ITEM 1: Treasury Clearing Standards for Membership Requirements and Risk Management

OFFICE: Division of Trading and Markets

STAFF: Haoxiang Zhu, David Saltiel, Andrea Orr, Jeff Mooney, and Elizabeth Fitzgerald.

The Commission will consider whether to propose amendments to the standards applicable to covered clearing agencies of the U.S. Treasury securities regarding their membership requirements and risk management and whether to propose amendments to the broker-dealer customer protection rule regarding margin held at covered clearing agencies of U.S. Treasury securities

For further information, please contact Elizabeth Fitzgerald in the Division of Trading and Markets at (202) 551-6036.