According to an official announcement, Caroline D. Pham, acting chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is launching a series of public roundtables to discuss changing trends and innovations in market structure, covering topics such as connected entities and conflicts of interest, prediction markets, and digital assets. Pham also reiterated last year's call for public engagement and for the CFTC to be more transparent about its policy approach to changes in derivatives markets.