Atkins touched on familiar themes, including sandboxes for tokenized security trading and a more streamlined IPO process.
ETF
DERA's chief economist Joshua White said active ETFs now "rival passive funds in number" and represent a "shift toward more actively managed strategies."
The SEC approved Dimensional Fund Advisors to offer dual-class funds, allowing open-end funds to have both ETF and mutual fund share classes.
The reforms would largely preserve the current UK short-selling framework while reflecting the updates of the SSR 2025 and introducing targeted operational changes.
The move streamlines exchange-traded product listings, paving way for faster approval of digital asset and commodity funds, but shifting oversight burdens to exchanges.
Our in-brief roundup also includes Bristol Myers Squibb and BioNTech in a drug partnership, Reddit suing Anthropic for using its data, and BlackRock being removed from Texas blacklist.
Other news includes the CFPB moving to scrap Biden-era medical debt credit reporting exemption, the EU reciprocally seizing billions of Russian funds, and the DOJ accusing CVS, Humana, Elevance of paying kickbacks.
Other news includes an EU fine against Meta and Google, massive ESG investment outflows, and the OCC and FDIC signaling crypto regulation overhauls.