The SEC will hold an open meeting in order to decide whether to (i) adopt amendments and issue guidance concerning its regulation on reporting security-based swaps, (ii) propose amendments regarding the disclosure of order-handling information, and (iii) propose amendments that would address redundant, duplicative and superseded disclosure requirements.

The CFTC simultaneously filed and settled charges against a processor and trader of crude palm oil. The entity held or controlled soybean oil futures positions but failed to comply with CFTC reporting requirements.

The Federal Register published a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau request for comments on a proposal to exempt certain financial institutions from the annual notice requirement of Regulation P.

SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar asserted that the delay in issuing a proposal to establish a two-business-day settlement cycle is "wholly unacceptable."

The New York Department of Financial Services adopted standards for filtering programs that monitor transactions for potential anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act violations and block transactions that are prohibited by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.