FINRA notified member firms of upcoming elections (i) for the FINRA Small Firm Advisory Committee representative in the New York region and (ii) to fill multiple vacancies in FINRA's Regional Committees.

The SEC Division of Corporation Finance designated a Taiwan stock exchange as a "designated offshore securities market" under Securities Act rules and regulations.

Google and YouTube agreed to pay $170 million in order to settle FTC and New York Attorney General charges for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.

Five companies settled FTC charges for falsely identifying themselves as participants in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, which allows companies to transfer consumer data from the European Union and Switzerland to the United States.

The FDIC proposal amending interest rate restrictions for insured depository institutions that are less than "well capitalized" was published in the Federal Register.