The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance announced that it will no longer respond to any shareholder proposal no-action requests, leaving public companies and shareholder proponents to make their own judgements.

The American Bankers Association and the Consumer Bankers Association urged House Financial Services Committee Democrats to adopt a nationally harmonized, risk-based federal framework for regulating AI in financial services that preempts state laws.

The Treasury Department proposed a rule defining when issuing, offering, or selling a payment stablecoin in the United States is unlawful under the GENIUS Act, implementing statutory prohibitions that restrict issuance to permitted payment stablecoin issuers and qualifying foreign issuers.

The CFTC scheduled the inaugural meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee for August 20, 2026, to discuss crypto asset regulation, AI, and prediction markets.

The Colorado Attorney General proposed rules to implement the state's new Automated Decision-Making Technology Act, shifting the regulatory framework for AI from mandatory risk management to transparency and consumer disclosure.