⚠️OFAC Sanctions Impacting U.S. Businesses in the Energy Sector
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons and vessels that have been placed on OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) based on OFAC's determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. All property and interests in property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these persons, including the identified vessels, are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.
Learn More📈SEC's Daily Computation Rule Changes for Broker-Dealers
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") is adopting amendments to the broker-dealer customer protection rule to require certain broker-dealers to perform their reserve computations for accounts of customers and proprietary accounts of broker-dealers and make any required deposits into their reserve bank accounts daily rather than weekly. The Commission also is adopting amendments to the broker-dealer net capital rule and customer protection rule to permit certain broker-dealers that perform a daily reserve computation for accounts of customers to reduce aggregate debit items (i.e., customer- related receivables) by 2% rather than 3% as part of the computation. Finally, the Commission is adopting technical amendments to the Financial and Operational Combined Uniform Single Report ("FOCUS Report") to conform it to the amendments with respect to the lowering of the debit reduction from 3% to 2%.
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