Rule 24 Feb 2025 puerto rico, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, financial regulations, health facilities, telecommunications, fcc, virgin islands, libraries, schools, infants and children, broadband deployment, letters of credit, communications common carriers, internet, telephone

📡FCC Modifies Letters of Credit Requirements for Broadband Support

In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (the Commission) makes targeted modifications to the requirements for letters of credit (LOCs) that recipients of Universal Service Fund (USF) high-cost support awarded through a competitive process must obtain.

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Notice 20 Feb 2025 compliance, sec, financial regulations, nasdaq, options trading, market mechanisms

📈Nasdaq MRX Proposes Amendments to Options Rules

Nasdaq MRX has filed a notice to amend various options rules, including clarifying Stop Orders and improving mechanisms related to facilitation and price improvement. The proposed changes are immediately effective and seek to refine trading practices within the options market, as well as invite public comments for further review.

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Rule 18 Feb 2025 compliance, small business administration, government contracting, government procurement, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, financial regulations, penalties, small businesses, individuals with disabilities, government property, loan programs-business, grant programs-business, hubzone

🏢HUBZone Program Updates

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is correcting a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on December 17, 2024. The rule clarified and improved policies surrounding a comprehensive revision to the HUBZone Program regulations published in 2019, among other changes. This document is making several technical corrections to the final regulations.

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Notice 6 Feb 2025 commodity futures trading commission, risk management, financial regulations, swap dealers, compliance

📊CFTC Notice on Renewal of Information Collection for Swap Dealers

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("Commission" or "CFTC") is announcing an opportunity for public comments on the proposed renewal of a collection of certain information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act ("PRA"), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, including each proposed renewal of an existing collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on the collection of information mandated by Commission regulations 23.600 (Risk Management Program for Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants), 23.601 (Monitoring of Position Limits), 23.602 (Diligent Supervision), 23.603 (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery), 23.606 (General Information: Availability for Disclosure and Inspection), and 23.607 (Antitrust Considerations).

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Notice 5 Feb 2025 banking, acquisitions, financial regulations, federal reserve, compliance

🏦Change in Bank Control Notices and Financial Implications

The Federal Reserve System issued a notice regarding applications for bank control changes involving share acquisitions. The notice outlines the public inspection process for filings, invites public comments, and specifies the regulations governing these actions under the Change in Bank Control Act.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 23 Jan 2025 sec, financial regulations, rule change, national securities clearing corporation, depositary trust company
Compliance, Financial Regulations 23 Jan 2025 compliance, financial regulations, irs, banks, bad debt reserves, us treasury

📊IRS Solicits Comments on Bad Debt Reserves Regulation Project TD 8513

The Internal Revenue Service, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The IRS is soliciting comments concerning Bad Debt Reserves of Banks.

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Regulatory Changes, Financial Compliance 23 Jan 2025 compliance, securities, financial regulations, nasdaq, delisting, stock market
Compliance, Financial Services 23 Jan 2025 market data, sec, cboe, financial regulations, timestamping service
Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 22 Jan 2025 compliance, financial regulations, business impact, treasury, blocked persons, sanctions, ofac

🚫OFAC Sanctions Notice

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons 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 are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them.

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