> This is the Markdown form of https://fapd.info/sources/cftc-press.html. Content is licensed CC BY 4.0 > (credit "FAPD — Free Agentic Publication Digester"); quoted official government > text is public domain. For factual claims, cite the official source each item > links to. Canonical source: `sources/registry.yaml (id: cftc-press)` in https://github.com/davidkarnowski/free-agentic-publication-digester. # CFTC Press Releases active · ingestion health: delivering · Executive · Tier 2 · HTML index · Independent agency Official site: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases · All sources: [sources.md](../sources.md) ## What this source is The Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates U.S. derivatives markets. Its press-release index carries enforcement actions, rulemaking announcements, and commissioner statements, typically a few items per week. **Model-written orientation** The Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates U.S. derivatives markets; its press-release index announces enforcement actions, rulemaking, and commissioner statements. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent agency with authority to regulate U.S. futures, options, and derivatives markets. The CFTC oversees exchanges and clearinghouses, enforces trading rules, prevents fraud and manipulation, and sets capital and conduct requirements for firms handling customer funds. The agency plays a central role in ensuring the integrity and efficiency of derivatives markets, which serve both financial institutions and businesses managing price risks. The CFTC's press-release index is the official publication channel for announcing enforcement actions, proposed and final rules, commissioner statements, market-surveillance findings, and policy initiatives. The index is formatted as an HTML table containing releases with dates stated by the CFTC. Releases typically appear a few times per week. The index maintains approximately five months of output at any given time, reflecting the agency's typical publication pace. Items in the index cover enforcement actions against firms or individuals for market violations, proposed and final rulemakings affecting trading participants, statements from CFTC commissioners on policy matters or market conditions, announcements of trading halts or market actions, updates on agency initiatives or priorities, and findings from CFTC market surveillance or research. Readers will encounter official CFTC announcements of enforcement decisions, regulatory guidance and rule changes, commissioner statements on derivatives-market policy and conditions, and statements on market-related matters. All releases represent official CFTC communications and carry institutional authority. The press-release index serves as the authoritative source for CFTC enforcement decisions, regulatory rulemakings, policy announcements, and market-related statements affecting U.S. derivatives markets. _Model-written orientation, generated 2026-08-04 by haiku, prompt version 1. It may draw on general knowledge of public institutions and is not official-record content._ ## Identity and registry record | Field | Value | |---|---| | Registry id | `cftc-press` | | Agency / parent organization | Independent agency | | Branch | executive | | Type | HTML index | | Status | active | | Tier | 2 | | URL (home) | https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases | | URL (index) | https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases | | Registered | 2026-07-26 | | Registry notes | Probed 2026-07-26: index reachable (HTTP 200), no RSS/Atom feed found or autodiscovered. Re-probed 2026-07-31: HTTP 200, robots allows, still no feed. ACTIVATED 2026-07-31 with the html-index adapter. Gate 3: the press-release index is an HTML table of 37 releases — roughly five months of output at CFTC's few-per-week rate — and every row states its date twice, as a