US CFTC will focus on insider trading in prediction markets among its priorities

NEW YORK, March 31 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission will focus on policing market misconduct such as insider trading in prediction markets and market manipulation in energy markets, the agency's new enforcement director said on Tuesday.

The CFTC will focus on a handful of core enforcement areas, also including market abuse such as spoofing, and willful violations of laws designed to prevent money laundering, enforcement director David Miller said in his first public remarks since joining the agency earlier this month.

"We are not asleep at the switch," he said at an event at New York University law school.