Policy Event Β· Medium impact

Kalshi Adds Employment Screening For High Risk Markets

Kalshi will collect employment information from customers trading in markets scored as high risk for insider trading or market manipulation. The move tightens market-integrity controls for regulated prediction markets as CFTC and DOJ scrutiny of event-contract trading intensifies.

Medium impactπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United StatesRegulationAMLKalshiCFTCDOJ

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. Named institutions or platforms: Kalshi, CFTC, DOJ. 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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