{"id":18340,"date":"2026-05-22T19:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/house-committee-to-probe-prediction-market-insider-trading-on-kalshi-polymarket-cdc-gaming\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:12:39","slug":"house-committee-to-probe-prediction-market-insider-trading-on-kalshi-polymarket-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/house-committee-to-probe-prediction-market-insider-trading-on-kalshi-polymarket-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"House committee to probe prediction market insider trading on Kalshi, Polymarket &#8211; CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says the committee will be investigating potential insider trading on prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.<br \/>In an interview with CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box on Friday, Comer said that the committee was seeking information from both companies about how they monitor suspicious trading activity and prevent the misuse of nonpublic information.<br \/>\u201cThere\u2019s a concern now that members of Congress, members of the president\u2019s administration, any type of government employee, can use basic insider knowledge and make huge profits on anything government-related,\u201d he said.<br \/>According to Comer, letters have been sent to Kalshi and Polymarket to request documents used for identity verification procedures, geographic restrictions, and details of systems used to detect unusual trades.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clicky\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"\/\/in.getclicky.com\/101375624ns.gif\" \/><br \/><em>&copy; 2026 CDC Gaming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxPaGJGd3JncTdFRVVEd1JBdjBfSDlRQ0w1eTZQXzFCUm50WWxnb0swODhiVzdRTmQxN0lvQ1JWVG1vZEZMcE15YWFvQ1JGR1RJQVNhYXZoTlpPbmRhVXZ1UlA5akFQN0plcHdKOU9ZN3p6RVFhMG0xZV83ME5JaFdfclhuaDRqUDFkWGFKYnQ1V0dabHJRWWF1VmljQUpGVE5wTGxzaDVERHhMRnpp?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says the committee will be investigating potential insider trading on prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.In an interview with CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box on Friday, Comer said that the committee was seeking information from both companies about how they monitor suspicious trading activity and prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}