{"id":609246,"date":"2026-06-04T04:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cftc-follows-sec-in-scrapping-no-deny-policy-for-settlements\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:52:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:52:43","slug":"cftc-follows-sec-in-scrapping-no-deny-policy-for-settlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/cftc-follows-sec-in-scrapping-no-deny-policy-for-settlements\/","title":{"rendered":"CFTC follows SEC in scrapping \u2018no-deny\u2019 policy for settlements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy1pbWFnZXMuY3RtZWRpYS5pby9tZWRpYS9hcnRpY2xlLWNvdmVycy9oaS1zZWMtY2Z0Yy1ldmVudC1vdmVydmlldy5qcGVn.jpeg\" alt=\"CFTC follows SEC in scrapping \u2018no-deny\u2019 policy for settlements\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CFTC Chairman Mike Selig says the rescission of its \u201cno-deny\u201d policy means it now has more flexibility when settling enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<p>The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has rescinded a long-standing policy that prevented it from accepting a lawsuit settlement if the defendant denied the agency\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The CFTC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/9247-26\">said<\/a> on Wednesday that it scrapped the policy, first adopted in 1998, because it \u201cmay have created an incorrect impression that the Commission is trying to shield itself from criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The language was similar to that provided by the US Securities and Exchange Commission when it <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/sec-rescinds-gag-rule-when-settling-enforcement-actions\">rescinded a similar policy<\/a> in May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/cftc-follows-sec-in-scrapping-no-deny-rule-for-settlements\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFTC Chairman Mike Selig says the rescission of its \u201cno-deny\u201d policy means it now has more flexibility when settling enforcement actions. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has rescinded a long-standing policy that prevented it from accepting a lawsuit settlement if the defendant denied the agency\u2019s allegations. The CFTC said on Wednesday that it scrapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-609246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}