Regulation: An uneven regulatory playing field

CFTC and NFA are being inconsistent with the rules for futures and forex traders.

Back in 1974, when the US Congress established the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to regulate futures trading, there was no retail foreign exchange trading industry. Even as recently as 2000, when Congress enacted the Commodities Trading Modernization Act (CTMA), the question of who would oversee non-bank trading of FX, other than on the regulated exchanges, was not only unclear, it had probably not even been asked. A year later, Congress attempted to resolve the issue.

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