CFTC is doing its best to protect US traders from the foreign companies that are soliciting American traders without obtaining a proper registration. Today, the US regulatory watchdog launched the RED List of Forex/binary brokers on its SmartCheck platform.
The list consists of 19 companies as of today. The majority of them (15) are various binary brokers. Three are Forex brokers:
Tim Massad, the current Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said that the aim of the list is protect traders from the ‘bad actors’. If a company is not registered, there is not much CFTC or NFA can do with the company in case it turns scam on its customers. On the other hand, complying to US regulatory rules is very difficult and results in trading conditions that can be seen as less desirable by many Forex traders.
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