Key Highlights SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has approved a Cboe Global Markets rule change enabling cash-settled, European-style contracts tied directly to corporate SEC filings. Retail trading platform Robinhood is poised to be the first brokerage to offer the new contracts, with listings anticipated this month pending Cboe Clear U.S. registration. Chairman Atkins emphasized that the ...
Key Highlights The SEC is advancing a comprehensive digital asset framework, building on major reforms initiated after former Chair Gary Gensler’s departure in 2025. Key regulatory initiatives include a crypto custody framework, Regulation Crypto Assets, and a 5-year Innovation Exemption sandbox for decentralized trading. While SEC leadership aims to make the U.S. the global crypto ...
Key Highlights: The SEC is considering allowing state-chartered trust companies and regulated broker-dealers to provide crypto custody services under specific safeguards. A proposed exemption would permit authorized discretionary trading without strict custody requirements if client accounts remain protected. The proposal replaces the SECâs 2023 âSafeguarding Ruleâ proposal and is now subject to a 60-day public ...
Key Highlights: The SEC has proposed a rule to clarify how investment firms can custody and retain customer crypto assets. The proposal would establish requirements for crypto custody, recordkeeping, disclosures, industry practices, and audits. The 60-day public comment proposal would allow self-custody under certain circumstances and permit state-chartered trusts to act as custodians. SEC Proposes ...
Key Highlights SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as “Crypto Mom,” resigned effective October 2, 2025, leaving the commission with only two sitting members: Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda. Peirce’s departure removes the leader of the SEC’s Crypto Task Force at a critical juncture as the agency advances token-classification FAQs and proposed Regulation Crypto ...
Key Highlights The SEC dismissed enforcement actions against major cryptocurrency firms including Kraken, Ripple Labs, and Coinbase in early 2025 to preserve agency credibility ahead of a planned “180-degree change” in regulatory policy. Former Acting Chair Mark Uyeda stated that allowing litigators to argue positions in court that contradicted forthcoming Commission interpretations would have damaged ...
Key Highlights Moderate Senate Democrats led by Kirsten Gillibrand and Ruben Gallego pledged renewed bipartisan talks on the CLARITY Act after a 49-50 procedural vote failure. Prediction markets assign less than a 30% probability of passage within two years, while JPMorgan analysts see a narrow but existing legislative window. SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC ...
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins expressed gratitude to stakeholders across the administration, Congress, investors, and innovators who have advanced the CLARITY Act, while confirming the agency will proceed with regulatory action regardless of the legislation’s fate. “I have been unequivocal: with or without legislation, we will act decisively within the SEC’s statutory authority to deliver certainty ...
The Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act in a closely watched vote yesterday, prompting an immediate shift in industry focus toward regulatory action by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). With comprehensive market-structure legislation stalled, attention is turning to what the agencies can achieve under existing authority. ...
CLARITY Act Faces Critical Senate Vote as Industry Warns of Regulatory Vacuum With the Senate vote on the CLARITY Act just days away, Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone outlined the likely scenarios if the legislation fails to passâand he isn’t sugarcoating the odds of a quick legislative fix. Don’t Expect a Lame-Duck Save Asked whether ...
Wall Street is pushing the exchange-traded fund format into nearly every corner of finance. Investors can now find ETFs offering Bitcoin exposure, two- or three-times…
XRP forms an interest bully wedge pattern and signals an outbreak towards $ 3. The institutional interest increases with XRP ETF registrations and the ripple takeover of Hidden Road for $ 1.25 billion. Despite a volatile week, the XRP token stays stable at the wider cryptoma market at $ 2.13. The mood of the investors ...