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The American Banking Association, SIFMA and the Institute of International Bankers proposed revisions to a Federal Reserve Board proposal to modify its regulations for determining "whether a company has the ability to exercise a controlling influence" on another company.

George Mason University Mercatus Center research fellow Sherzod Abdukadirov published a commentary criticizing the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Mr. Abdukadirov suggested that the Unified Agenda is inaccurate, difficult to use and poorly organized. He pointed to studies indicating that a quarter of proposed regulations did not appear in the Unified Agenda, and 40% of regulations that did appear in the Unified Agenda did not get published within the following 16 months. He further suggested that the

The CFTC entered an order and simultaneously settled charges against an Australia-based financial services company for failing to comply with the obligation to submit accurate large trader reports ("LTRs") for physical commodity swap positions. This failure violated Section 4s(f) of the CEA and CFTC Rules 20. 4 and 20.7. The order states that the financial services company (i) did not identify any underlying commodity, (ii) routinely populated the field for "Commodity Reference Price" in a format other than the one provided by the CFTC's Guidebook for Part 20 Reports , (iii) reported certain