FINRA adopted amendments to provide margin relief for specified index option positions, referred to as "protected options."
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The Federal Reserve Bank and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency fined a bank for failing to monitor firm and client trading activities.
The CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee advanced recommendations on: (i) the use of U.S. Treasuries as margin collateral, (ii) the securities market's move to T+1 securities settlement and (iii) a digital asset taxonomy.
Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr reported that, going forward, the Federal Reserve plans to focus on supervision over fundamental risk management related to counterparty credit risk practices.
The CFTC withdrew its original proposal and newly proposed to allow an FCM, subject to certain conditions, to treat separate accounts of a single beneficial owner as if they were owned by different persons, for purposes of margin withdrawals from the separate accounts.