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Stock futures rose Monday morning as Wall Street looked to stretch last week's rebound.

The brokerage industry is exploring alternatives to payment for order flow as SEC chair Gary Gensler takes aim at the practice.

Exchange executives are wondering if tough times are ahead as SEC Chair Gary Gensler speaks at a key conference.

SEC Chair Gary Gensler will speak at a conference on Wednesday. Market participants wonder whether he'll float a few rule proposals at the event.

The proposals come after the SEC in March debuted rules that would require publicly traded companies to disclose how climate change risks affect their business.

The U.S. has dropped the ball on crypto regulation, according to Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce.

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission will likely encounter questions from several House members who aren’t happy with his regulatory agenda.

Crypto's meltdown last week, sparked in part by the implosion of a major stablecoin, has regulators refocusing on the need to craft federal rules for the industry.

It’s been a wild week in crypto, even by crypto standards.

Wall Street’s biggest financial institutions are stepping away from blank-check firms after the SEC issues new guidelines.

Investors blame US regulators for triggering broad market declines with delisting announcements.

The top Wall Street regulator is adding manpower to police fraud in the booming cryptocurrency industry.

The SEC announced Tuesday that it is almost doubling its staff responsible for protecting investors in cryptocurrency markets.

The crypto industry has been pressing for more oversight by the CFTC rather than the SEC. A new bipartisan House proposal would do just that.

The owner of a New York-based hedge fund that collapsed when it defaulted on margin calls has been arrested on charges alleging he defrauded leading global investment banks and brokerages.

Some big-name Chinese stocks including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Baidu Inc. are facing the prospect of getting booted from the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq if they refuse to let U.S. regulators see their financial audits. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has started the process, compelled by a 2020 law, and although it has years to play out, investors have started to pay attention. As has China, which has moved to potentially clear a big hurdle that had stymied U.S. regulat

One in five Americans has invested in, traded or otherwise used cryptocurrency, a new NBC News polls shows.

The SEC debuted new rules for SPACs that would amount of one of the broadest attempts to date at cracking down on blank-check companies.

The SEC on Monday proposed rules that would force more trading firms to register as dealers and open their books to far greater regulatory oversight.

The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a rule around climate disclosures companies make to their investors. It could have far-reaching effects.

New SEC proposal requires companies to spell out bottom-line impacts of everything from floods to rising fuel costs.

The SEC proposed rules that would require companies to report on how their operations affect the climate and the formation of carbon emissions.

Under the rule proposals, companies would be required to share information about their greenhouse gas emissions as well as climate-related risks faced by their businesses.

SEC Commissioners will be meeting Monday to propose rules to enhance disclosures regarding climate-related risks.

President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing agencies to coordinate efforts to regulate cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.

Cybersecurity is only a small part of the ambitious regulatory agenda SEC Chair Gary Gensler has laid out.

A bout of extreme cold last winter saddled Meta Platforms with additional energy costs, the company told federal regulators in a filing made public last week.

The SEC on Friday voted to propose a new rule that would tell investors more about short sales.

Wall Street's top supervisor said the proposed changes would require investors to collect and submit certain short sale data to the SEC each month.

Regulators are trying to increase transparency among private-equity investments and limit the pool of 401(k) plan investors who can gain access.

While the SEC has generally steered clear of regulating the $18 trillion field of private funds - basically hedge funds, private equity and venture capital - it is proposing basic investor disclosure rules for the field.

The federal agency is meeting on Wednesday to consider new rules for private funds.

"This is one of the largest regulatory agendas we have seen from the SEC in many years," said one former SEC official.

The MicroStrategy CEO told CNBC on Wednesday he's looking for "clear, bright line definitions" around a digital security versus a digital currency.

Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, aims to protect investors from financial loss and data theft.

"Statistics usually show that investing is good, but trading often is not," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told CNBC's Jim Cramer.

The regulator is considering tighter disclosure deadlines for hedge funds growing sizable stakes in companies.

SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said he wants more transparency from the country's largest private companies and the private firms that fund them.

It’s going to be a busy year for financial reformers. Plus a selection of the columnist’s best work in 2021.

Wall Street delivered another strong year in 2021, as a spike in consumer demand fueled by the reopening of the global economy pumped up corporate profits.

In a recent interview with NPR, S.E.C. Chairman Gary Gensler says one of his top priorities is protecting amateur investors as his agency unveils a number of tough new rules and investigations.

The SEC announced Friday that JPMorgan Securities admitted to bookkeeping failures and agreed to pay $125 million to settle the charges.

The SEC is considering stronger insider trading rules to ensure CEOs aren't buying and selling shares when informed by non-public info.

Among the ideas Gensler pitched were new rules around marketing practices, tougher disclosure requirements and liability obligations.

Spring-loaded grants allow executives to enrich themselves at the investing public’s expense. Regulators are right to get tougher on the practice.

