Jonathan Flynn

Oct 22, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jonathan Cho |Jonathan Flynn |Geoffrey Goldman

On September 20, 2024, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) announced that it had approved final guidance (the “Final Guidance”) for designated contract markets (“DCMs”) that list voluntary carbon credit (“VCC”) derivative contracts (“VCC Derivatives”).[1] The Final Guidance is the latest development in a multi-year focus on the VCC market during which the CFTC called numerous convenings and took the unusual step of issuing a call for whistleblowers in relation to potential...