The SEC adopted final rules on (i) the mandatory clearing of transactions in Treasury securities and (ii) the application of the broker-dealer customer protection rule to Treasury securities.
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The CFTC and French financial regulators have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at facilitating cooperation and the exchange of information related to supervising covered institutions that operate on a cross-border basis in the United States and France.
In a white paper, the non-profit organization Digital Dollar Project concluded that a central bank digital currency, "rather than displacing the service offerings of established financial institutions providing cross-border remittance services . . . present[s] an opportunity to modernize operational processes and expand financial access."
The Congressional Research Service considered the potential impact of the expiration of the Division of Investment Management’s 2017 no-action letter permitting broker-dealers to receive cash payments for research services from investment managers subject to the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II without being subject to regulation as "investment advisers".
SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda warned that rapid change to securities regulations can have wide-spread consequences and that the benefits of globalizing capital markets can only be achieved through "responsible regulation."