House Financial Services Committee member Young Kim introduced the "STOP Payments Fraud Act of 2026," a bill that would let banks delay access to deposited checks and incoming wire transfers they reasonably suspect involve fraud.

The SEC approved a rule change that codifies, revises or retires existing MSRB interpretive guidance on how dealers confirm inter-dealer municipal trades that cannot be matched through automated comparison at a registered clearing agency.

The SEC issued an exemptive order providing conditional relief from the U.S. Treasury securities central clearing mandate for certain inter-affiliate repurchase agreement transactions.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig told agricultural-industry leaders that the CFTC will not impose crypto-market innovations such as perpetual contracts and around-the-clock trading on traditional commodity markets.

The Managed Funds Association urged the SEC to pay for the Consolidated Audit Trail itself, rather than have broker-dealers and investors bear the cost.