NFA urged members to increase their vigilance of cybersecurity threats and to monitor the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control’s webpage on current sanctions against Russia.

NFA amended AML interpretive guidance for futures commission merchants and introducing brokers to incorporate CFTC guidance on the regulatory obligations of "voice" brokers.

A CFTC-registered introducing broker settled NFA charges for failing to maintain complete records and allowing an unregistered individual to operate as an associated person.

NFA amendments that modify the definition of "branch office" to exclude certain locations that are part of a hybrid work-from-home environment will go into effect on September 23, 2021.

NFA set the effective date of September 30, 2021, for a recently adopted interpretive notice concerning members' use of third-party service providers.