The Federal Trade Commission approved final amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Rules ("HSR") that allow HSR filings to be submitted on DVDs.

FINRA filed a proposed rule change with the SEC that would adopt NASD interpretive material into the FINRA rulebook. The material concerns communications on variable life insurance and annuities.

The SEC adopted amendments that enhance the reporting and disclosure of information by investment advisers. Investment advisers must comply with the final amendments beginning on October 1, 2017.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury released preliminary data from an annual survey of U.S. portfolio holdings of foreign securities at year-end 2015.

The CFTC granted conditional no-action relief permitting a swap dealer to include security-based swaps in product sets for initial margin calculations where the swaps are subject to margin requirements applicable to a covered swap entity's counterparty.