The CFTC Division of Clearing and Risk granted an extension of no-action relief to the Shanghai Clearing House from registration as a derivatives clearing organization.

The SEC Division of Corporation Finance granted no-action relief from certain tender offer requirements to Yahoo! Inc. The relief will permit the technology company to repurchase outstanding shares of common stock.

The SEC named Robert Stebbins as General Counsel, Jaime Kilma as Chief Counsel, and Sean Memon as Deputy Chief of Staff.

FINRA requested comments on rules concerning the outside business and securities activities of member firm employees.

The National Futures Association expressed its willingness to review swap dealers' internal models for calculating market and credit risk exposures in order to determine whether the models are in compliance with the proposed regulations.