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CME sues US CFTC over letting Kalshi, Coinbase offer perpetual futures
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- CME sues US CFTC over letting Kalshi, Coinbase offer perpetual futures By Jonathan Stempel Fri, June 19, 2026 at 12:48 AM GMT+7 2 min read CME KLSH.PVT BTC-USD By Jonathan Stempel
- June 18 (Reuters) - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange sued the U.S.
- CFTC said the same day it would not object if Coinbase allowed U.S. investors access to its foreign perpetual futures pegged to cryptocurrencies.
CME sues US CFTC over letting Kalshi, Coinbase offer perpetual futures By Jonathan Stempel Fri, June 19, 2026 at 12:48 AM GMT+7 2 min read CME KLSH.PVT BTC-USD By Jonathan Stempel
June 18 (Reuters) - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange sued the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and its chairman, Michael Selig, on Thursday, challenging a recent decision to let the prediction markets platform Kalshi and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase list perpetual futures.
CME, a unit of CME Group, said the contracts are swaps under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms, a view it said the CFTC had previously accepted, and that the regulator acted arbitrarily and capriciously in approving them as futures.
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