The SEC approved FINRA rule amendments expanding private-placement notice-filing exemptions and revising how underwriting compensation is calculated, aiming to ease capital formation and compliance costs for broker-dealers.

A prediction market sued New York officials in federal court to block the enforcement of state gambling laws against its federally regulated event contracts.

The National Credit Union Administration finalized 11 rule changes to remove obsolete and burdensome requirements as the first round of its Deregulation Project.

The SEC stayed a Nasdaq rule change, approved by its Division of Trading and Markets under delegated authority, that would require listed companies to maintain at least $5 million in Market Value of Listed Securities.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Utah ruled that the Commodity Exchange Act does not preempt the state's authority to enforce its anti-gambling laws against a designated contract market offering sports-related event contracts.