The Financial Stability Board has published its fourth bi-yearly progress report on the implementation of OTC derivatives market reforms. The key points of the report are that: the development of market infrastructure does not appear to be a stumbling block to meeting G20 commitments; international policy work on global clearing is substantially complete, with implementation proceeding at a national level; and regulatory uncertainty remains the greatest obstacle to further progress. The FSB invites the public to provide feedback on its report by November 30, 2012. Once you open the progress

The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations issued a press release saying that it plans to issue a report of the the results of its year-long investigation into the collapse of MF Global in the next few weeks. According to the press release, the investigation has involved three hearings, more than 50 interviews, and the review of over 243,000 documents obtained from MF Global, its former employees, federal regulators and other sources. View press release in full here(links externally to House Committee on Financial Services website).

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a proposed rulemaking to amend its retail foreign exchange rule for transactions with collective investment funds (CIFs) and insurance company separate accounts. The OCC's retail forex rule, which was adopted in July 2011 and which governs retail forex transactions with federal depository institutions regulated by the OCC, is modeled after a CFTC rule governing retail forex transactions by CFTC registrants. The proposed amendments reflect provisions in the joint CFTC/SEC entities rule that treat certain investment pools as retail

The MSRB published this notice to update dealers on a recent development related to an upcoming change to the MSRB's Real-Time Transaction Reporting System ("RTRS") that is scheduled to become effective on November 5, 2012. As a result of disruptions experienced by some market participants due to Hurricane Sandy, the MSRB has updated plans for implementing the change that requires brokers, dealers and municipal securities dealers to report for inter-dealer transactions -- in addition to the information currently reported -- the contractual dollar price at which the transaction was executed

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