The Fixed Income Clearing Corporation proposed rule amendments that are intended to make effective the SEC's recent adoption of requirements that members of a central clearing organization for U.S. government securities clear certain repo and cash market trades in U.S. governments.
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NFA questioned the "proposed methodology" of a CFTC proposal that would apply to direct clearing of transactions by customers not intermediated through an FCM.
CFTC Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger asserted that the Basel III Endgame Proposal, if adopted, would have a significant negative impact on derivatives markets.
An investment adviser was fined for failing to adequately investigate concerns raised about the miscalculation of "risk share" returns used by a Pennsylvania public pension plan, and for material misstatements and omissions about the reasons for the miscalculation.
U.S. Representatives French Hill (R-AR), David Scott (D-GA), and Ann Wagner (R-MO) urged the DOL to "cease its efforts" to adopt the "Retirement Security Rule" proposal "to prevent needlessly inflicting harm on millions of retirement savers across the country."