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  • First Cash-Settled Bitcoin Futures Contract Begins Trading on CFTC-Overseen Exchange; Industry Organization Bemoans Self-Certification Process
  • SEC Obtains Emergency Asset Freeze to Stop Purportedly Fraudulent Initial Coin Offering
  • CME Group Exchanges Receive CFTC Report Card on Enforcement Program; Grades "Generally Adequate" But Use of Some Warning Letters Criticized
  • ICE Futures U.S. Charges Introducing Broker and Employees With Impermissibly Disclosing Customer Order Information and Executing Block Trades Contrary to Requirements