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CFTC Innovation Task Force will hold Oct. 28 forum on AI and agentic trading

The first Frontier Forum session will cover machine intelligence's effect on price discovery and risk management, and how traders' AI agents fit under CFTC rules.

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  • The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Innovation Task Force will hold its first "Frontier Forum" on Oct. 28, with an agenda on artificial intelligence in derivatives markets released Tuesday, CoinDesk reported.

  • The agenda covers how derivatives markets respond to machine intelligence, its effect on price discovery and risk management, and how traders' own AI agents may operate under CFTC regulations.

  • The agenda as reported frames agentic trading as a discussion topic, not a proposed rule.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Innovation Task Force will hold its first "Frontier Forum" on Oct. 28, with an agenda on artificial intelligence in derivatives markets released Tuesday, CoinDesk reported.

The agenda covers how derivatives markets respond to machine intelligence, its effect on price discovery and risk management, and how traders' own AI agents may operate under CFTC regulations.

The event will hear from leaders of firms including Ornn, Architect and Liquid Compute, according to CoinDesk. Chairman Mike Selig said in a statement that "super intelligence is poised to transform our financial markets."

The agenda as reported frames agentic trading as a discussion topic, not a proposed rule.

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