Government Database Search

Searches lists generated and maintained by the federal government, including Excluded Parties List System(EPLS), Food and Drug Administration Debarment(FDA), Specially Designated Nationals Terrorist Search(SDN), Denied Persons List(DPL), Department of Health and Human Services/Office of Inspector General (DHHS/OIG), Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA), Commodity Futures Trading Commission(CFTC), Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC), and GlobalTrack.

CFTC:

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Congress created the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in 1974 as an independent agency with the mandate to regulate commodity futures and options markets in the United States. The agency's mandate has been renewed and expanded several times since then, most recently by the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

The CFTC's mission is to protect market users and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to the sale of commodity and financial futures and options, and to foster open, competitive, and financially sound futures and option markets.

Identifies all registered FCMs IBs, CPOs and those registered CTAs who manage or exercise discretion over customer accounts must be Members of NFA in order to conduct futures business with the public.

Persons acting as APs of NFA Members must become BFA Associates.

Mandatory membership is the cornerstone of the NFA's regulatory structure, and effective industry wide self-regulation is not possible without it. NFA Bylaw 1101 very clearly prohibits the conduct of customer business with non-NFA Members.