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House Oversight Opens Kalshi And Polymarket Insider Trading Probe

The U.S. House Oversight Committee launched an investigation into whether Kalshi and Polymarket users can trade prediction contracts using non-public information. The inquiry moves prediction-market scrutiny into market-integrity controls, surveillance and insider-information governance.

High impact🇺🇸 United StatesRegulationEnforcementExchangePolymarketKalshiHouse Oversight CommitteeJames Comer

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: Polymarket, Kalshi, House Oversight Committee, James Comer. 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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