Topic
Whether large out-of-step bets can move event-contract odds and how quickly arbitrage corrects them.
Turkish regulators ordered 131 funds from seven managers liquidated in September after they grew past $20bn and nearly 500,000 investors in three years. Two Tera Portfoy funds hold up to 48% of that money, so payouts depend largely on one manager's holdings.
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The Division of Market Oversight's September 22 advisory leaves mention markets legal, and it tells exchanges that a contract settling on one named person's conduct starts from a heightened manipulation risk they must answer contract by contract.
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The exchange's penalty came in at roughly double the CFTC's settlement over the same trades, which makes this the first case where a prediction-market venue priced its own integrity failure higher than its regulator did.
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The litigation over whether election wagers are illegal gambling will not conclude before votes are counted, which leaves the platforms booking their largest volume inside about 25 states whose statutes ban it.
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Delaware County amended its election worker oath to cover bets and wagers. It is the first concrete sign that liquid election markets manufacture insider-risk controls where none existed.
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