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Regulation
Bank of England stablecoin rethink tests UK payments strategy
The Bank of England's stablecoin rethink is less about crypto sentiment than whether the UK wants regulated payment-token issuance to remain onshore.
SEC reset keeps adviser, retail-fraud cases in focus
Paul Atkins says the SEC will judge enforcement by quality, but David Woodcock's early signals suggest adviser misconduct and retail fraud still sit near the top of the docket.
Hong Kong SFC compensation shift raises misconduct costs
Hong Kong SFC compensation shift is turning enforcement into investor redress, raising the expected cost of misconduct for auditors, brokers and issuers.
Trump crypto rollback shifts oversight away from state regulators
State regulators have long handled crypto complaints and licensing. A federal shift could simplify compliance for large firms while thinning consumer-protection backstops.
Atkins' off-channel critique signals a narrower SEC playbook
Paul Atkins' attack on the SEC's off-channel sweep suggests Wall Street may face fewer broad settlement drives, but tougher triage around investor harm.
Interactive Brokers widens prediction markets as SEC delays ETF wrapper
Interactive Brokers has rolled Kalshi, CME Group and ForecastEx contracts into one interface just as the SEC delays 24 prediction-market ETFs. The split timing shows retail access is moving faster than Washington's agreement on how the asset class should be packaged and supervised.
Trump trade disclosures turn ethics into a market-trust test
A filing showing thousands of trades in an account held in Donald Trump's name sharpens the case that disclosure rules are lagging modern market-moving politics.
Adani SEC deal and DOJ retreat narrow legal overhang
An $18 million SEC settlement and a reported DOJ pullback cut one of the Adani group's biggest U.S. risk discounts, even before any court sign-off.
Warren spotlights $75m crypto loan structure as SEC debate widens
Elizabeth Warren's scrutiny of a $75 million loan backed by WLFI tokens shows how crypto regulation may shift toward collateral quality, disclosure and conflicts.
North Carolina stablecoin bill pushes crypto rulemaking beyond Washington
North Carolina's stablecoin bill is moving through the House with reserve, disclosure and licensing rules that point to a more fragmented US crypto regime.
Russia moves to widen legal crypto trades under state oversight
A first-reading vote in Russia's State Duma points to broader legal crypto trading, but through licensed channels and with tighter central-bank control.
SEC enforcement chief signals fraud focus, room for honest mistakes
David Woodcock's first SEC speech paired a fraud-first agenda with a stated willingness to distinguish investor-harming deception from honest mistakes.
Trump trust Coinbase buys sharpen crypto conflict questions in Washington
Ethics filings showed Donald Trump's family trust bought Coinbase, Strategy and other crypto-linked stocks in Q1, sharpening conflict questions around a friendlier policy tone in Washington.
House panel presses Trump to fill CFTC as crypto agenda grows
House Agriculture leaders pressed Donald Trump to fill four empty CFTC seats as the agency's role in crypto market structure and prediction markets widens.
Senate panel advances CLARITY Act in bipartisan crypto vote
The Senate Banking Committee voted 15-9 to advance the CLARITY Act, sending a long-debated crypto market-structure bill to the floor and sharpening the fight over how the SEC and CFTC would divide oversight.
FTC probe of Arm (ARM) licensing model clouds valuation case
A reported US antitrust probe into Arm's chip-licensing practices adds regulatory risk to a business investors have priced as core semiconductor infrastructure.
CME, ICE press Washington to tighten oversight of Hyperliquid
CME Group and ICE are pressing U.S. regulators to scrutinize Hyperliquid after a surge in oil-linked trading sharpened concerns over manipulation and sanctions risk.
Newsom targets SaaS with proposed 7.25% California software tax
Newsom's plan to tax cloud software sales at 7.25 per cent would widen California's sales tax base and add pricing risk for SaaS vendors.
California SaaS tax proposal adds new risk for cloud-software stocks
Newsom's bid to tax digital software at 7.25 per cent would reach beyond Sacramento's budget math. For software and AI investors, the question is how much vendors can pass through and how much valuation premium gets shaved by policy risk.
Suspicious prediction-market trades draw CFTC scrutiny as volumes swell
Suspicious trading on Kalshi and Polymarket is becoming a core market-structure problem as volumes rise and the CFTC signals tougher oversight.
CFTC Issues Blanket No-Action Letter on Prediction Market Data Reporting
The CFTC issued Letter No. 26-14 on Tuesday, granting 19 prediction market platforms — including Polymarket US and Kalshi — relief from swap data reporting obligations, as the agency presses its jurisdictional claim against five state-level gambling regulators.
Senate Panel Gears Up for Clarity Act Markup as Amendment Count Tops 100
The Senate Banking Committee will begin marking up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on Thursday with more than 100 amendments filed to the 309-page bill, testing whether the bipartisan coalition that carried crypto legislation through the House can survive the Senate.
SEC, CFTC align on six enforcement fronts
SEC and CFTC launched coordination across six regulatory fronts to eliminate duplicative enforcement, CFTC Chair Michael Selig said.
Prosecutors charge 30 in BigLaw M&A insider trading ring
Federal prosecutors have charged 30 defendants in a decadelong insider trading scheme that saw M&A lawyers at six major US law firms steal confidential deal data and funnel it to traders.
HarrisX poll: 52% back CLARITY Act ahead of May 14 Senate markup
A HarrisX survey of 2,008 registered voters shows 52 per cent support the CLARITY Act, with 70 per cent saying the US should already have passed crypto legislation. The poll lands days before a Senate Banking Committee markup that could determine the bill's fate.
