The CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight issued a Sept. 22 staff advisory warning that contracts linked to a specific person’s statements, appearances or interactions face heightened manipulation risks. The nonbinding document asks exchanges to explain, for each contract, whether outcome decision-makers have independent duties, could face pressure, whether results can be externally verified and whether monitoring is suited to the risk. The CFTC did not prohibit such markets. It also disclosed that a White House teleprompter operator used advance access to a speech script to trade related contracts and made $107,500. Kalshi later listed similar markets and said it had responded to earlier discussions with the CFTC.