United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed Geoffrey S. Berman to serve as Interim United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Two new members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board were sworn in. William A. Duhnke III will serve as PCAOB Chair and Kathleen M. Hamm will serve as a Board Member.

U.S. prosecutors indicted the former executive managing director of a hedge fund for investment advisor fraud in connection with certain investments in an African mining company.

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System proposed amending Regulation M, which was issued to implement the Consumer Leasing Act.