CME Group and the Kansas City Board of Trade announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which CME Group will acquire the Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT).

The SEC Division of Trading and Markets will be holding a Sunshine Act open meeting on October 17 to consider whether to propose capital, margin, and segregation requirements for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants, and amendments to Exchange Act Rule 15c3-1 for broker-dealers. View notice here (links externally to SEC website).

Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act requires an issuer to register with the SEC, even if the issuer is not listed on a national securities exchange, if the issuer is of a certain size and has a certain number of owners. Under the JOBS Act, registration of an unlisted issuer is not required if an issuer has less than 2,000 holders of record and, of those, less than 500 are not accredited investors. The SEC Division of Corporation Finance conducted the attached study, as obligated bySection 504 of the JOBS Act to examine current Exchange Act Rule 12g5-1(b)(3) (Definition of Securities "Held of

The SEC staff published the attached legal bulletin to provide information and guidance for companies and shareholders regarding Exchange Act Rule 14a-8. Specifically, this bulletin covers: the parties that can provide proof of ownership under Rule 14a-8(b)(2)(i) for purposes of verifying whether a beneficial owner is eligible to submit a proposal under Rule 14a-8; the manner in which companies should notify proponents of a failure to provide proof of ownership for the one-year period required under Rule 14a-8(b)(1); and the use of website references in proposals and supporting statements

ICE Futures U.S. is implementing various rule amendments - effective October 17 - to comply with new CFTC regulations which apply to the designation and operation of contract markets. View exchange notice in full for a description of each amendment and the text of the amended rule (links externally to ICE website).