CFTC’s FX prop trading case may spell more scrutiny ahead

The controversy surrounding My Forex Funds has reinforced the view that tighter regulation of foreign-exchange proprietary trading firms is inevitable.

FX prop trading firms have had a rough ride of late. Longstanding concerns around the number of traders who actually make any money have been heightened by the recent decision of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to charge Muhammad Murtuza Kazmi and his entities – including Traders Global and (collectively known as) My Forex Funds – with fraudulently soliciting customers to trade leveraged, margined or financed retail foreign exchange, and leveraged retail commodity transactions.

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