Resources
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GRIP Extra: SEC names new enforcement chief, DOJ opens fraud division
Our in-brief roundup of notable stories from the last week.
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SEC Speaks 2026: Focus on materiality and investor harm
The agency signaled that it intends to rely less on enforcement to define policy and more on clear, workable rules to reduce regulatory complexity and improve coordination across regulators.
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RegTech 2026: Data velocity vs governance friction
This panel discussed: If data is capital and compute is trust, is your governance architecture accelerating capital velocity, or quietly slowing it down?
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Sir Ian Cheshire announced as preferred candidate to chair Ofcom
Announcement comes at the same time the government has stepped up efforts to ensure the online safety and wellbeing of UK individuals, especially children.
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Rebuilding the engine in flight: Managing transition risk in reporting reform
RegTech Conference 2026: This panel looked at where transition risk concentrates when old and new regimes run in parallel.
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Podcast: Valerie Mirko on FINRA, due process and her testimony before the House Financial Services Committee
Valerie Mirko discusses how the SEC’s enforcement agenda is evolving under Chair Paul Atkins, and much more.
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Tom Hardin discusses his rise and fall as ‘Tipper X’
Hardin wore a covert wire over 40 times for the FBI, helping them conduct “Operation Perfect Hedge,” the largest insider trading investigation in a generation. He told GRIP about his book and lessons learned.
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FINRA’s future: Reform, absorption, or something in between
As FINRA modernizes into a data-driven, system-embedded overseer, the real question is no longer whether it will survive, but whether it is quietly becoming indistinguishable from the SEC.