Webinars

In this webinar, partners from MoFo will discuss the proposed uses of payment stablecoins with respect to U.S. derivatives markets, the role of the GENIUS Act, and key policy and regulatory issues, and important legislative developments.

This webinar examines recent developments in the cross-border application of the Commodity Exchange Act and related regulatory regimes. Topics will include the CFTC’s efforts to rationalize derivatives definitions and cross-border regulatory categories, increasing clarity around the U.S. nexus that triggers U.S. requirements, the extraterritorial reach of the SEC’s U.S. Treasury clearing mandate, expectations for cross-border enforcement by the CFTC, SEC and DOJ, and pain points and practical implications for globally active market participants.

This webinar provides insights into trends in trading activity in the global listed derivatives markets for the first quarter of 2026, using data on volume and open interest to illustrate the impact of the conflict in the Middle East on commodity and financial futures and options.

This webinar, hosted by Akin, examines the CFTC’s enforcement activity during the first year of this administration and its likely priorities going forward. Akin presenters survey enforcement actions brought by the CFTC to date, as well as recent CFTC guidance. Presenters then discuss Chairman Selig’s views on enforcement and identify likely areas of focus for enforcement activity under his tenure.

FIA’s US position limits leads will revisit the CFTC’s federal position limits regime nearly five years after the final rule went into effect, joined by experts from CME, ICE and the CFTC. Refresh on the limits for futures and swaps, exemptions and aggregation and learn what the industry is still focused on for implementation.

On 6 February 2026, the regulatory technical standards specifying the operational conditions, the representativeness obligation and the reporting requirements related to the active account requirement (AAR) were published in Official Journal of the EU, providing the necessary legal certainty for compliance by in-scope firms.