NYMEX denied several traders and a trading firm direct or indirect access to any Chicago Mercantile Exchange trading floor for failure to cooperate in an investigation of suspected trading anomalies.
The CFTC approved (i) three foreign board of trade applications submitted by European entities and (ii) technical corrections to consumer data privacy rules.
The SEC called on exchanges and market participants to submit "innovative" proposals intended to improve the secondary market structure for exchange-listed equity securities traded in low volumes.
SEC Investor Advocate Rick Fleming urged regulators and stock exchanges to increase the oversight of dual-class share structures, warning that these structures risk harm to investors and the public markets.
The SEC proposal to rescind certain exceptions concerning national market system plan fee changes was published in the Federal Register. Comments must be submitted by December 10, 2019.