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The acting head of enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Brian Young, has now been tapped as the agency’s new director of enforcement.

Back on Jan. 22, the derivatives regulator announced a sweeping shakeup in its executive leadership, which included Young being named acting head of enforcement. On Friday, acting chair of the CFTC, Caroline Pham, named Young as the new permanent director of enforcement.

Young joined the agency in 2024 as director of its whistleblower office, after nearly 20 years at the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), which included stints in its anti-trust division and the fraud section of the DoJ’s criminal division.

At the DoJ, he was involved in the prosecution of traders in the LIBOR market manipulation scandal, among other white-collar crime cases.

Earlier this month, the CFTC announced a reorganization of its enforcement function, shrinking a list of task forces that targeted various priorities into just two — the Complex Fraud Task Force and the Retail Fraud and General Enforcement Task Force.

At the time, the CFTC said the the new structure will, “more efficiently utilize the CFTC’s resources to prevent fraud, manipulation and abuse and ensure market integrity,” while Pham said that it will also, “stop regulation by enforcement” at the agency.

“I am confident that under Brian’s leadership, the CFTC will expand and scale our resources to help more victims than ever before and ensure the integrity of our markets in the name of justice,” Pham said in a release.