The SEC adopted new rules that implement the provisions of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Act concerning (i) business conduct standards, (ii) the designation of a chief compliance officer for security-based swap ("SBS") dealers and major SBS participants, and (iii) the cross-border application of the rules and the availability of substituted compliance.

The CFTC Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight granted relief to several commodity pool operators from the annual report filing requirement, and from the requirement that such reports contain an audited annual financial statement.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the FDIC provided firm-specific feedback on the 2015 resolution plans of eight systemically important banking institutions.

The Senate Agricultural Committee passed the Commodity End-User Relief Act, a bill that would reauthorize the CFTC through 2018 and amend certain provisions of the Dodd–Frank Act.

The SEC approved proposed FINRA Rule 4590 in order to reduce the synchronization tolerance for FINRA members' computer clocks that record events in National Market System securities. The SEC's order of approval was published in the Federal Register.