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Proposed rule: Request for Information: Identifying Regulations To Facilitate Innovation and Competition to Financial Products and Services for Fintech Firms

Agencies: Commodity Futures Trading Commission — Pursuant to its obligations under Executive Order 14405, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is requesting information (this "RFI") from relevant market participants that will assist the Commission in identifying Commission regulations, guidance documents, orders, no-action letters, and other items that may unduly impede fintech firms from entering into partnerships with financial infrastructures and intermediaries regulated by the Commission (including, whether or not registered with the Commission, futures commission merchants ("FCMs"), introducing brokers ("IBs"), swap dealers ("SDs"), commodity pool operators ("CPOs"), commodity trading advisors ("CTAs"), designated contract markets ("DCMs"), swap execution facilitie…

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    Federal Register

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    https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/18/2026-12337/request-for-information-identifying-regulations-to-facilitate-innovation-and-competition-to
    Pursuant to its obligations under Executive Order 14405, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission") is requesting information (this "RFI") from relevant market participants that will assist the Commission in identifying Commission regulations, guidance documents, orders, no-action letters, and other items that may unduly impede fintech firms fr…

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Independent voices from different starting points, on the record about this kind of action. The framework grades behavior, not party — these quotes come from people who would say the same thing under any administration.

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Conservatism is supposed to be about institutions. If you are tearing the institutions down, you are not doing conservatism.

Adam Kinzinger

Former Republican congressman from Illinois; House Jan 6 Committee member.

Kinzinger has restated this principle across multiple post-2021 appearances. Public statements (consolidated)