The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC approved an interagency final rule intended to simplify the Volcker Rule.

Two companies agreed to pay $16 million to settle CFTC charges of wheat futures price manipulation. The CFTC agreed not to make "any public statement about this case."

The CFTC Division of Market Oversight granted time-limited relief to the Irish bank subsidiary of a UK-based financial institution to act as reporting counterparty for certain swaps with U.S. persons.

CME issued fines and suspensions against two brokers and a futures brokerage firm for separate trade practice violations.

Trade associations commented on central counterparty default management issues raised by the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and IOSCO.

SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce expressed support for SEC Chair Jay Clayton's initiative to review and amend outdated regulations.

A futures commission merchant settled NFA charges for failing to compensate retail forex customers whose orders were adversely affected by an ongoing malfunction in the firm's electronic trading platform.

The NFA suspended a CPO and CTA for failure to register their commodity pool with the NFA.

ISDA began conducting targeted surveys as part of an initiative to drive efficiencies in post-trade services.

CFTC Chair Heath P. Tarbert named Summer K. Mersinger as Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and Suyash G. Paliwal as Director of the Office of International Affairs.