Tensions high after employees learn agency contracted to spend nearly half a million dollars on labor lawyers.

Former JPMorgan executive who helped develop CDS is named CEO of bitcoin-settlement business.

Former JPMorgan executive who helped develop CDS is named CEO of bitcoin-settlement business.

Chairman Massad expects to finalize a rule by midyear 2015, with a 'slight delay' in the implementation timetable.

Chairman Massad expects to finalize a rule by midyear 2015, with a 'slight delay' in the implementation timetable.

CFTC is weighing whether to restrict FX traders' exposures to foreign clients after FXCM losses.

CFTC is weighing whether to restrict FX traders' exposures to foreign clients after FXCM losses.

Big banks' December victory on swaps rules turned Dodd-Frank into a lightning rod, making additional changes to the law more difficult.