The SEC approved guidelines on short selling as early as 2018. It now says it is pushing to align its rules with major Asian markets.
September 8, 2023US equities and corporate bond markets will move to T+1 on 28 May 2024. The same implementation date is proposed for municipal securities.
March 31, 2023SEC commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda say the 28 May 2024 effective date does not leave enough time for the market to transition.
February 16, 2023A House committee says the SEC should introduce a liquidity rule for clearing brokers and FINRA should establish liquidity planning requirements.
June 28, 2022Brokers will have to send orders from retail investors to "open and transparent" auctions and meet stronger best execution obligations.
June 10, 2022In January 2021, TradeZero America halted trading in three meme stocks for about 10 minutes, but later told investors it had resisted instructions from its clearing broker to do so.
June 1, 2022SEC staff concluded that US markets functioned well and dislocations caused by short-selling were not the main cause of the extreme volatility in GameStop.
October 26, 2021The EBA, ESMA and EIOPA warn of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, deteriorating credit quality, and possible exuberance in markets.
September 13, 2021Gary Gensler was sworn in as the new SEC chairman three days after the US Senate voted to approve his nomination.
April 19, 2021Industry veteran Tony Freeman discusses how a move to one-day settlement in the US will impact investors in Asia.
March 2, 2021