Financial Information Forum criticized related FINRA and MSRB proposals to shorten the required reporting time for certain fixed income securities.

The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire ruled that digital asset company LBRY violated U.S. securities laws as a result of selling tokens that were securities without registering the tokens with the SEC.

In response to a Treasury request for comment on the use of digital assets in illicit finance activities, SIFMA asserted that traditional financial institutions are well-prepared to manage the risk of digital assets being employed for improper purposes.

A broker-dealer settled FINRA charges for exercising a customer's expiring options after the FINRA-designated exercise cut-off time.

The CFPB reopened the comment period on a Request for Information issued to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal and Square regarding how each firm uses personal payment data and manages data access.