SIFMA expressed support for an MSRB proposal that would let certain public finance activities be performed outside an Office of Municipal Supervisory Jurisdiction and extend the exclusion period for remote work locations.

NYSE American and NYSE Texas proposed extending their mandatory regulatory halt frameworks to nine categories of issuer-related corporate actions in preparation for the industry's transition to 23-hour, five-day-a-week trading.

Better Markets argued that event contracts tied to corporate performance metrics are security-based swaps that must remain under SEC oversight.

FINRA warned member firms that use Microsoft Dynamics 365 or Microsoft Power Pages of an ongoing data extortion campaign by a group exploiting misconfigured portals to access sensitive customer and employee information, and threatening to publish the stolen data unless a ransom is paid.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously denied a broker-dealer's petition for review, upholding the SEC's refusal to modify a 2024 settled order from its off-channel communications recordkeeping sweep under Exchange Act Rule 17a-4.