The SEC solicited comment on a comprehensive review of the Consolidated Audit Trail and other data sources used in the regulation of U.S. securities markets.
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CFTC Chair Selig defended the agency's enforcement record and budget request amid mounting congressional concern over insider trading in oil, equity, and prediction markets.
SIFMA requested that the SEC grant exemptive relief from certain requirements under the Treasury clearing rule for inter-affiliate transactions.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told attendees at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings that both institutions must abandon mission creep and return to their core mandates of economic growth and poverty reduction.
The CFTC and the SEC permitted joint clearing members of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation that are dually registered as broker-dealers and futures commission merchants "to hold futures customer funds in a commingled customer account at FICC."