CFTC’s Pham announces end to ‘regulation by enforcement,’ consolidates task forces
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Aaron Nicodemus2025-02-05T17:24:00
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) enforcement division will end the practice of “regulation by enforcement,” according to Acting Chair Caroline Pham.
Pham, a former compliance officer in the financial services industry who was named to lead the CFTC by President Donald Trump on Jan. 20, announced Tuesday the reorganization and consolidation of task forces under the CFTC’s Division of Enforcement. As a Republican, Pham has long been critical of what she called the agency’s practice of “regulation by enforcement” under the Democratic leadership.
After the CFTC fined Goldman Sachs $5.5 million in August 2023 for recordkeeping failures, Pham called the enforcement action “wrong” and “fundamentally unfair, unjust,” in a dissenting statement.
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