https://www.scmp.com/rss/308554/feed The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was set up in 1974 to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the US. The independent agency's mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The US commodities market regulator has put Wall Street banks and other big traders on notice for a possible investigation of their metals warehousing businesses following years of complaints about inflated prices. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sent a letter to firms last week ordering them to preserve e-mails, documents and instant messages from the past three years, two sources who received the letters said. The notice amounted to a "warning shot" before a probable formal... https://www.scmp.com/business/commodities/article/1288276/cftc-puts-metals-warehouses-notice-possible-probe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/commodities/article/1288276/cftc-puts-metals-warehouses-notice-possible-probe?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:15:10 +0000