, Selig’s appointment suggests the… Read More >>
Regulators Want the U.S. to Rule Crypto Markets
The highly touted “Crypto Week” of July 14-18 — when Congress mulled over major legislation to kick-start the digital asset era for U.S. markets — was just the start of the Trump team’s push to have the United States dominate global crypto markets. Toward the end of last month, “The President’s Working Group on Digital… Read More >>
Digital Assets Will Spur Ops & Compliance Overhauls
Securities firms participating in cryptocurrencies, tokenization, decentralized finance (DeFi) systems, and other digital asset realms will have to rely less on external regulatory guardrails and more on their own proactive efforts as the Trump administration charts a new course for the regulation of digital asset environments. The marching orders for this rapid reversal of Biden-era… Read More >>
CME Completes First Transaction via Bitcoin Friday Futures
Derivatives exchanges company, CME Group, has completed its first transaction via its “new financially settled options on Bitcoin Friday futures” between Cumberland DRW and Galaxy and cleared by Marex, officials say. The block trade took place on Sunday, February 23. The CME has launched financially settled options on Bitcoin Friday futures to complement its existing… Read More >>
