The SEC announced the agenda and panelists for its February 19, 2015 roundtable on ways to improve the proxy voting process. The roundtable will be divided into two panels. The first panel will focus on (i) the state of contested director elections, (ii) whether changes should be made to the federal proxy rules to facilitate the use of universal proxy ballots by management and proxy contestants, and (iii) state law, logistical and disclosure issues presented by a possible universal proxy ballot process. The second panel will focus on strategies for increasing retail shareholder participation

CME, CBOT, NYMEX and COMEX (the "Exchanges") issued a Market Regulation Advisory Notice that supersedes a previous notice and is being reissued to amend effective dates and compliance dates to reflect CFTC Letter 15-03, which was issued on February 10, 2015. This Advisory Notice continues to reflect changes to CME Rule 561 in connection with the CFTC Ownership and Control Reports ("OCR"). Rule 561, which pertains to large trader reporting, was amended to require that the submission of Forms 102A and 102B to the Exchanges be in the same form and manner as is required by the CFTC's OCR Rule

The CFTC announced that the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting on February 26, 2015. The meeting, which is sponsored by CFTC Commissioner Giancarlo, will consider the proposed position limits rules and how these proposals will impact energy and environmental markets. Se e: CFTC Meeting Announcement. Related news: CFTC Issues Clarification Regarding Comments on Position Limits for Physical Commodity Derivatives and Aggregation Proposals (with Zwirb Comment and Delta Strategy Group Summary) (December 31, 2014); CFTC Holds Agricultural Advisory

The CFTC Division of Market Oversight ("DMO") issued a no-action letter that extends the previous conditional time-limited relief provided to trading platform Yieldbroker Pty Limited ("Yieldbroker"). Therefore, DMO will not recommend enforcement action by the CFTC against Yieldbroker for failure to register as a swap execution facility under CEA Section 5h(a)(1) ("Swap Execution Facilities") or CFTC Rule 37.3(a)(1) ("Requirements and Procedures for Registration"), or against any market participant who uses or has other relationships with Yieldbroker for the period ending on May 15, 2015. The

On February 11, 2015, the SEC published final rules regarding (i) the registration of security-based swap data repositories ("SBSDRs") (the " SBSDR Rules") and (ii) requirements for reporting and the public dissemination of security-based swap ("SBS") data (" Reg. SBSR"). The SEC also proposed additional rules for implementing Reg. SBSR that primarily focus on cleared SBS but also include a proposed compliance timeline for Reg. SBSR generally (the " Reg. SBSR Proposal"). General Overview The rules generally require market participants to report creation and life-cycle data regarding SBS