The FINRA-proposed rule change to adopt FINRA Rule 0190 ("Effective Date of Revocation, Cancellation, Expulsion, Suspension or Resignation") and FINRA Rule 2040 ("Payments to Unregistered Persons"), and to amend FINRA Rule 8311 ("Effect of a Suspension, Revocation, Cancellation, or Bar"), was published in the Federal Register. Comments on the proposed rule should be submitted by October 22, 2014. See: 79 FR 59322. Related news: FINRA Proposes to Adopt FINRA Rule 2040 ("Payments to Unregistered Persons") and Amend Rule 8311 ("Effect of a Suspension") (September 10, 2014).

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") issued a bulletin making certain OCC guidance applicable to federal savings associations ("FSAs"), as well as reaffirming certain interagency guidance as applicable to FSAs. Additionally, the OCC rescinded several Office of Thrift Supervision ("OTS") documents. With the issuance of this bulletin, the OCC applied to FSAs certain guidance issued before the OTS integration date, listed in the bulletin in Appendix A. Appendix B lists interagency guidance issued before the OTS integration date that continues to apply to FSAs, and Appendix C

The MSRB announced that it began its fiscal year for 2015 and that its 21-member Board of Directors convened. Kym Arnone is the new chair of the MSRB Board of Directors and Marcy Edwards is the vice chair. The MSRB also announced the Board's committee assignments. See : MSRB Press Release.

An announcement reestablishing the CFTC Technology Advisory Committee ("TAC") was published in the Federal Register. The TAC charter will be filed with the CFTC, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, the House Committee on Agriculture, the Library of Congress, and the General Services Administration’s Committee Management Secretariat. The TAC itself will be chaired by CFTC Chair Timothy Massad. See: 79 FR 59254.

The CFTC announced that it obtained a federal court consent order against an individual for attempting to manipulate the wheat futures market. According to the CFTC, the relevant individual attempted to manipulate the price of the Chicago Board of Trade ("CBOT") #2 Soft Red Winter Wheat Futures Contract during eight different days in October 2009 and entered into fictitious sales and noncompetitive transactions during four days in October 2009. The CFTC found that this individual intended to create a misleading impression of rising liquidity in the marketplace by electronically entering and