The SEC announced that it named Thomas J. Krysa as the Associate Regional Director for Enforcement in its Denver office, where he will oversee enforcement efforts in seven western states. See: SEC Press Release.

The SEC issued a report on the use of custom tag rates to describe elements in financial statements. The report is a response to a recent SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis assessment of the quality of XBRL exhibits submitted by issuers complying with the 2009 rule requirements to file financial statement information in XBRL format. The purpose of the assessment was to help define a baseline of filer behavior with respect to filers' tagging of financial statements in their electronic filings, including how their behavior has evolved following the completion of the full phase-in of

The SEC announced that former Noble CEO Mark A. Jackson and former Director and Division Manager of Noble's Nigeria subsidiary James J. Ruehlen, who remains an executive at the company, agreed to settle the SEC's pending civil actions against them. The SEC filed its complaint in February 2012, in which it alleged that Jackson and Ruehlen had authorized the payment of bribes to customs officials to process false paperwork purporting to show the export and re-import of oil rigs, when in fact the rigs never moved. To settle the action, Jackson consented to the entry of a final judgment enjoining

The National Futures Association ("NFA") issued a notice to members indicating that the NFA assessment fee will be $.01 per side for futures and options contracts, effective October 1, 2014; the new rate is a 50 percent decrease from the current rate. See: NFA Notice I-14-18.

The National Futures Association ("NFA") proposal to adopt an Interpretive Notice to NFA Compliance Rules 2-4 and 2-36 ("Prohibition on the Use of Certain Electronic Funding Mechanisms") was published in the Federal Register. The proposed Interpretive Notice would prohibit NFA members from allowing customers to fund futures or forex accounts with a credit card or another electronic funding method tied to a credit card. According to the NFA, this prohibition is consistent with the NFA's position that it is a violation of Compliance Rule 2-4 ("Just and Equitable Principles of Trade") and Rule 2