Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell characterized recent Department of Justice subpoenas as "pretexts" to pressure the Fed to lower interest rates.

The SEC proposed amending rules "that define the terms 'small business' and 'small organization' ... to increase the asset-based thresholds used in those definitions."

The Congressional Research Service reviewed the current state of Federal Reserve independence amidst recent executive actions aimed at increasing presidential oversight.

The Congressional Research Service reviewed the Department of Labor’s guidance and regulations concerning the exercise of shareholder rights by private sector pension plans under ERISA.

The CFTC’s Divisions of Market Oversight Clearing and Risk granted a no-action request by a designated contract market and derivatives clearing organization on swap data reporting and recordkeeping requirements for certain fully collateralized binary and bounded swaps.