Following the U.S. Government's action on Friday, April 11, 2014 to impose travel bans and asset freezes on a limited number of additional Crimean individuals and entities, Canada announced on Saturday that it had named two of the same individuals – Mikhail Malyshev and Valery Medvedev – to its own sanctions list. Those individuals were named to EU and U.K. sanctions lists on March 21, 2014. Like the United States, Canada also imposed sanctions against Chernomorneftegaz, a subsidiary of the Ukrainian state-owned Naftogaz oil and gas company that was seized by the breakaway Crimean parliament

The NFA issued a notice to members addressing Internet security concerns surrounding the "Heartbleed" bug. The NFA stated that it has examined its systems and determined that the NFA website (including the ORS and EasyFile systems) is not vulnerable to the Heartbleed security flaw. See: NFA Notice I-14-10.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") published a final rule to implement Dodd-Frank Section 210(r) ("Powers and Duties of the Corporation") in the Federal Register. Under Section 210(r), individuals or entities that have, or may have, contributed to the failure of a "covered financial company" cannot buy that covered financial company's assets from the FDIC. The final rule establishes a self-certification process that is a prerequisite to the purchase of assets of a covered financial company from the FDIC. The final rule will become effective on July 1, 2014. See: 79 FR 20762.

FINRA filed with the SEC a proposed rule change to adopt FINRA Rule 2081, which would permit member firms and associated persons from conditioning or seeking to condition the settlement of a dispute with a customer on, or otherwise to compensate the customer for, the customer's agreement to consent to, or not to oppose, the firm's or associated person's request to expunge such customer dispute information from the Central Registration Depository ("CRD"). Specifically, FINRA Rule 2081 would provide that no member or associated person shall condition or seek to condition the settlement of a

On April 14, 2014 in National Association of Manufacturers v. SEC, the D.C. Circuit partially struck down the SEC's rule regarding Section 1502 of Dodd-Frank, which requires issuers to disclose whether their products contain "conflict minerals." Conflict minerals are defined in Dodd-Frank as four types of minerals mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC") or one of its neighboring countries. The SEC's rule requires that, if an issuer determines, after a reasonable country of origin inquiry and subsequent due diligence, that conflict minerals are present in its products, it must