The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued two Notices of Proposed Rulemaking that would rescind the Fair Housing Data rule and simplify licensing requirements for community banks.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a proposed rulemaking to revise the supervisory framework by defining the term "unsafe or unsound practice" and establishing a uniform standard for "Matters Requiring Board Attention".

FINRA suspended a broker for removing and transferring confidential and proprietary firm information when he left to join a competing firm.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued a proposed rulemaking to eliminate "reputation risk" as a factor in evaluating financial institutions under their supervisory programs.

In bulletins updating examination procedures, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") "eliminate[d] mandatory examination activities not required by statute or regulation to reduce supervisory burden for community banks."