FINRA amended its By-Laws to exempt certain transactions from the Trading Activity Fee. The exemptions apply to transactions conducted by a proprietary trading firm and that are effected on an exchange of which the firm is a member.

Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michael S. Barr promoted incorporating "exploratory scenarios" to address limitations in the FRB's current stress test program for the U.S. banking system.

The New York Attorney General sued a cryptocurrency platform and cryptocurrency lender for operating a fraudulent investment program.

Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Philip N. Jefferson outlined current policy questions on central clearing in the Treasury market.

The SEC proposed a rule that would prohibit national securities exchanges from offering volume-based transaction pricing to broker-dealers executing agency or riskless principal orders in NMS stocks.