The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Coinbase's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings in the SEC's case against the exchange, allowing the SEC to proceed with its lawsuit. The SEC alleges that the Coinbase operates as an unregistered exchange, broker and clearing agency.
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Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee and the House Committee on Agriculture requested clarification from the SEC as to whether the Ethereum token, Ether, is a security.
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.
CFPB Director Rohit Chopra decried the trend toward bank consolidation and proposed reforms to bank merger policy.
The OCC, the FRB and the FDIC jointly issued (i) an interim final rule that delays the applicability date of the facility-based assessment areas and public file provisions contained in the Community Reinvestment Act and (ii) a final rule that makes related technical amendments.