The CFTC Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) announced an extension of time for compliance in order to provide additional time for market participants to coordinate on the communication of limits for give-ups and bunched orders for futures and swaps. This extension of time is intended to provide sufficient time to transition to fully compliant pre-trade screening no later than June 1, 2013. Additionally, DCR also announced the issuance of an extension of time for compliance from pre-trade screening requirements for those transactions executed on DCMs that do not have a system permitting FCMs

The SEC is amending interim final temporary Rule 15Ba2-6T, which provides for the temporary registration of municipal advisors under the Exchange Act, to extend the date on which Rule 15Ba2-6T (and consequently Form MA-T) will sunset to September 30, 2013. Under the amendment, all temporary registrations submitted pursuant to Rule 15Ba2-6T also will expire no later than September 30, 2013. Effective Date: September 30, 2012. The expiration of the effective period of interim final temporary Rule 15Ba2-6T ( 17 CFR 240.15Ba2-6T) and Form MA-T (17 CFR 249.1300T) is delayed from September 30, 2012

Effective October 1, 2012, the Trading Activity Fee (TAF) rate for transactions in covered security futures will decrease from $0.04 for each security futures contract traded on a round-turn basis carried in a securities account to $0.00008, with a minimum fee of $0.01 per round-turn transaction. The new rate applies to round-turn transactions in security futures subject to the TAF occurring on or after October 1, 2012. View notice here(links externally to FINRA website).

This manual provides instructions on how to use EDGAR to submit draft registration statements and amendments and file them in accordance with the requirements of the JOBS Act. View manual in full here (links externally to SEC website).

The ICE Futures Exchange announced that, effective immediately, the Exchange will delist all currently listed expiration months in the Reuters Jefferies/CRB Index futures contract and the CCI Index futures contract. The Reuters Jefferies/CRB Index will cease listing new expiration months for the contract; for the CCI Index futures contract, the November 2012 and the January, February and April 2013 expiration months will continue to be listed until the regular last trading day for the respective contract month. View notice in full here (links externally to ICE website).