On September 2, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Trading and Markets and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Divisions of Market Oversight and Clearing and Risk (Divisions) issued a...more
On September 5, the SEC and CFTC issued a joint statement outlining new regulatory coordination as the markets for securities and non-securities become increasingly intertwined. SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Acting Chair...more
Securities regulators signaled an openness to “innovation exemptions” allowing U.S. perpetual contracts and leveraged crypto markets to become competitive with offshore markets....more
On September 2, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a Joint Staff Statement regarding the listing of leveraged, margined, or financed spot...more
On September 2, 2025, the staffs of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a joint statement regarding trading of certain spot crypto asset products on regulated...more
U.S. Developments - U.S. Federal Regulatory Developments - CFTC, FinCEN, and SEC Leaders Release a Join Statement on Digital Assets - On October 11, 2019, the heads of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”),...more
In line with its previous guidance, FINRA has granted broker-dealer (but not custodian) status to a digital asset platform. In a follow-up to the July 2019 SEC and FINRA joint staff statement (Joint Statement) clarifying...more
Editor's Note - In This Issue. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) granted no-action relief for fund boards; the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) announced the rescission of the “systemically important...more