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Former CFTC Enforcement Officials Comment on the CFTC’s New Enforcement Advisory

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Left to Right: Panelists David Meister, Douglas Yatter, Elizabeth Davis, Jennifer Arlen (moderator), and James McDonald (©Myaskovsky: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau)

On October 17, 2023, the NYU Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) hosted Ian McGinley, the Director of Enforcement for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to announce updated enforcement guidance to CFTC staff on penalties, monitors, and admissions. Director McGinley’s remarks (available here) were followed by a fireside chat and moderated Q&A with questions from the audience, and later by a moderated panel of former CFTC enforcement directors and senior enforcement counsel. The updated staff guidance is available here. In this post, the panelists from the event offer additional commentary on the guidance.

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