On July 16, 2019, three prominent whistleblower law regulators
spoke at PLI's Corporate Whistleblowing in 2019, which was
co-chaired by Orrick partners Mike Delikat and Renee Phillips. With
the standard disclaimer that their comments and opinions were their
own and not the official comments of their respective agencies,
each spoke about their agencies' whistleblower program's
current progress, challenges, and priorities.
CFTC's Whistleblower Office
(https://www.whistleblower.gov/overview)
The Director of the CFTC's Whistleblower Office, Christopher
Ehrman, spoke first about some emerging issues for the CFTC in
2019. In the coming years, Ehrman said he hopes to see the CFTC
move more into analytics and set up an office of market
intelligence. Additionally, while the CFTC is already the primary
regulator for the derivatives market in the United States, Ehrman
shared that "virtual currency is a big thing and will only get
bigger." The CFTC currently has anti-fraud
