The term “Securities laws” covers varied facets of transactions and other dealings with securities. It is quite obvious yet understood that security laws include both federal and state level regulations by purely governmental regulatory agencies, though oftentimes it may also include listing requirements of exchanges like New York Stock Exchange and disciplines of self regulatory firms like FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority). On federal level, the basic securities law involve SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). In addition, futures as well as some panoramas of derivatives are monitored by the CFTC (Federal commodity futures trading commission). In a whole, each regulation is disseminated by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the regulations adopted by the National association of securities dealers Inc. and the several stock exchanges.