This hearing is occurring at an historic time in the markets.
I do, respectfully. Though the litigants raised that issue, the court spoke to a different topic.
We did an interpretation to try to interpret it so that foreign regulators could have access...
The evidence points to the owner, Russ Wasendorf, taking the funds of customers right out of the bank and lying about it for years.
I think we are underfunded to oversee the futures industry that has grown five-fold since the 1990s.
If it would be helpful, I could just submit a written statement outlining our responses to each of the instances that were noted in the pres...
Detection of fraud, combating fraud in the futures industry, has been central to our mission for the last 30 years, and it remains so today.
I think that we will never protect that there will not be somebody trying to steal or lie or cheat.
I think that the system can work. I think it does need some enhancements.
I think we need to move the self-regulatory organizations and the CFTC a bit more to risk-based approach.
I think it is very concerning, and I share the public's view and Senator Harkin's and your view that that should have been looked at and pur...