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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Federal financial regulator

Appears in 12 stories

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Comcast locks the ledger: Versant spinoff record date sets up a new public home for CNBC, MS NOW, and USA

Money Moves

Receives the Form 10, information statement, and Comcast 8-K disclosures

The divorce is final. Comcast completed the pro rata distribution of Versant Media Group shares on January 2, 2026; on January 5, the new company began regular-way trading on Nasdaq under ticker VSNT.

Updated Yesterday

The SEC picks a fight with its own superpower: financial surveillance vs. privacy in crypto

Rule Changes

Convened and webcast the roundtable; may convert discussions into policy actions

The SEC spent years telling crypto: "We can't see you, so we can't trust you." Now it's hosting a public, recorded forum on the most explosive question in the space: how much visibility regulators should demand—and how much privacy Americans should keep.

Updated Yesterday

Medline’s $6.26B Nasdaq debut turns a PE-era debt story into a public market test

Money Moves

Reviewed and declared Medline’s registration statement effective ahead of listing

Medline's Nasdaq arrival as MDLN quickly turned from “biggest IPO of 2025” into a live market verdict. Shares jumped roughly 41% in their first session, pushing the company into a roughly $50B+ valuation almost immediately.

Updated Yesterday

Gladstone Investment calls its 8% baby bond early—and kicks GAINL off Nasdaq

Money Moves

Disclosure venue; received the 8-K documenting the redemption plan

Gladstone issued an 8% baby bond in 2023 when money was expensive and investors wanted yield. Now the company is calling the $74.75 million 8.00% Notes due 2028 (ticker: GAINL) for redemption on December 16, 2025—at par plus accrued interest.

Updated Yesterday

ServiceNow’s 5-for-1 stock split hits its record date, setting up a lower-priced ‘reset’ for trading

Money Moves

Publishes ServiceNow’s filings that formalize the split mechanics

ServiceNow's 5-for-1 stock split executed on schedule: shares distributed after market close December 17, split-adjusted trading began December 18. The mechanical transition was clean—one $850 share became five $170 shares—but the 'fresh start' narrative got drowned out almost immediately by deal noise and analyst skepticism.

Updated Yesterday

Do Kwon’s fall: from algorithmic stablecoin visionary to 15-year inmate

Rule Changes

Won a civil fraud verdict and multibillion-dollar judgment against Terraform and Kwon.

Do Kwon sold TerraUSD as math-made money that could never break. In 2022 it snapped, vaporizing more than $40 billion and triggering a global hunt for the Stanford‑trained founder. Three years, an Interpol red notice, and a Montenegro arrest later, a New York judge has now handed him 15 years in federal prison.

Updated 5 days ago

SEC draws a hard line on ultra–leveraged stock and crypto ETFs

Rule Changes

Primary regulator setting and enforcing ETF leverage limits

In late 2025, SEC staff sent warning letters to nine ETF issuers, including Direxion and ProShares. The letters froze applications for 3x–5x leveraged ETFs tied to single stocks, sectors, and crypto assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum. The SEC staff cited Rule 18f‑4's value‑at‑risk cap and the requirement that the unleveraged underlying asset be the designated reference portfolio, which established that new ETFs cannot legally target more than 200% exposure.

Updated 6 days ago

Tesla moves to deliver Musk's $100 billion pay package

Money Moves

Receives S-8 registration; not party to compensation dispute

When Tesla's board agreed in 2018 to pay Elon Musk in stock options if he hit a string of growth targets, the maximum theoretical value was about $56 billion—already the largest CEO pay package ever written. Eight years later, Tesla is moving to actually hand over the shares, and they are now worth more than $100 billion.

Updated Apr 28

Crypto companies race to public markets as industry sheds post-FTX stigma

Money Moves

Previously brought two enforcement actions against Abra

Abra, a cryptocurrency wealth management platform that paid more than $83 million in regulatory settlements over the past two years, announced a $750 million merger with a blank-check company to list on Nasdaq. The deal with New Providence Acquisition Corp. III would deliver up to $300 million in cash to fund expansion of Abra's institutional lending, yield, and custody business—now the company's sole focus after it shut down its retail operations amid enforcement actions.

Updated Mar 16

X builds integrated finance platform

New Capabilities

Overseeing broker-dealer registration and securities trading regulation

Elon Musk founded X.com in 1999 with a vision of building an all-in-one financial services platform. That company became PayPal, and he was ousted as chief executive. Twenty-seven years later, he's trying again. X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, announced on February 14, 2026 that users will soon be able to trade stocks and cryptocurrency directly from their timelines through a feature called Smart Cashtags.

Updated Feb 14

Blockchain advisory firm Open World acquires Nasdaq shell through VerifyMe merger

Money Moves

Must approve merger filings

Open World, a Cayman Islands-based blockchain advisory firm that helped launch over $65 billion in token network value since 2023, is acquiring Nasdaq-listed VerifyMe through a reverse merger that will give Open World shareholders 90% ownership of the combined company. The deal, announced January 5 and formalized February 12, 2026, transforms a struggling authentication and logistics company into a publicly traded real-world asset tokenization platform.

Updated Feb 12

The SEC's crypto U-turn

Rule Changes

Operating with three Republican commissioners, no Democrats

Caroline Crenshaw walked out of the SEC on January 2, 2026, leaving the agency with three commissioners—all Republicans—for the first time in nearly two decades. She was the lone vote against Bitcoin ETFs, the single dissent on 13 crypto approvals, and the industry's most consistent obstacle. Her departure didn't just tilt the commission. It erased the opposition.

Updated Jan 5