The North American Securities Administrators Association reminded investors of the education resources that are available from state securities regulators.

New SRO rules and rule proposals were announced by the SEC.

The SEC Division of Corporate Finance accepted the request by Oslo Børs - Norway’s only regulated markets for securities trading - to include the Merkur Market portion of the Oslo Stock Exchange in its Designated Offshore Securities Market specification.

FINRA's amendment would clarify the definition of "capital acquisition brokers" under its proposal to create a separate rule set.

The SEC requested comment on Amendment No. 2 to a FINRA rule proposal to adopt margin requirements for "to-be-announced" transactions and other forward-settling agency securities transactions.