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  • CFTC Swaps Report Update

    Date 29/09/2025

    CFTC's Weekly Swaps Report has been updated, and is now available: http://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/SwapsReports/index.htm.

  • New York Governor Hochul Announces Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris To Depart The Department Of Financial Services After Four Years Of Service - Governor Hochul Has Appointed Kaitlin Asrow As Acting Superintendent

    Date 29/09/2025

    Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that after four years of service, Superintendent Harris has decided to leave the Department of Financial Services. 

  • Harmonization With A Purpose, SEC Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw, SEC-CFTC Roundtable On Regulatory Harmonization Efforts, Sept. 29, 2025

    Date 29/09/2025

    Good afternoon and welcome to another roundtable—this one on regulatory harmonization efforts between the Commission and the CFTC.

    Harmonization sounds like a laudable objective.  This is perhaps unsurprising since harmony is, by definition, pleasing to the human ear.[1]  To the extent that the regulatory regimes of our two agencies could be better harmonized to eliminate unnecessary dissonance while still adhering to our agencies’ missions and our governing statutes, great!  But harmonization should never be an end in itself. 

    You have all likely heard the oft-repeated three-part mission of the Commission: to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation.  At the same time, the CFTC has its own mission statement: “to promote the integrity, resilience, and vibrancy of the U.S. derivatives markets through sound regulation.”[2]  When investigating paths forward regarding regulatory harmonization, these respective missions should be our north stars.  Without that guidance, efforts to harmonize can all too easily lead us astray.  

    For instance, to illustrate an admittedly extreme example, one way for our agencies to harmonize our approaches would be to eliminate all regulation in our respective markets.  That would, obviously, be absurd.  But I fear that less obvious absurdities might creep into our regulatory regimes if harmonization becomes the goal in and of itself.  Harmonization should never supplant our agencies’ respective missions and the mandates in our respective governing statutes.  And it should not be used as a means to elide meaningful differences in the markets that our agencies regulate.

    With that in mind, I urge you to keep our statutory missions—in particular investor protection—in mind as you consider opportunities for regulatory harmonization between our agencies.  Anything less would be a disservice to the markets we regulate and the investors who trust that these markets are safe for them to participate in.

    Thank you all for taking the time to join us today.


    [1] See HarmonyCambridge Dictionary (last visited Sept. 29, 2025) (defining “harmony” as “a pleasant musical sound made by different notes being played or sung at the same time”).

    [2] About the CFTC, CFTC (last visited Sept. 29, 2025).

  • A Return To Principles: Statement On ETF Share Class Relief, SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda, Sept. 29, 2025

    Date 29/09/2025

    Today, the Commission takes a long-overdue step toward modernizing our regulatory framework for investment companies that reflects the evolution of collective investment vehicles from being primarily daily-redeemable funds to exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

  • Harmonization: A New Era Of Collaboration Between The SEC And CFTC, Paul S. Atkins, Chairman, Remarks At The SEC-CFTC Joint Roundtable On Regulatory Harmonization Efforts, Sept. 29, 2025

    Date 29/09/2025

    Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Before I begin, I must remind you that the views that I express here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of the Securities and Exchange Commission or my fellow commissioners. I should also like to thank Acting Chairman Pham, as well as SEC and CFTC staff for organizing this joint roundtable with little advance notice, and of course, our stellar group of panelists for lending their time and expertise to today’s program.