In its annual survey, the North American Securities Administrators Association identified crypto scams and social media fraud as the most pressing threats to retail investors.

President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve and US digital asset stockpile.

A firm settled FINRA charges for anti-money laundering and supervisory deficiencies related to its failures to detect and report suspicious transactions, conduct independent AML testing and enforce adequate market manipulation controls.

According to a survey of brokers, trading firms and exchanges, global derivatives market trading will rise in 2025, but "mainly because of political instability and geopolitical conflict," rather than economic fundamentals.

A broker-dealer that "operates an alternative trading system for the trading of fixed income securities," settled FINRA charges for failing to properly report certain municipal securities transactions to the MSRB's Real-Time Transaction Reporting System.