U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
A career civil servant and government executive, Mr. McGonagle has spent the last 23 years with the CFTC, including in a number of senior roles. He has led the Division of Enforcement on an acting basis on two other occasions—from October to December 2010 and February to April 2017—and has also led the Division of Market Oversight on two occasions—from October 2013 to January 2017 and on an acting basis from August to September 2019.
While serving as Acting Director of the Division of Market Oversight in 2019, Mr. McGonagle oversaw a number of key rulemakings, and provided guidance and direction to the division’s branches in the handling of time sensitive and complex market issues. While leading the division from 2013 to 2017, Mr. McGonagle oversaw market surveillance, compliance examination, registration and rule review, and the contract market product review programs over trading facilities and swap data repositories. He also oversaw several rulemakings, testified twice before Senate panels, and led the transition of swaps trading to a regulated market, including the first ever permanent registration of SEFs.
From 2002 to 2013, he served as the Senior Deputy Director of the Division of Enforcement where he opened the first regulatory investigation into LIBOR and other global benchmark interest rates and thereafter supervised the CFTC’s landmark enforcement cases for manipulative conduct and false reporting concerning those benchmarks.
Mr. McGonagle joined the agency as a staff attorney in 1997 after working 11years in private practice.
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U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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The mission of the CFTC 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. In pursuit of its mission, the CFTC investigates and prosecutes commodities fraud, including foreign currency schemes, energy manipulation and hedge fund fraud, and works with other federal and state agencies to bring criminal and other actions. The CFTC also engages in public education and outreach by participating in consumer groups and issuing Consumer Advisories and other educational materials.