# Retail Foreign Exchange Transactions
> **US Securities and Exchange Commission** · Final rule. · Published 2013-07-16 · Effective 2013-07-16 · 78 FR 42439
## Document
- **Document number:** 2013-17015
- **Category:** final-rule
- **Agency:** US Securities and Exchange Commission
- **Federal Register citation:** 78 FR 42439
- **CFR reference:** 17 CFR 240
- **Publication date:** 2013-07-16
- **Effective date:** 2013-07-16
- **Docket:** Release No. 34-69964
## Abstract

The Commission is adopting a rule to permit a registered broker-dealer to engage in a retail forex business, provided that the broker-dealer complies with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the rules and regulations thereunder, and the rules of the self-regulatory organization(s) of which the broker-dealer is a member insofar as they are applicable to retail forex transactions. The Commission is adopting Rule 15b12-1 substantially in the form previously adopted as an interim final temporary rule and is providing that the rule will expire on July 31, 2016.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2013/07/16/2013-17015/retail-foreign-exchange-transactions)
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