The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that DJ Hennes will serve as director of the Market Participants Division. Chairman Michael S. Selig said Hennes brings experience advising financial services clients, including CFTC intermediaries, on governance, risk, compliance, and enforcement matters, and highlighted his work on crypto assets and prediction markets as relevant to the agency’s effort to update its rules and regulations for those areas. Hennes joins from KPMG LLP, where he was a managing director in the firm’s Financial Services Risk & Compliance Advisory Practice. Before that, he spent 15 years at Promontory Financial Group, most recently leading its Capital Markets Practice for the Americas.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission2026-05-18
Commodity Futures Trading Commission names DJ Hennes director of the Market Participants Division
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission appointed DJ Hennes as director of the Market Participants Division. Chairman Michael S. Selig cited Hennes’ governance, risk, compliance, enforcement, crypto asset, and prediction market experience as relevant to the agency’s rule updates in those areas. Hennes previously held senior risk and compliance roles at KPMG LLP and Promontory Financial Group.