The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control designated eight banks and twenty-six individuals linked to North Korean financial networks, and identified two additional banks as being part of the government of North Korea.

The SEC permanently barred a stock market analyst from trading in penny stocks. The analyst had been charged with trading on nonpublic information ahead of reports that he and his colleagues authored.

The SEC approved a proposal to delay the effective date of FINRA Margin Rule amendments from December 15, 2017 to June 25, 2018.

The CFTC Division of Market Oversight extended existing no-action relief and granted additional relief to reporting entities from ownership and control reporting requirements.