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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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Five Potential Impacts of Semiannual SEC Reporting

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If you don’t run a public company, the idea of shifting from quarterly to semiannual financial reporting may sound like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem. There was nothing obviously broken about the system that generated...

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SEC Weighs in on Tariff Accounting, Just in Time

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Public companies have been asking a critical question since tariffs started reshaping their cost structures, which has largely gone unanswered: how are we supposed to account for all of this? Fortunately, they just received the closest thin...

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When “We’ll Lock It Up” Stops Working

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The AI industry spent years assuring everyone that its most valuable assets were safely behind walls. Last month, two incidents in five days challenged that assumption. A supply chain attack on Mercor, a $10 billion AI recruiting startup, g...

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