SEC Rulemaking Radar: The Rubber Meets the Road (Law360)

In a recent Law360 Expert Analysis article, Goodwin counsel Christopher Grobbel explains that in 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Trump administration hit reset and signaled a shift toward facilitating capital formation and pursuing targeted regulatory reforms and openness toward new and emerging technologies. The SEC has already withdrawn several proposals from the prior administration, and, in the months ahead, the commission is expected to build further upon the crypto-assets proposal and its articulated policy goals by providing a clear regulatory framework for digital asset securities more broadly, updating certain aspects of US market structure, and streamlining regulations to ease burdens on smaller firms. The spring 2026 agenda moves many of the initiatives previewed last autumn from concept to proposed rule stage. Where prior installments of this column discussed what the SEC intended to do, the spring 2026 agenda, released on July 7, reveals what the commission is actually doing. The proposed rules now touch virtually every corner of broker-dealer and exchange operations, from how digital assets are held and traded to how quotations are published and records are kept. This installment focuses on the rulemakings most likely to reshape the day-to-day compliance, business, and operational decisions of brokers and exchanges.

Read the full article: “SEC Rulemaking Radar: The Rubber Meets The Road” (Law360)