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CFTC and USDA agree agricultural derivatives data sharing, with no new position limit announced

A signed US interagency memorandum targets surveillance, structural risk and hedging-market coordination; it does not itself rewrite exchange futures contracts.

7 Nov 2026News3 min read

Regulation & enforcement

CFTC and US agriculture department sign market-data cooperation agreement for futures oversight

The CFTC–USDA memorandum signed 4 November seeks better risk monitoring and information sharing across agricultural markets; it does not announce a new futures margin rule.

4 Nov 2026News3 min read