In an interview with NPR, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said he was aiming to unveil tougher rules for a hot investment crazed called SPACs by early next year.

Regulators including the SEC are investigating a planned merger between a shell company and former President Trump's social media startup.

Today the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to finalize rules to implement the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act.

Warren cited reports that Digital World Acquisition Corp., which plans to merge with Trump's social media company, may have committed securities violations.

In the cryptocurrency world, which gets likened to the Wild West of financial markets, one of the industry’s major players is asking for a sheriff.

As the biggest cryptocurrencies flirt with record highs in value, they are increasingly becoming bigger sources of revenue for charities.

A key date is around the corner for a spot bitcoin ETF, but the crypto community isn’t optimistic about the likelihood of a debut any time soon.

Washington policymakers will soon start deciding on new rules for cryptocurrencies, setting up a fight between supporters and critics of the $2.5 trillion market.

The SPAC market could be staging a comeback with issuance hitting an eight-month high as the industry continues to ride out regulatory challenges.

The Biden administration is calling on Congress to pass legislation that would strengthen government regulation of stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency that has soared in popularity in the past year.

In a long-awaited report, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets found, when regulated, stablecoins could transform payments.

Cryptocurrency has officially gone to the dogs.

Whether you love cryptocurrencies or hate the very idea of them, they’re becoming more mainstream by the day.

The stock market certainly shook when hundreds of thousands of regular people suddenly piled into GameStop early this year, driving its price to heights that shocked professional investors.

A group intent on expanding Republican power across state-level offices is rolling out a national effort to diversify and broaden the GOP, with an advisory council headed up by a number of possible future presidential hopefuls.

What does Bitcoin have to do with roads and bridges.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Nasdaq’s groundbreaking proposal to boost the number of women, racial minorities and LGBTQ people on U.S. corporate boards.

The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said that investors need more protection in the cryptocurrency market, which he said is “rife with fraud, scams and abuse.”.

Chinese companies hoping to sell their shares in the United States must start making more disclosures about their potential risks before U.S. regulators will allow them to list their stock.

Top regulators are pledging to push reforms in a key corner of U.S. financial markets that the Federal Reserve and Treasury had to rush to support after it was roiled during the coronavirus outbreak in the spring of 2020.

GameStop and other meme stocks are jumping again.

The price of the famously volatile digital currency Bitcoin fell nearly 30% at one point Wednesday after the China Banking Association warned member banks of the risks associated with digital currencies.

The Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s choice to lead a key agency overseeing Wall Street.

He was asked about the roiling stock-trading drama involving GameStop shares that has spurred clamor for tighter regulation of Wall Street. The GameStop episode prompted lawmakers to raise concern about the business model of Robinhood, the online trading platform that hosted a wave of trading in GameStop. If confirmed to the SEC post, Gensler said, he would work to strengthen transparency and accountability in the markets. Biden’s selection of Gensler to lead the SEC signals a goal of turning the Wall Street watchdog agency toward an activist role after a deregulatory stretch during the Trump administration. The GameStop episode has bolstered political momentum toward tighter regulation of the securities markets, though Republican lawmakers and regulators generally will oppose new rules.

President-elect Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden look out at lights during a COVID-19 memorial, with lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. “To heal we must remember," the incoming president told the nation at a sunset ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial. “Between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights into the darkness ... and remember all who we lost,” Biden said. Biden at his Delaware farewell, held at the National Guard/Reserve Center named after his late son Beau Biden, paid tribute to his home state. ___This story has been corrected to show that flags on the National Mall represent people who couldn't come, not COVID deaths.

Flags are placed on the National Mall, looking towards the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln Memorial, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, in Washington. As Biden and Harris took breaks from their inaugural preparations to honor the civil rights hero Monday, outgoing President Donald Trump remained out of public view at the White House for the sixth straight day. Biden transition officials, including incoming Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall and the deputy attorney general nominee, Lisa Monaco, held a videoconference with acting heads and career staff from national security agencies to discuss the security situation surrounding Inauguration Day. Even before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, inauguration festivities were expected to be muted due to the virus. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged residents to stay away from the city on Inauguration Day.

President-elect Joe Biden is set to nominate Rohit Chopra as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, tapping a progressive ally of Sen. Elizabeth Warren to helm the agency whose creation she championed. Gensler, a former Goldman Sachs banker, tightened oversight of the complex financial transactions that helped cause the Great Recession. Consumer and investor advocate groups praised the selections of Gensler and Chopra. Mulvaney had been a vocal critic of the consumer agency and made deep changes to it, softening regulations on payday loans, for example, and pulling back on enforcement efforts. As one of two Democratic commissioners on the five-member Federal Trade Commission, Chopra has been an outspoken critic of practices by big companies, especially tech giant Facebook.