SEC approval of Cboe BZX rules on Oct. 2 opens a listing path for Volatility Shares funds that aim to triple daily Bitcoin and Ether futures returns. Shares cannot trade until a separate S-1 registration takes effect, and that step decides when brokers can offer them.
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SEC proposals approved Wednesday would give registered investment advisors much more room to charge performance fees on capital gains in client accounts. Interval-fund changes and a credential route to accredited status widen what retail clients can buy, and the fee rule changes how advisors get paid for it.
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His reversal from "manageable" to "insane" hands legislatures a fiscal instrument. But a levy on use is paid by adopters, and the only measured job damage so far sits at entry level.
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Mark Zuckerberg rejected Dario Amodei's call for a coordinated AI slowdown, telling Joanna Stern each lab should delay its own releases when it sees problems. Until the rival labs' testing body launches, reportedly by the end of 2026 or early 2027, each lab sets its own release timing.
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The startup says Anchor 3.0 caught more than 90 percent of violations in a test it published itself, at under a 500th of the cost of a frontier call, and the messages it misses stay the firm's problem.
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Three advisors took transition advice in 2023 from a law firm Ameriprise recommended to them, then faced arbitration claims from that same firm after they moved to LPL. LPL wants the 2023 file.
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The week opened with three rival AI chiefs nodding along to Dario Amodei's plan for slowing development and closed with the White House calling AI risk a hoax. For anyone buying models, the only enforceable safety text is still the contract.
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The approved rule ends the duty to log weekend bartending shifts and leaves each firm to decide which outside businesses are investment-related. The SEC calls its own standard a floor, and the red-flag duty survives.
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Wired reports the FINRA-style oversight framework has sat in limbo since executives called Trump in August. Product teams are left with an embedded-auditor bill and no House voting days before the midterms.
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Demis Hassabis proposed the organization in July as a government-overseen public-private partnership funded by the AI companies themselves, and the people describing the talks say they continue whether or not the Trump administration joins.
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Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have had working groups meeting since July on a safety standards body they would run themselves, after the White House route stalled. The only cost anyone has published is a 30-day review.
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AMC's chief executive called Robinhood's on-chain version of its stock vile. In the design Fortune describes, Robinhood buys the real shares and Alpaca keeps the book, while the customer holds a contract without voting rights.
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Bank fee hikes on trust work are a real exit signal for advisors with mass-affluent books, but the asset share it moves is 0.6 percentage points a year, and most of the RIA channel's headcount came from somewhere other than banks.
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A reported August phone call from Mark Zuckerberg is the latest time a binding AI review has come back voluntary. For teams planning compliance, the live choice is an industry-funded reviewer or a film-style ratings scheme, and both let the model ship.
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The plan is far enough along inside the White House to draw a chief executive's phone call, which makes third-party model review a planning assumption for compliance teams rather than a hypothetical. The design remains open.
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Allison Parent spent nearly a decade at GFMA speaking for major banks on cross-border market structure, and Ondo has hired her to work those same rooms on behalf of the $1 billion of tokenized stock it already runs.
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The prior SEC brought 95 recordkeeping actions carrying $2.3 billion in penalties, roughly $24 million apiece, while FINRA's 2026 oversight report keeps finding the same retention and supervision gaps through exams that produce no published number.
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Nearly 40 action items, most designated deregulatory, and a majority that were absent from last year's list. Compliance calendars and capital-formation routes are both about to move.
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Robert DeNault and Wharton's Daniel Taylor argue SONAR-style tools are built for the wrong insider. In prediction markets, the insider can know the contract's answer.
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A joint comment filed on the last day of the window argues Reg NMS Rule 611's national benchmark cannot govern trades that settle at a block boundary. The SEC now decides.
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