The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and IOSCO provided technical guidance to regulatory authorities on harmonizing the uniform global usage of "Unique Transaction Identifiers."

The Cabinet Regulatory Tracker provides a list of upcoming effective dates, comment deadlines and compliance dates. Click on the links to view deadlines that fall between March 1 and March 15, 2017.

SEC Commissioner Kara M. Stein asserted that regulators must "look forward" not "backward" in order to take advantage of the "amazing opportunities" created by changes in the market.

FINRA launched a new Academic Corporate Bond TRACE Data product. The product is intended to support academic research by making corporate bond transaction data available to institutions of higher education.

The Office of Financial Research academics analyzed the effects of "procyclical" central counterparty margin requirements.