The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has recently unveiled its 2023 Annual Report highlighting the significant achievements of the Whistleblower Program and Customer Education Initiatives. Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero, a former Inspector General, expressed strong support for the program on October 31, 2023, acknowledging the crucial role whistleblowers play in bolstering CFTC investigations and protecting the integrity of financial markets.
Romero appreciated the “outsized results” achieved by the program, which has cumulatively awarded almost $350 million to whistleblowers, facilitating over $3 billion in enforcement sanctions through associated cases. This year alone, the program awarded $16 million, with two whistleblowers receiving more than $15 million for their instrumental assistance in separate successful enforcement cases.
Whistleblowers: The Linchpin of CFTC Investigations
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