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Remarks At The SEC Roundtable On 24-Hour Trading, SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda, Washington D.C. [Delivered Virtually], Sept. 17, 2026

Date 17/09/2026

Good morning and welcome to the SEC’s roundtable on 24-Hour Trading. Thanks to those of you who are here in person at SEC headquarters as well as to those who are watching over our livestream. And a special thank you to the participants, who have taken the time to prepare and present views from a variety of different perspectives on what it will take to prepare for trading in a round-the-clock environment.

Remarks At The 24-Hour Trading Roundtable, Paul S. Atkins, SEC Chairman, Washington D.C., Sept. 17, 2026

Date 17/09/2026

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for joining us today to discuss preparations for expanding 24-hour trading in the U.S. equities markets. Before sharing a few reflections, I must note that the views I express here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the SEC as an institution or of my fellow Commissioners.

Remarks At The Roundtable On Preparations For 24‑Hour Trading, Jamie Selway, Director, SEC Division Of Trading And Markets, Washington D.C., Sept. 17, 2026

Date 17/09/2026

Thank you, Chairman Atkins, and Commissioners Peirce and Uyeda, for your remarks this morning and for your support of industry and Division efforts to prepare for a 24-hour marketplace. Once again, I thank Commissioner Peirce for her idea of a roundtable on a timely, relevant topic. I wish Commissioner Peirce nothing but the best as she winds down an impressive and impactful tenure as a regulator and begins an honorable new chapter as a teacher. But I selfishly hope that she will still find time to think of compelling roundtable ideas for her old friends at the Division.

CFTC Staff Issues No-Action Position To Providers Of Passive Software

Date 17/09/2026

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Market Participants Division today announced it has issued a no-action position for the benefit of providers of passive software. The position is similar to that provided in Staff Letter 26-09 and now is broadly available to such providers.

Slumber Number: Innovation Exemption Statement, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce, Sept. 17, 2026

Date 17/09/2026

The innovation exemption has arrived. Today, the Commission issued an order containing time-limited exemptions designed to permit onchain trading of stocks listed on major U.S. exchanges. Adapting the Commission’s rules to new technologies is hard work, and I commend the Division of Trading and Markets, the Crypto Task Force, and other staff for their work on these exemptions. These exemptions enable market participants to experiment to be prepared for a future in which trading tokenized stocks onchain is commonplace. Taken together with the Division of Trading and Market’s April statement on interfaces used to prepare transactions in crypto asset securities, today’s action is also a major step forward in allowing individuals greater personal autonomy to own and trade their own assets without the need for unnecessary intermediaries. 

Bank Of England - Monetary Policy Committee Dates For 2027 - 2027 Confirmed Dates

Date 17/09/2026

In line with the commitment made following the 2014 Warsh Review, the Bank of England publishes annually, after a delay of eight years, key MPC documentation.

Bitcoin Faces Twin Headwinds As Fed Turns Hawkish And CLARITY Act Stalls: Market Comment, James Butterfill, Head of Research, CoinShares

Date 17/09/2026

James Butterfill, Head of Research at CoinShares said:

The outlook for crypto has become more challenging over the past week, with two main headwinds now limiting the prospect of a meaningful breakout in Bitcoin prices, namely the setback to the CLARITY Act and a more hawkish Federal Reserve. Neither changes the longer-term thesis, but both push the timing of a more sustained recovery further out.

SEC Issues “Innovation Exemption” To Facilitate The Trading Of Tokenized NMS Stock And Request For Comment

Date 17/09/2026

The Securities and Exchange Commission today issued an order granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to Tokenized Securities Venues each a “TSV” from the definition of “exchange” in the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) to trade tokenized National Market System (NMS) stock using innovative permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools (together “AMM Liquidity Pools”).

Statement On The Innovation Exemption: A Bridge Toward Durable Rulemaking, Paul S. Atkins, SEC Chairman, Sept. 17, 2026

Date 17/09/2026

A little over a year ago, the SEC launched “Project Crypto” with the goal of modernizing the rules and regulations under the Federal securities laws to enable America’s financial markets to move onchain. Earlier this week, Congress was unsuccessful in advancing the CLARITY Act despite the tireless efforts of many. So today, the Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a significant step forward, within its statutory authority, to bring America’s capital markets into the digital age by facilitating onchain trading of certain tokenized stocks through the “Innovation Exemption.”

Statement On The Innovation Exemption, SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda, Sept. 17, 2026

Date 17/09/2026

Tokenization has the potential to modernize core market infrastructure functions, such as issuance, trading, transfer, settlement, and recording ownership, with the potential to reduce costs, enhance transparency, and expand liquidity. This may be particularly true for assets that have historically been less liquid. The consideration and evaluation of new approaches, technologies, and ideas regarding the operation of the securities markets are nothing new. In fact, fostering the evolution of processes that support the capital markets has long been a part of the SEC’s mission to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and promote capital formation.