{"id":4770,"date":"2026-06-18T07:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/18\/cme-group-declares-legal-war-on-cftc-over-controversial-perpetual-futures-approval\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:29:54","slug":"cme-group-declares-legal-war-on-cftc-over-controversial-perpetual-futures-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/06\/18\/cme-group-declares-legal-war-on-cftc-over-controversial-perpetual-futures-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"CME Group Declares Legal War on CFTC Over Controversial Perpetual Futures Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

CME Group, under the leadership of outgoing CEO Terrence Duffy, is preparing to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over its recent approval of perpetual futures, arguing these instruments should be classified as ‘swaps’ under the Dodd-Frank Act.<\/p>\n

This legal challenge arises after the CFTC allowed platforms like Kalshi to offer these non-expiring crypto derivatives in the U.S. market, a decision CME believes necessitates different regulatory oversight due to their inherent nature and CME’s existing benchmark licensing agreements.<\/p>\n

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CME Group, under the leadership of outgoing CEO Terrence Duffy, is preparing to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over its recent approval of perpetual futures, arguing these instruments should be classified as ‘swaps’ under the Dodd-Frank Act. This legal challenge arises after the CFTC allowed platforms like Kalshi to offer these non-expiring crypto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108323610-17817330801781733077-46608651824-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1781733079&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-technology","rifnote_country-u-s","rifnote_executive-michael-selig","rifnote_executive-terrence-duffy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108323610-17817330801781733077-46608651824-1080pnbcnews.jpg?v=1781733079&w=750&h=422&vtcrop=y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}