On March 1, the National Futures Association (NFA) published Notice I-19-07 (Notice), alerting Members that April 1 will be the effective date for amendments to NFA’s Interpretive Notice entitled NFA Compliance Rules 2-9, 2-36 and 2-49: Information Systems Security Programs (Interpretive Notice). (For a discussion of such amendments, please refer to the January 11, 2019 edition of Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest.) The Notice reminded Members that certain cybersecurity incidents discovered on or after April 1 must be reported to NFA, as further set out in the updated Interpretive Notice.

The Notice is available here.