The SEC extended the comment period for the following proposals: (i) new Rule 13q-1 adopted under Section 1504 and (ii) an amendment to Form SD to implement Section 1504 ("Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers") of the Dodd-Frank Act.

The North American Securities Administrators Association requested comments on a proposed model rule and uniform notice filing form for Regulation A – Tier 2 offerings.

In a recent Energy Metro Desk article, publisher and editor-in-chief John Sodergreen discusses the fate of the three-member CFTC Commission, given the current political climate.

Responding to a Bank of England staff working paper that favors the liquidity impact of swap execution facilities, University of Houston Finance Professor Craig Pirrong asked "the dog food question": "If the dog food is as great as the ads say, why don't the dogs eat it? If SEFs are so much more liquid, why don't traders flock to them?"

FINRA released the final podcast in its four-part series on conflicts of interest involving the publication and distribution of research reports.