Democratic legislators questioned the Secretary of Defense on promoting private equity investment in defense contracting and asked about reported plans to create an "Economic Defense Unit" to interact with private-equity firms.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Gemini Trust Company, LLC filed a Joint Motion asking the Southern District of New York to vacate a 2025 Consent Order that had imposed a $5 million civil monetary penalty and permanent injunction against the cryptocurrency exchange.

The CFTC sued a Google software engineer for allegedly misappropriating confidential, nonpublic data about Google's official Year in Search list for 2025 and using it to profit on two trading event contracts.

NYSE Arca proposed a rule change that adds a new Overnight Trading Session and revises the hours of its existing Early and Late sessions.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation agreed to connect its forthcoming tokenization service to the Stellar public blockchain, with tokenized assets expected to be available on the Stellar Network in the first half of 2027.