CFTC Annual Report on the Whistleblower Program and Customer Education Initiatives, Fiscal Year 2017

CFTC report to Congress for FY2017 (28 pp.; pp. 6-7 are scanned images with an OCR text layer): no awards paid, 2 Final Orders denying 2 applications; 2017 rule amendments (proposed Aug 2016, effective 31 Jul 2017; events and the 90-day filing rule); Preliminary Determinations over $45 million after the rules took effect; award history (four awards, ~$11 million; already recorded); 465 TCRs with Figure 1 FY2012-2017 and 110 non-whistleblower tips (61 e-mails/other + 49 SEC referrals); 30 NCAs; 74 award claims with Figure 2 FY2012-2017; outreach (30,000 e-mail subscribers, 111,000 page views: no indicator, not recorded); confidentiality reviews of document requests (new indicator); customer education (out of scope); fund table incl. $45.5 million contingent award claims (checks exactly); OIG memo (balance matches); auditors' report; financial statements. Figure values were read by OCR from the chart images (text layer lacks them). Percent increases (70%, 25%) are the source's own calculations and are not recorded. Not extracted, judged out of scope as fund accounting detail: Fund Balance with Treasury, investments, prepayments, payables, leave, software, overhead allocation ($918,000), budgetary resources, cash flow, comparatives. Rules restated from other sources are now recorded from this document too (decision 8).