Democratic lawmakers are escalating a high stakes fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing the regulator ...

If we reward the staff only for bringing enforcement actions, then we have discouraged the staff from determining not to ...

Given the industry’s history of investor-harm... this turn raises troubling questions about the SEC’s priorities and ...

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has indicated a strong distaste for regulation by enforcement. Municipal securities enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission have totaled just three so ...

When Paul Atkins returned to the SEC this year to serve as its chair, he called for a "new day" — one, he said, in which "policymaking will be done through notice and comment rulemaking, not through ...

Three Democrats in the House of Representatives are asking US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins to ...

In May 2025, we sum m arized the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement activity during the first quarter of the new presidential administration. With the second ...

House Democrats accuse the SEC of pulling back crypto enforcement, citing dropped cases, political donations, and concerns ...

The transition from Gary Gensler to Paul Atkins led to a significant decline in enforcement cases across the board, including those involving crypto companies. Consulting company Cornerstone Research ...

The Zcash Foundation is the latest crypto organization to say the SEC has backed off, joining the likes of Coinbase and ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair continued steering the regulatory agency in a different direction than its previous enforcement-first policy toward the crypto industry. In an ...

Two recent SEC enforcement actions serve as a sharp reminder that Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) can face personal liability for what they do – or fail to do – in the course of regulatory ...