An SEC and CFTC joint proposal to (i) lower the minimum customer margin requirement for security futures and (ii) revise the margin offset table consistent with the proposed reduction was published in the federal register.

The SEC and CFTC requested comment on a proposal to reduce the margin requirement for an unhedged security futures position and to align the margin offset table for security futures with the reduced margin requirements.

FINRA proposed amendments to the Security Futures Risk Disclosure Statement to reflect recent changes on position limits for security futures contracts, market-wide circuit breaker benchmarks and thresholds, and that exchanges may now list security futures on certain debt instruments.

FINRA proposed updates to the security futures risk disclosure statement.

NFA announced the effective date of rule amendments designed to clarify the applicability of certain NFA rules and interpretive notices to certain regulated entities.