FINRA launched a new self-reporting initiative to promote firm compliance with suitability requirements related to transactions in 529 savings plans.

The U.S. Treasury Department ("Treasury") Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") lifted sanctions imposed on En+ Group plc, UC Rusal plc and JSC EuroSibEnergo (collectively, the "companies"). Under the terms of their removal from OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List ("SDN List"), the companies have reduced sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's "direct and indirect shareholding stake in these companies and severed his control." OFAC stated that the majority of the board of directors for En+ Group plc and UC Rusal plc will be independent directors that have no

In its sixth annual report, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") Office of Servicemember Affairs analyzed complaints from servicemembers, veterans and their families (collectively, "servicemembers") regarding financial services or products. The CFPB stated that roughly 48,800 complaints from servicemembers were received during the reporting period, April 1, 2017 and August 31, 2018. The majority of complaints by servicemembers related to credit or consumer reporting and debt collection. These include, among others, incorrect information on credit reports that put security

ISDA recommended risk management best practices to ensure "greater consistency in risk practices at CCPs across the globe." In the Best Practices paper, ISDA recommends, among other things, that: risk management be consistent with the underlying risk of a particular product ( e.g., distinguishing products traded on a central order book from OTC-cleared products); CCPs have "robust membership requirements" ( i.e., financial and operational capability) that are reviewed consistently; products that are cleared by a CCP be adequately "standardized and liquid"; CCPs ensure that there is sufficient