“The CFTC is locked in and ready to ship its rules for the new frontier of finance,” CFTC chair Mike Selig wrote in a post on X following the vote on Wednesday. The CFTC, on Friday, also published a no-action letter, giving certain software providers… Read More
President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration’s new innovation committee — a crowd of crypto CEOs and leaders of prediction market and AI companies — sits for a White House meeting on Wednesday, said people briefed on the planning. The… Read More
The source also said SEC staff have become increasingly focused on the agency’s legal authority to issue such broad relief, including whether it has completed sufficient economic analysis and followed the procedural steps required to justify an exemption. Industry insiders have been instructed that this… Read More
There are two timelines at war, now. First, the Senate’s own calendar is famously difficult to negotiate, with any contentious bill requiring days of floor time. Each passing hour narrows the legislation’s odds as just seven days remain before the recess, when senators will leave… Read More
This negotiation over the government conflict-of-interest piece had delayed progress on the Clarity Act for months — now potentially beyond the window in which it could most easily become law in 2026. This week’s release of the final working draft of Clarity included the first… Read More
U.S. Representative Maxine Waters may soon return to the helm of the House Financial Services Committee if Democrats perform as expected in the November elections, and she’s asking that the Department of Labor back away from a proposal that would encourage the managers of 401(k)… Read More
