On September 29th, the SEC adopted amendments to Rule 605 of the Securities Exchange Act, which requires disclosures for order executions in national market system (NMS) stocks. Under the rulemaking, Rule 605(a)(2) requires that every market center, broker, or dealer subject to Rule 605 reporting requirements produce a summary execution quality report. For more information, please see the Disclosure of Order Execution Information final rule. Per the amendments, Rule 605 requires reporting entities to provide the summary execution quality report on a website that is free and available to the public using the current versions of the CSV schema and the associated PDF renderer as published on the SEC’s website. Continue reading "SEC Issues 2025 Order Execution Summary (OES)..." »

On September 17th, the SEC approved rule changes by three national securities exchanges to adopt generic listing standards for exchange-traded products that hold spot commodities, such as digital assets. Consequently, the exchanges may list and trade Commodity-Based Trust Shares that satisfy the requirements of the approved generic listing standards without first submitting a proposed rule change to the SEC under Section 19(b) of the Exchange Act. Continue reading "SEC Adopts Generic Listing Standards for..." »