After three-month review, agency may decide next month to require interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, and other securities to trade on the platforms.

Here's what's in the much-anticipated final version of the Volcker Rule, designed to increase oversight of securities trading.

Wall Street trade groups sue the CFTC to curb overseas reach of its regulations.

CFTC commissioner cites legal and enforcement issues surrounding agency's regulation of swaps trades performed by U.S.-based firms for overseas affiliates.

CFTC moves effective date to Jan. 14 for policy requiring Dodd-Frank compliance on swaps trades made by U.S.-based traders on behalf of overseas affiliates.

Banks complain that last week's CFTC policy, published as a staff advisory, may expose overseas transactions to even more U.S. regulation.

CFTC shuts down banks' plan to avoid Dodd-Frank rules by arranging trades in the U.S., then booking them through overseas affiliates.

Treasury official who oversaw TARP would succeed Gary Gensler.