CFTC adds 45 unregistered foreign entities to its RED List (2023)

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In June 2023 the CFTC announced that it had added 45 unregistered foreign entities, mostly forex, binary options and crypto trading websites, to its Registration Deficient List, bringing the list to more than 240 entries. This is a public warning list, not an enforcement action against named respondents, and no penalty or finding is involved.

The record

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Agency	CFTC
Release number	8716-23
Date filed	2023-06-12
Status	unknown
Criminal parallel	No
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What was ordered

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What is alleged to have happened

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission published this notice on June 12, 2023 as release 8716-23. It adds 45 foreign entities and their websites to the CFTC's Registration Deficient List, or RED List, which names firms that appear to act in a capacity requiring CFTC registration, such as trading binary options or forex, without being registered. The list is circulated to regulators, exchanges and industry bodies and complements the National Futures Association's registration data.

It is not an enforcement action. It names no respondents, makes no findings, imposes no penalty and alleges no manipulation scheme, so this library records no defendants, money or technique. An earlier version tagged it as a cash-versus-derivatives scheme; that tag has been removed. The record is kept, and not marked as verified, because it is a non-case notice.

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Timeline

2023-06-12 CFTC release published

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