This week’s developments pointed to a regulatory environment focused on enforcement priorities, early remediation, and market oversight.

• The SEC’s new Enforcement Director outlined a back-to-basics agenda centered on investor protection, insider trading, market manipulation, and private fund risks
• FINRA highlighted a more preventative compliance approach through its expanded Rapid Remediation initiative
• The CFTC continued its push to defend exclusive federal authority over prediction markets
• ESMA flagged governance and control-function weaknesses in its latest supervisory review of fund managers
• New reports on financial services talent and concentrated AI funding underscored how workforce pressures and capital flows are continuing to reshape the broader industry

Read the full update from FiSolve here.