
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (Merrill Lynch), a registered Futures Commission Merchant, for failing to supervise its employees' and agents' handling of the firm's response to a CME Group Inc. (CME Group) Investigation into futures block trade execution and recordkeeping practices at Bank of America, a Merrill Lynch affiliate. For more info visit http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7615-17