Several state Attorneys General accused three ratings agencies of downgrading fossil fuel companies and energy-producing states based on speculative social criteria that violated their own stated methodologies and concealed material conflicts of interest.

The United States and the CFTC sued Wisconsin to block the enforcement of the state's gambling laws against five CFTC-regulated prediction market platforms.

House Financial Services Committee Vice Chair Bill Huizenga argued that capital requirements must be calibrated to actual risk and must not restrict lending to ordinary Americans.

The SEC instituted proceedings to determine whether to approve FINRA amendments on underwriting compensation valuations and private placement exemptions.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen warned that a recent SEC interpretive release, which exempts from securities laws certain crypto transactions, strips away longstanding investor protections while delivering a windfall to the crypto industry and the Trump family.