Securities and Exchange Commission 2015 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Securities and Exchange Commission is publishing interpretive guidance to clarify how the Commission will interpret the terms ``spouse'' and ``marriage'' in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Windsor.

Applicants request an order to permit open-end management investment companies relying on rule 12d1-2 under the Act to invest in certain financial instruments.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) is adopting revisions to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System (EDGAR) Filer Manual and related rules to reflect updates to the EDGAR system. The updates are being made primarily to add new submission form types N-CR and N-CR/A for Current Report of Money Market Fund Material Events; update submission form types ABS-15G and ABS-15G/A for Asset-backed securities reporting based on Rule 15Ga- 2; no longer display OMB expiration date on submission form types 13F and 13H; no longer provide support for the 2013 US GAAP financial reporting and 2013 EXCH taxonomies; documentation only corrections to Chapter 3, ``Index to Forms,'' of the ``EDGAR Filer Manual, Volume II: EDGAR Filing,'' which include adding submission types 8-K12B and 8- K12B/A to Table 3-3, ``Securities Exchange ActRegistration and Report Submission Types Accepted by EDGAR''; and documentation only changes to ``EDGAR Filer Manual, Volume II: EDGAR Filing'' for Section 508 compliance. The EDGAR system is scheduled to be upgraded to support this functionality on June 15, 2015.