Kalshi seeks CFTC approval for margin trading on prediction markets
The prediction market platform filed to let users trade event contracts with borrowed funds, a move to attract institutional traders.
What to know
- Kalshi filed Tuesday with the CFTC to offer margin trading on event contracts, allowing leveraged positions on prediction markets for the first time under U.S. regulation.
- The platform plans to restrict margin access to longer-dated markets and exclude sports and cultural contracts, limiting it to institutional-quality participants with capital requirements.
- Margin trading is seen as essential to attract institutional traders to prediction markets, which have grown on retail trading but remain less accessible to big Wall Street players than traditional derivatives.
Kalshi Prediction market platformCommodity Futures Trading Commission Federal regulator
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“Offering margin trading, which allows a trader to borrow money to purchase more of an asset than the cash they put down, has been seen widely by institutions eyeing the prediction market space as a critical step needed for bigger players to participate.”
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first by Yahoo Finance, 1d ago · also PYMNTS, CoinGape, CNBC
4 more headlines
- Kalshi Seeks Margin Trading Approval as It Courts Institutional Traders PYMNTS · 1d ago
- Kalshi seeks CFTC approval for event contract margin trading crypto.news · 1d ago
- Kalshi Seeks CFTC Approval to Offer Margin Trading on Event Contracts CoinGape · 1d ago
- Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity CNBC · 1d ago
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4 outlets first by Quartz, 1d ago · also The Crypto Times, Seeking Alpha, Yahoo Finance · read ↗
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https://www. europesays.com/us/1078480/ Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, letting users buy with borrowed funds # BreakingNews :Markets # Business # BusinessNews # InvestmentStrategy # Markets # StockMarkets # UnitedStates # UnitedStates # US # WallStreet
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www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/k... Prediction market platform Kalshi filed on Tuesday with federal regulators to seek approval to offer leverage on event contracts. — Margin trading allows a trader to borrow money to purchase more of an asset than the cash they put down.
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If they turn to crime we prosecute them. I'm not proposing we expand welfare for these folks. They made their bed.
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Kalshi details margin strategy and safeguards — Kalshi stated it would restrict margin trading to longer-dated prediction markets and exclude sports, culture, and "mention" markets. The company plans to require marginable contracts to be accessible only to self-clearing members meeting capital requirements, and will increase capital requirements as contracts near expiration.
Also covered reported alongside — the timeline has no entry for these yet
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2 outlets Kalshi Asks Regulator To Let Traders Bet With Borrowed Money. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
first by Daily Caller, 1d ago · also The Daily Caller
What people are saying 2 voices from 1 site · best of 5 · verbatim
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How Stupid Can You Be? Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds | Semafor https://www. semafor.com/article/09/22/2026 /kalshi-to-allow-trading-on-borrowed-funds
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Kalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money.