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U.S. CFTC Acting Chairman: Enforcement Division Restructured, Refocused on Combating Fraud

2025.02.05 09:32:08

On February 5th, as per CoinDesk, Caroline Pham, who is the Acting Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), declared that the regulatory agency has restructured its enforcement division in order to "recenter" its efforts on combating fraud and "shift away from regulation achieved solely through enforcement."
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