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The SEC just opened the floodgates to fraud

If you doubt that President Donald Trump is successfully trashing the administrative state, consider a rule change that the Securities and Exchange Commission announced with little fanfare that took ...
Hester Peirce’s Oct. 2 resignation has left Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda as the SEC’s two listed commissioners. A new rule ...
Hester Peirce leaves the SEC for academia, reducing the commission to two Republican members with no Democratic ...
Paired with its rule proposals, the SEC also issued five notices seeking comment on additional ways for individuals to ...
SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda discusses the SEC's push to rethink core parts of market structure, including where stocks trade, how prices are discovered, company reporting frequency, shareholder voting ...
SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda said that the agency dropped many cases against crypto companies in early 2025 to avoid potential credibility problems in court. Mark Uyeda, who served as acting chair of ...
Hester Peirce plans to leave the Securities and Exchange Commission on Oct. 2, leaving Chair Paul Atkins and Commissioner ...
Should investment advisers be allowed to hold clients’ crypto assets themselves? The SEC has proposed a new cryptocurrency ...
On September 17, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) issued an order granting temporary, conditional ...
The SEC proposed a tailored framework for the custody of crypto assets by registered investment advisers and regulated funds. The SEC also ...
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as 'Crypto Mom,' resigns after eight years as the agency's most prominent digital asset ...