The SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy clarified that the SEC "never 'approves' an offering" of securities to investors.

FINRA outlined the steps member firms should take to monitor and respond to the increasing frequency of imposter websites created to defraud clients.

FINRA's proposal amending rules on Transaction Reporting of TRACE-Eligible Securities, to extend the reporting period and adopt a new modifier to identify certain transactions, was published in the Federal Register.

The SEC extended the compliance date for certain Regulation NMS rule amendments that were adopted to increase the transparency of broker-dealers' "handling and routing of orders in NMS stock."

The Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's proposal to amend a capital requirement for U.S. banking organizations engaged primarily in custodial activities was published in the Federal Register.