The SEC accepted offers of settlement in two enforcement actions involving "disclosure violations that deprived investors of material information during battles for corporate control of publicly traded companies."

The SEC adopted amendments that extend the expiration date of interim final rules providing exemptions for certain security-based swaps.

President Trump signed a Congressional resolution to nullify an SEC final rule regarding the disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers.

A FINRA hearing panel found that a broker-dealer intentionally misrepresented and omitted material information regarding sales of joint venture interests that constituted "securities."

The SEC approved a FINRA proposal to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions from T+3 to T+2.