Digital securities trading infrastructure provider tZERO announced that its tZERO DCM has registered as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), authorizing it to operate a regulated derivatives exchange. Earlier, another tZERO subsidiary registered as a Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) on October 16. tZERO now holds regulatory authorizations for both derivatives trading and clearing, and plans to provide related infrastructure services to financial institutions and other market participants.