💰Nasdaq PHLX Proposes Reduction in Options Regulatory Fee
The Securities and Exchange Commission published a notice regarding Nasdaq PHLX LLC's proposal to lower its Options Regulatory Fee from $0.0034 to $0.0024 per contract. This change, effective August 1, 2025, aims to align regulatory revenue with operational costs while ensuring equitable allocation among member organizations. The proposal seeks to enhance compliance and reduce transaction costs for participants in options trading.
Learn More🏦Regulatory Notice on Bank Holding Company Mergers and Acquisitions
The Federal Reserve System announces applications for the formation and acquisition of bank holding companies, including details for public comment. The notice outlines compliance requirements under the Bank Holding Company Act, offering transparency in the approval process and inviting stakeholder engagement on related mergers and acquisitions within the banking sector.
Learn More🌾USDA Ends Race and Sex-Based Preferences in Assistance Programs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has independently determined that it will no longer employ the race- and sex-based "socially disadvantaged" designation to provide increased benefits based on race and sex in the programs at issue in this regulation. The USDA has faced a long history of litigation stemming from allegations of discrimination in the administration of its farm loan and benefit programs. However, over the past several decades, USDA has undertaken substantial efforts to redress past injustices, culminating in comprehensive settlements, institutional reforms, and compensatory frameworks. These actions collectively support the conclusion that past discrimination has been sufficiently addressed and that further race- and sex-based remedies are no longer necessary or legally justified under current circumstances.
Learn More💰Agency Information Collection Request for Business Assistance
In compliance with the requirement of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the Secretary (OS), Department of Health and Human Services, is publishing the following summary of a proposed collection for public comment.
Learn More⚰️Notice of Inventory Completion by Kansas State Historical Society
In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS) has completed an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects and has determined that there is a cultural affiliation between the human remains and associated funerary objects and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations in this notice.
Learn More⚙️Continuation of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders on Steel Cylinders
As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) orders on steel propane cylinders from the People's Republic of China (China) and Thailand and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on steel propane cylinders from China would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping, and countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing a notice of continuation of these AD and CVD orders.
Learn More🌬️Mojave Desert Air Quality Regulation and Its Business Implications
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve revisions to the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District (MDAQMD or "the District") portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP). These revisions concern definitions that are necessary to implement and enforce local rules that regulate air pollution. We are proposing to approve a definitions rule under the Clean Air Act (CAA or the "Act"). We are also proposing to approve the rescission of earlier versions of this rule from the California SIP as they are no longer needed to under the CAA. We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.
Learn More💰Nasdaq PHLX Proposes QCC Rebate Amendments for Options Trading
Nasdaq PHLX LLC has filed a proposed rule change to amend its QCC rebate structure, aiming to incentivize higher trading volumes among market participants. The amendment seeks to increase the rebate from $0.27 to $0.30 per contract under specific conditions, promoting greater transaction activity on the Exchange.
Learn More⚖️AmSpec LLC Accredited as Commercial Gauger and Laboratory
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to CBP regulations, that AmSpec LLC (Corpus Christi, TX), has been approved to gauge petroleum and certain petroleum products and accredited to test petroleum and certain petroleum products for customs purposes for the next three years as of July 23, 2024.
Learn More⚖️Notice of Complaint on Wearable Electroencephalogram Devices
Notice is hereby given that the U.S. International Trade Commission has received a complaint entitled Certain Wearable Electroencephalogram Devices and Systems and Components Thereof, DN 3837; the Commission is soliciting comments on any public interest issues raised by the complaint or complainant's filing pursuant to the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.
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