SEC Enforcement Division Associate Director Gerald W. Hodgkins will leave the SEC at the end of 2017.

The SEC charged a former registered representative with Exchange Act violations in connection with allegations that he gave certain customers preferential access to initial public offerings and secondary offerings in exchange for cash kickbacks.

The CFTC requested comments on a proposed interpretation of the term "actual delivery" in the context of virtual currency retail transactions. Comments are due by March 20, 2018.

FINRA's Board of Governors approved its 2018 operating budget and updated its Financial Guiding Principles.