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A new legislative push in the U.S. aims to directly confront a potential blind spot in political ethics: insider trading on prediction markets. The proposed bill seeks to explicitly prohibit government officials from using non-public information to place bets on prediction market contracts, a practice that could allow ...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has moved to close a potential integrity loophole, signing an executive order that explicitly prohibits state public officials from using non-public information to trade on prediction markets. The order, signed on Friday, directly addresses the emerging risk of insider trading in market...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a direct prohibition against state officials using confidential government information to place bets on prediction markets. This move creates a new ethical and legal boundary for high-ranking personnel, explicitly targeting the potential for insider trading within the emergin...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order explicitly banning state employees and officials from using nonpublic information to trade on prediction markets. This move directly targets a gray area where government insiders could potentially profit from advance knowledge of policy decisions, election ...
Prediction markets are under intensifying political and regulatory fire. A group of Democratic lawmakers has launched a direct pressure campaign, demanding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Office of Government Ethics investigate potential insider trading vulnerabilities within these speculative p...
California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued an immediate executive order prohibiting state officials from using non-public government information to profit on prediction markets. The order, which also bans assisting others in such profiteering, draws a direct line against a form of insider trading within the public sec...
The White House has issued a formal warning to its staff, explicitly advising them against placing bets on prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi. This internal directive signals heightened scrutiny of the intersection between political events, sensitive information, and speculative financial activity. The m...
The Trump administration is facing persistent scrutiny over potential insider trading by individuals with close ties to the former president. While no charges have been filed against Donald Trump himself, the focus has shifted to his inner circle, where several key figures have been investigated for suspicious stock tr...
New York and Illinois have moved to bar government employees from trading on prediction markets using insider information, responding to a regulatory gap that traditional securities law does not clearly address. The bans—issued through ethics guidance in New York and executive directive in Illinois—target state workers...