ICE Future U.S. annouced that, effective October 16, the Exchange is implementing various rule amendments to support trading of Energy Contracts. A brief summary of the relevant rule amendments is included in the attached notice below. View exchange notice in full here (links externally to ICE website).

ICE Futures U.S. announced that, effective Wednesday, October 17, IFUS will implement revised block minimums, aggregation methods and reporting times for energy contracts. All energy block trades must comply with the same Exchange and CFTC requirements already in place for allowable block trades at IFUS. View exchange notice in full here (links externally to ICE website).

ICE Futures U.S. is implementing various rule amendments - effective October 17 - to comply with new CFTC regulations which apply to the designation and operation of contract markets. View exchange notice in full for a description of each amendment and the text of the amended rule (links externally to ICE website).

New rule proposals from NASDAQ. Click on the link to view the SEC's notice of the proposed amendment. NASDAQ: Proposed Amendment - Modify Certain Disclosure Requirements to Require Listed Companies to Publicly Describe the Specific Basis and Concern Identified by Nasdaq When a Company Does Not Meet a Listing Standard and Give Nasdaq the Authority to Make Such Public Announcement When a Listed Company Fails to Do So

Section 12(g) of the Exchange Act requires an issuer to register with the SEC, even if the issuer is not listed on a national securities exchange, if the issuer is of a certain size and has a certain number of owners. Under the JOBS Act, registration of an unlisted issuer is not required if an issuer has less than 2,000 holders of record and, of those, less than 500 are not accredited investors. The SEC Division of Corporation Finance conducted the attached study, as obligated bySection 504 of the JOBS Act to examine current Exchange Act Rule 12g5-1(b)(3) (Definition of Securities "Held of