Since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sparingly pursued insider trading, even though the act allowed the commission to do so.

But recently the CFTC has created an insider trading task force whose purpose is to identify and charge those who have access to and abuse confidential market information. Members of the task force are based in the CFTC’s offices in Chicago, Kansas City, New York and Washington, D.C.