The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced two senior staff appointments under Chairman Michael S. Selig. Donald Battle will join as chief data innovation officer, serving in the Division of Data and on the Innovation Task Force, while J Matthew Haws will join as senior advisor in the Office of the Chairman and as Chicago Regional Administrator. The appointments add data science, blockchain forensics and artificial intelligence expertise alongside senior derivatives regulatory and compliance experience. Battle joins from the Securities and Exchange Commission, where he most recently advised Commissioner Hester Peirce on the agency’s Crypto Task Force and was detailed from his role in the Enforcement Division’s Data Science Group. His background also includes work at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on virtual currency enforcement and Bank Secrecy Act anti-money laundering and counterterrorism obligations. Haws most recently served as senior legal counsel at Marex, advising its U.S. derivatives and capital markets businesses on regulatory risk, governance and compliance, and previously was a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP representing futures commission merchants, broker-dealers and swap dealers in enforcement and litigation matters.

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