Whistleblower Award Determination

What it does

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is proposing for public comment to amend its rules implementing a section of the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA"). The relevant section provides, among other things, that the Commission shall pay an award--under regulations prescribed by the Commission and subject to certain limitations--to eligible whistleblowers who voluntarily provide the Commission with original information about a violation of the CEA, or regulations thereunder, that leads to the successful enforcement of a covered judicial or administrative action, or a related action. The Commission expects the proposed substantive amendment, which is modeled on a similar provision in the Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC's") regulations, to increase the efficiency, transparency, and predictability of whistleblower claims processing, thereby protecting and enhancing the program's effectiveness in incentivizing whistleblowers to report. The Commission is also incorporating technical corrections to the whistleblower rules to update regulatory references to reflect the Whistleblower Office's ("WBO's") move in 2025, consistent with its adjudicatory functions, to the Office of the General Counsel.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

1 part of Title 17 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

17 CFR 165

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3038-AF74 since Jan. 1, 2025.

Since then:

• Sept. 16, 2026 Final rule. Whistleblower Award Determination

What happens next and when

Comments must be received by July 15, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket CFTC-2026-1222 on Regulations.gov
• Title 17 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register