The SEC announced that it awarded "more than $4 million to a whistleblower whose original information alerted the agency to a fraud."

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group amended regulatory guidance concerning requirements for "Exchange for Related Positions" transactions.

The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee sent inquiries to a number of commercial and residential solar power system developers seeking information about their use of federal tax incentives.

The CFTC simultaneously filed and settled charges against two banking institutions for "executing fictitious and noncompetitive block trades in Russian Ruble/U.S. Dollar futures contracts, which were cleared through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange."

The SEC approved a FINRA proposal to amend the Code of Arbitration Procedure by expanding the lists of potential public arbitrators in customer disputes.