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Category: SEC

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Look, No Hands: The 2026 Proxy Season After the SEC’s No-Action Pullback

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When the 2026 proxy season opened, corporate secretaries braced for the usual scramble over which shareholder proposals had to appear on the ballot and which could be left off. What most of them no longer had was the referee they had leaned...

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Five Takeaways from the SEC’s (Newly Annual) Regulatory Agenda, and What it Says About the Commission’s Priorities

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For decades, federal agencies have, with few exceptions, published the Unified Agenda twice each year: a list of every rule they plan to propose or finalize in the months ahead. It rarely makes headlines, but for anyone building out a discl...

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The SEC Rethinks What—and How Often—Public Companies Must Disclose

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The SEC is floating some of the biggest changes to its regulatory framework in two decades, all aimed at the same goal: making it cheaper and less burdensome to be a public company. The most eye-catching piece asks a question that would hav...

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Can the SEC Close the Barn Door on Climate Rules?

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On May 29, the SEC formally proposed rescinding its climate-related disclosure rules—the “Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” finalized back in March 2024. Those rules were among the Gensler-era SEC...

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Agencies Say “Ask Again Later” on Authority Over Prediction Markets

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Here’s a question that might be fun to bet on over at Kalshi or Polymarket: which regulator will oversee prediction markets this time next year—the CFTC or the states? Or maybe: will the SEC approve a prediction market-based ETF in 2026? Cu...

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