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SegregationFutures commission merchants (FCMs) maintain customers' segregated funds to ensure any and all customers' accounts are not under-margined at any time. The Commodities Future Trading Commission's (CFTC) regulations require an FCM to segregate and separately account for customers' commodity funds.


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