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The CFTC asks who answers for an autonomous trader

Chairman Michael Selig has raised registration, liability and identification questions for agents trading on a user’s behalf. His remarks outline a regulatory debate, with shared models and transaction speed adding to the surveillance problem.

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A trading agent can receive an instruction, interpret a market and place an order before its customer has considered the consequences. The regulatory difficulty is deciding which part of that chain carries responsibility. At the CFTC’s latest forum, the questions became unusually explicit.

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