In separate remarks before the SEC Investor Advisory Committee, SEC Chair Paul Atkins and Commissioner Hester Peirce offered divergent views on proxy voting, non-GAAP disclosures and arbitration.

At an SEC Conference on Emerging Trends in Asset Management, Commissioner Hester M. Peirce focused on expanding retail investor access to private markets and crypto assets; SEC Investment Management Division Director Natasha Vij Greiner cited the importance of the SEC's exemptive authority for enabling innovation.

A firm settled FINRA charges for overstating advertised trade volume and for related supervisory failures.

At the US Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Forum, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Rodney E. Hood outlined a four-part agenda aimed at advancing a "resurgent" banking system.

The SEC requested comment on whether the current definition of a "foreign private issuer" should be amended to account for "significant changes in that population since 2003" and to better "reflect the issuers that the Commission intended to benefit."