SEC July 1, 2026
Federal agencies long regarded as pillars of nonpartisan stability are facing an identity crisis after the Supreme Court this week swept away nearly a century of precedent limiting presidential power.
SEC June 25, 2026
A Mooresville, NC, man and his lawyer are facing a lawsuit from the SEC, claiming they fraudulently obtained 239 million shares of stock from a company that took over Napster, a pioneer of peer-to-peer music sharing.
SEC June 15, 2026
Gary Gensler, overseer of Wall Street for significant parts of the last two decades, has a message for anyone arguing sports betting is a matter for federal financial regulators: They’re wrong.
SEC June 12, 2026
Clayton, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump's first term.
SEC June 12, 2026
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has been a critic of the rule since its inception, dissenting against it when he was a Republican commissioner.
SEC June 2, 2026
A proposed settlement between Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission to end the agency’s Twitter Inc. stake lawsuit came after almost a year of negotiations, attorneys said.
SEC May 21, 2026
The top U.S. securities regulator is delaying the launch of a wave of novel exchange-traded funds that would let investors wager on events such as elections and economic data.
SEC May 19, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to release its so-called innovation exemption for tokenized stocks as soon as this week, creating a new framework for betting on the fortunes of publicly traded companies.
SEC May 14, 2026
The proposed settlement was reached earlier this month to resolve SEC claims that Elon Musk missed the deadline to disclose that he’d accumulated more than 5% of Twitter’s stock.
SEC May 5, 2026
Elon Musk agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to properly disclose his growing stake in the social media company.
SEC April 10, 2026
David Woodcock will be the new regulatory enforcer for the SEC, and he will take a multimillion-dollar pay cut for the privilege.
Auditing March 4, 2026
In 2025, the SEC brought 68% fewer accounting and auditing actions than in 2024, and the PCAOB finalized 27% fewer actions over the same period, according to Cornerstone Research.