The NYSE proposed extending the transition period for newly listed companies to establish an internal audit function from one year to five years.

The Investment Company Institute expressed its support for proposed federal legislation that would prevent states from seizing and liquidating securities and other investment accounts based solely on inactivity.

The OCC and FDIC proposed amending their Community Reinvestment Act rules to raise bank size thresholds, narrow community development criteria, revise Lending Test and Service Test evaluations, and modernize public disclosure requirements, largely retaining the structure of the agencies' 1995 CRA rules.

The DOJ outlined five enforcement priorities for its newly created National Fraud Enforcement Division, focusing on government procurement, healthcare, tax evasion, global trade, and corporate misconduct.

The SEC denied a credit rating agency's application to register as a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization for two additional classes of credit ratings, asset-backed and government securities, classes for which its registration was revoked in 2013 for material misstatements.