Federal Register 60-Day Collection Notice

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Federal Register / Vol. 91, No. 167 / Monday, August 31, 2026 / Notices

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Extension: Rule
489 and Form F–N
Upon Written Request, Copies Available
From: Securities and Exchange
Commission, Office of FOIA Services,
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC
20549–2736
Notice is hereby given that, pursuant
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), the Securities
and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) is soliciting comments
on the proposed collection of
information.
Rule 489 (17 CFR 230.489) under the
Securities Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77a et
seq.) requires foreign banks and foreign
insurance companies and holding
companies and finance subsidiaries of
foreign banks and foreign insurance
companies that are exempted from the
definition of ‘‘investment company’’ by
virtue of rules 3a–1 (17 CFR 270.3a–1),
3a–5 (17 CFR 270.3a–5), and 3a–6 (17
CFR 270.3a–6) under the Investment
Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a–1
et seq.) to file Form F–N (17 CFR
239.43) to appoint an agent for service
of process when making a public
offering of securities in the United
States. The information is collected so
that the Commission and private
plaintiffs may serve process on foreign
entities in actions and administrative
proceedings arising out of or based on
the offer or sales of securities in the
United States by such foreign entities.
The Commission received an average
of 20 Form F–N filings per year over the
last three years (2023–2025). The
Commission has previously estimated
that the total annual burden associated
with information collection and Form
F–N preparation and submission is one
hour per filing. Based on the
Commission’s experience with
disclosure documents generally, the
Commission continues to believe that
this estimate is appropriate. Thus, the
estimated total annual burden for rule
489 and Form F–N is 20 hours.
Estimates of average burden hours are
made solely for the purposes of the
Paperwork Reduction Act and are not
derived from a comprehensive or even
representative survey or study of the
costs of Commission rules and forms.
Compliance with the collection of
information requirements of rule 489
and Form F–N is mandatory to obtain
the benefit of the exemption. Responses

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to the collection of information will not
be kept confidential.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number.
Written comments are invited on: (a)
whether this proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the SEC,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the SEC’s estimate of the burden
imposed by the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and the assumptions
used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
through the use of automated, electronic
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Please direct your written comments
on this 60-Day Collection Notice to
Austin Gerig, Director/Chief Data
Officer, Securities and Exchange
Commission, c/o Tanya Ruttenberg via
email to PaperworkReductionAct@
sec.gov by October 30, 2026. There will
be a second opportunity to comment on
this SEC request following the Federal
Register publishing a 30-Day
Submission Notice.
Dated: August 26, 2026.
Sherry R. Haywood,
Assistant Secretary.
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Self-Regulatory Organizations; CME
Securities Clearing Inc.; Notice of
Filing of Proposed Rule Change To
Adopt Standards for Establishing
Cross-Margin Arrangements and
Adopt a Cross-Margin Arrangement
With Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
August 26, 2026.

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2
notice is hereby given that on August
18, 2026, CME Securities Clearing Inc.
(‘‘CMESC’’) filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).
2 17 CFR 240.19b–4.

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change described in Items I, II, and III
below, which Items have been
substantially prepared by CMESC.
CMESC filed the proposed rule change
pursuant to Section 19(b)(2) of the Act.3
The Commission is publishing this
notice to solicit comments on the
proposed rule change from interested
persons.
I. CMESC’s Statement of the Terms and
Substance of the Proposed Rule Change
The proposed rule change of CME
Securities Clearing Inc. (‘‘CMESC’’)
consists of three parts: (i) proposed
modifications to the CMESC Rulebook
(the ‘‘Rules’’) 4 relating to crossmargining arrangements; (ii)
modifications to certain CMESC clearing
risk management policies to cover crossmargining; and (iii) proposed
agreements to establish an initial crossmargining arrangement in accordance
with and subject to the Rules and
clearing risk management policies.
The proposed modifications to the
Rules set forth a framework under
which CMESC may establish a crossmargining arrangement with a clearing
organization registered with the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (‘‘CFTC’’) under the
Commodity Exchange Act (‘‘CEA’’) as a
derivatives clearing organization
(‘‘DCO’’). They include new Rule 514
(Cross-Margining) and new defined
terms in Rule 101 (Definitions), along
with related revisions proposed to (i)
the definitions in Rule 101 for
‘‘Independent User Account’’ and
‘‘Member Account;’’ (ii) Rules 405
(Default Management Process) and 1507
(Default Management); (iii) Rule 406
(Use and Application of Guaranty Fund,
Margin and Other Financial Resources);
(iv) Rule 412 (Corporation Authority
with Respect to Users of a Defaulting
Member); (v) Rule 502 (Form and Value
of Initial Margin; Collateral Value
Reports); (vi) Rule 506 (Outstanding
Exposure Settlement); (vii) Rule 508
(Daily Margin Report); (viii) Rule 509
(Settlement Cycles; Additional Margin);
(ix) renumber current Rule 514 (Using
the Corporation’s Systems) as Rule 515;
(x) Rule 602 (Submission of Transaction
Data); (xi) Rule 709 (Release of Clearing
Data); and (xii) Rule 902 (Ceasing to Act
for Member or User Based on Other
Grounds).
The clearing risk management
policies that CMESC proposes to revise
include the (i) CMESC Risk
3 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2).
4 Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings assigned to such
terms in the Rules, as applicable, available at
https://www.cmegroup.com/rulebook/CMESC/
CMESC%20Rulebook.pdf.

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