The Dodd-Frank Act created whistleblower programs at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Kristin Amerling, President of Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund (TAF-EF), Interviews Vincente Martinez, Director of the Whistleblower Office at the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CTFC)

In the two years since U.S. market regulators launched programs to encourage whistleblowers to report corporate wrongdoers, all of five people have been rewarded,

The 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform bill established the closely-watched whistleblower program run by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This year could be a big one for enforcement efforts by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for a good reason: Whistleblowers.

The number of tips alleging Commodity Exchange Act violations that were submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's nascent whistle-blower program has significantly increased since October,

This is a sort of limbo period for the CFTC, and, by extension, the markets in general. No commission quorum means no big decisions.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Tuesday that it paid an anonymous whistleblower $240,000 for a tip that panned out.

The acting chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said Tuesday the agency will make its first award to a whistleblower under the program created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.

On May 19, 2014, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued its first award under the CFTC’s whistleblower award program.[1]