Securities and Exchange Commission July 18, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the ``Commission'') is rescinding rules under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the ``Exchange Act'') that established the Commission's program for supervising investment bank holding companies. The Commission is taking this action pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ``Dodd-Frank Act''), which eliminated the applicable section effective July 21, 2011. The Commission also is rescinding certain exemptive provisions in its broker-dealer risk assessment rules and delegation of authority rules that pertain to the supervised investment bank holding company program rules that are being rescinded.