In this issue:

- SEC Approves NYSE and NASDAQ New Compensation Committee and Adviser Listing Standards

- SEC Extends No-Action Letter Permitting Broker-Dealers to Rely on Certain Investment Advisers to Conduct Customer Identification Program Obligations

- FINRA Issues Annual Regulatory and Examination Priorities Letter for 2013

- CFTC Issues Exemptive Order to ICE Clear Credit Permitting Commingling and Portfolio Margining of Cleared Credit Default Swaps and Security-Based Swaps

- Life Sciences Company Obtains Dismissal of Shareholder Class Action

- Delaware Supreme Court Refines Standard for Missed Pre-Trial Deadlines

- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Releases Final Mortgage Servicing Rules

- FTC Announces New Filing Thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino Pre-Merger Notifications

An excerpt from "FTC Announces New Filing Thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino Pre-Merger Notifications"

The Federal Trade Commission has announced the new notification thresholds for pre-merger notification reports that must be filed under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act). The notification thresholds are adjusted every year for inflation. The new thresholds go into effect on February 11, 2013.