FINRA requested comment on "pennying" - the practice of a broker-dealer executing a customer order at a price that matches or only slightly beats (e.g., by a penny) the best auction price from a third party in the corporate bond market.

Caroline Crenshaw and Hester Peirce were sworn into office as SEC commissioners.

A broker-dealer settled FINRA charges for failing to detect potentially suspicious insider trading and for failing to produce discovery in a FINRA arbitration proceeding.

FINRA proposed amendments to the Security Futures Risk Disclosure Statement to reflect recent changes on position limits for security futures contracts, market-wide circuit breaker benchmarks and thresholds, and that exchanges may now list security futures on certain debt instruments.

President Trump issued an Executive Order directing ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese-owned parent company of social networking application TikTok, to divest its U.S. assets within 90 days.