The House Financial Services Committee considered (i) testimony from federal banking regulators on a broad range of concerns and (ii) several proposed bills imposing additional requirements on financial institutions.

The SEC Division of Trading and Markets issued guidance to "facilitate applications" for certain substituted compliance based on the security-based swap requirements of a non-U.S. jurisdiction.

At a CFTC Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee meeting, panelists described challenges that the diversification of energy generation resources pose for the derivatives markets.

U.S. prudential regulators' proposed rule amendments governing margin requirements for uncleared swaps and security-based swaps were published in the Federal Register.

The Federal Reserve Board, Farm Credit Administration, Federal Housing Finance Agency and OCC proposed rule amendments governing margin requirements for uncleared swaps and security-based swaps.

The CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee established a subcommittee on margin requirements for uncleared swaps.

A CFTC proposal to extend the implementation date of initial margin requirements for 2020 and 2021 was published in the Federal Register.

The Congressional Research Service highlighted possible benefits and risks concerning Facebook's proposed virtual currency, Libra.

A CFTC proposal amending uncleared swap margin regulations to exempt certain transactions from the European Stability Mechanism was published in the Federal Register.

The CFTC voted to propose amending its uncleared swap margin regulations to (i) extend the implementation date of initial margin requirements, and (ii) exempt certain transactions from uncleared margin requirements.