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CME CEO Warns CFTC Crypto Perpetual Futures Approvals Create Risk

CME Group CEO Terry Duffy warned that U.S. regulators are creating systemic risk by allowing regulated crypto perpetual futures and criticized the CFTC approval process. The remarks expose a policy split between incumbent derivatives venues and new CFTC-approved crypto perpetual products.

High impact🇺🇸 United StatesRegulationExchangeBTCETHCME GroupCFTCCoinbaseKalshi

APAC FINSTAB analysis

Although this is outside core APAC, it is relevant because global market-structure, enforcement, and stablecoin precedents often shape licensing expectations for APAC exchanges, issuers, custodians, and DeFi teams. Protocols/assets in scope: BTC, ETH. Named institutions or platforms: CME Group, CFTC, Coinbase, Kalshi. Teams should monitor the original source, map the change to licensing, custody, disclosure, and market-access obligations, and update their jurisdiction playbooks before the next compliance review.

Compliance read-through: map this event to entity licensing, market-access, custody, disclosure, token listing, and operational-risk obligations before expanding or marketing in the affected jurisdiction.

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