This week brought a busy mix of enforcement, policy, and market-structure developments across the financial services landscape:
- The CFTC sued Wisconsin as part of its broader effort to defend federal authority over prediction markets and separately brought an insider trading case tied to Nicolás Maduro-related event contracts
- SEC Chairman Paul Atkins outlined the agency’s “ACT” strategy to advance, clarify, and transform the SEC’s regulatory framework
- FINRA sanctioned a broker-dealer for Regulation Best Interest failures and late private placement filings
- The OCC moved to clarify national bank fee authority and assert federal preemption over Illinois’ interchange fee law
- ESMA launched a call for evidence on the structure of European equity markets
- PwC’s latest financial wellness survey highlighted employee financial stress as an increasingly visible business and workforce risk
Read the full update from FiSolve here.
