The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a final rule simplifying licensing requirements for corporate activities and transactions involving national banks and federal savings associations with less than $30 billion in total assets.

Several financial industry and business groups urged Congress to pass the "Generating Retirement Ownership Through Long-Term Holding Act," a bill that would allow tax-deferred reinvestment of mutual fund capital gains distributions.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins supported expanded retail investor access to private markets while emphasizing the need for commensurate investor protections.

A firm settled FINRA charges for failing to develop and implement an anti-money laundering program reasonably designed to detect and report suspicious transactions involving low-priced securities.

Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren asked SEC Chair Paul Atkins to "promptly release" the agency’s Fiscal Year 2025 enforcement data.