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Flash Boys and the speed of lies

Brad Katsuyama, Bloomberg
August 5, 2014
After the book, our stock market, IEX Group Inc., became a topic of discussion -- some positive, some negative, some true and some false. Fair enough. If you're in the spotlight and doing something different, you should take the heat along with the light.

Chilton says proposed CFTC budget inadequate

Press Release
March 5, 2014
"The CFTC was given a large swath of the swaps market oversight and regulation--tens of trillions of dollars in formerly dark market trading."

Gensler/Chilton are not heroes to industry

Daniel P. Collins
December 22, 2013
Somehow Messrs.’ Gary Gensler and Bart Chilton have been given hero status by those general and left leaning media outlets. That only proves that those outlets have never attempted to cultivate sources within the Futures and derivatives space.

CFTC issues comparability determinations for six overseas jurisdictions

Press Release
December 21, 2013
Australia, Canada, the E.U., Hong Kong, Japan and Switzerland are deemed comparable with respect to aspects of Dodd-Frank.

Stockholm Syndrome and precious metals price discovery

Jeffrey Lewis
November 12, 2013
The level of fraud in the financial system with utter lack of prosecution or accountability, combined with the ongoing love affair between the largest offenders and collective mainstream, results in financial media being a victim of the so-called Stockholm syndrome.

Dodd-Frank derivatives momentum threatened by vacancies on CFTC

Silla Brush, Bloomberg
November 7, 2013
The derivatives regulator may dwindle to just two voting commissioners and struggle to approve new rules.

Regulator Chilton says ‘at last’ in announcing he’ll leave CFTC

Dave Michaels, Bloomberg
November 5, 2013
Bart Chilton, a U.S. regulator known for using pop music lyrics to make points about the impact of derivatives and commodity trading on consumers, said he will step down from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

CFTC’s Chilton seeking review of CME wash-trade restrictions

Silla Brush, Bloomberg
June 24, 2013
A CFTC commissioner says regulators should double check that the CME's wash-trade plan is sufficient.

High-frequency firms’ wash trades need review, Chilton says

Silla Brush
March 18, 2013
CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton says high-frequency wash trades distort liquidity and prices.