Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, letting users buy with borrowed funds
Prediction market platform Kalshi filed on Tuesday with federal regulators to seek approval to offer leverage on event contracts, a prevalent practice already on Wall Street for stocks and futures. The filing with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission the federal regulator for event contracts comes from Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house. It's the latest move by the company as prediction markets increasingly seek to attract institutional liquidity to event contract exchanges. Kalshi already provides leverage on its perpetual futures contracts, though has yet to receive the same approval to do so for its prediction markets. 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, which are used to the practice on traditional equities and derivatives. Currently, al...
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