U.S. Securities and Exchange CommissionToronto, Ontario Pre- and post-trade transparency -- Summary of introductory remarks by Chairman Schapiro. View speech here.

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Hawaii resident and two firms he used to orchestrate a scheme in which he covertly founded small companies, installed management, and recruited overseas boiler rooms that pressured investors into buying their stock while he pocketed more than $2 million in consulting fees from proceeds of the fraudulent stock sales. View release in full here.View related SEC Complaint.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained two federal court consent orders of permanent injunction, one order requiring defendant Ronald E. Satterfield, of Charleston, S.C., to pay $957,146 of restitution and a $2,871,438 civil monetary penalty, and the other order requiring defendant Nicholas Bos (Bos) of Ludington, Mich., to pay $849,146 of restitution and a $2,547,438 civil monetary penalty, for operating a foreign currency (forex) Ponzi scheme. The Bos order also requires Patricia Bos (P. Bos), a relief defendant and Bos' wife, to disgorge $295,000 in ill-gotten gains

This statement is intended to provide clarification of supervisory expectations for stress testing by community banks. Cross References: Dodd-Frank Sections 155 156 View statement in full here.

This joint guidance is applicable to all institutions supervised by the agencies with more than $10 billion in total consolidated assets. Specifically, with respect to the OCC, these banking organizations include national banking associations, federal savings associations, and federal branches and agencies; with respect to the Board, these banking organizations include state member banks, bank holding companies, savings and loan holding companies, and all other institutions for which the Federal Reserve is the primary federal supervisor; with respect to the FDIC, these banking organizations