The Treasury Department’s recent report on capital markets regulation includes a robust discussion of equity market structure issues. The report does not break new ground or raise issu...
The U.S. Treasury’s new Capital Markets Report recommends additional administrative requirements for regulatory actions by the SEC and the CFTC (the “Agencies”). If adopted, the pr...
In the wake of a highly-publicized cybersecurity breach involving the SEC’s EDGAR system, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has been in the hot seat at recent congressional hearings, fielding po...
On September 27, 2017, Congress passed the Fair Access to Investment Research Act of 2017 (the “FAIR Act”), sending the bill to President Trump for his signature. The FAIR Act instru...
A recent decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals effectively raises the standard for SEC review and approval of rule change filings submitted by national securities exchanges, FINRA...
In a much-anticipated action, on July 25 the SEC issued a Section 21(a) report of its investigation into an offering of digital tokens by “The DAO,” an unincorporated virtual organiza...
A revised version of the Financial CHOICE Act (commonly referred to as CHOICE Act 2.0) was passed by the House Financial Services Committee last week on a strictly partisan vote and will ...
FINRA has published a regulatory notice requesting comment on a long-awaited proposal to create a safe harbor that will exempt qualifying desk commentary from most of its equity and debt ...
On March 22, the SEC approved a rule amendment to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer securities transactions to two business days after the trade date (T+2) from...
On November 15, 2016, the SEC approved a plan to create a consolidated audit trail (the “CAT”) that will contain a record of order events for most equity and listed options transactio...
