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CFTC recommends tokenized non-cash collateral, blockchain use

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Move aims to provide framework for how market participants can apply existing policies and procedures to use DLT for non-cash collateral in line with margin requirements.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), overseen by Commissioner Caroline Pham, recently advanced a recommendation to expand the use of non-cash collateral through the use of distributed ledger technology.

The recommendation was approved without objection, marking the fourteenth GMAC recommendation advanced to the CFTC in