The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and IOSCO reported that there is increasing coordination among global financial authorities in overseeing financial market infrastructures.

CFTC Chair Heath P. Tarbert described five strategic goals for the agency and outlined related action plans.

CFTC Chair Heath Tarbert called for a "predominately principles-based approach" to regulating digital assets and other FinTech products.

A group of fourteen trade associations urged the European Commission to grant an extension for the temporary equivalence for UK central counterparties until certain regulatory implementations have been made under EMIR 2.2 and until the European Securities and Markets Authority.

The SEC Division of Trading and Markets issued a time-limited no-action letter allowing a New York limited purpose trust company to use blockchain technology to settle equities securities trades.

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

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

ISDA offered additional guidance on documentation for the OTC derivatives market in the event of a "no deal" Brexit.

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.

ISDA CEO Scott O'Malia highlighted potential issues affecting derivatives trading obligations following Brexit in the absence of an equivalence determination.