According to CoinMeta, the predictive market brokerage firm River Markets, whose associated company is River Finance LLC, has registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a futures commission merchant and joined the National Futures Association (NFA), obtaining permission to hold customer accounts and handle customer funds. Founded in May of this year, the company has already executed over 250 million contracts for clients such as hedge funds and proprietary trading firms, and has completed a seed round of financing amounting to 8.5 million US dollars.