Staff at the Federal Reserve Board Divisions of Research and Statistics and of Monetary Affairs analyzed "the desirability of central versus bilateral clearing."

The U.S. government escalated sanctions against the Russian Federation for failing to comply with the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991.

Chief Innovation Officer and Director of the LabCFTC initiative Daniel Gorfine will leave the CFTC in mid-August of 2019.

The SEC granted no-action relief to an Indian based issuer in order to allow it to conduct a partial tender offer for shares of the company.

On August 5, 2019, the Trump administration imposed sweeping economic sanctions against the Venezuelan Government to further target President Nicolás Maduro's regime.