CFTC Annual Report on the Whistleblower Program and Customer Education Initiatives, Fiscal Year 2018

CFTC report to Congress for FY2018 (31 pp.): five awards announced, >$75 million, incl. ~$30 million record and first award to a foreign whistleblower (cases and event already recorded); 31 Final Orders on 55 applications (5 granted, 50 denied of which 36 via the streamlined process), 3 withdrawn; nine awards ~$87 million since inception (recorded); 760 TCRs with Figure 1 FY2012-2018 and 130 non-whistleblower tips (61 + 69 SEC referrals); 31 NCAs; 120 award claims with Figure 2; outreach (13 conferences, 44,000 e-mail subscribers, 156,000 page views: no indicator, not recorded); confidentiality reviews; customer education (virtual currency, binary options; out of scope except ~200 tips after one advisory); fund table (checks exactly, incl. $4,913,875 pending claims); OIG memo (matches); auditors' report; financial statements incl. Note 5 (pending award liabilities, 11 more claims under review, possible payments $0-$50,620,788). Figure values printed in the text layer; FY2018 values already recorded from the text. Not extracted, judged out of scope as fund accounting detail: change in accounting principle for award liabilities (presentation only), Fund Balance with Treasury, investments, payables, leave, software, overhead ($1,092,000), budgetary resources, cash flow, comparatives.