On December 15, 2025, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to amend the exchange’s rules to allow equity securities and exchange traded products (ETPs) to...more
The New York Stock Exchange just announced plans for a new tokenized securities platform, marking a significant shift towards 24/7 global markets. ...more
The new year has started with important developments in the digital asset landscape, as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) take action towards integrating digital assets and...more
On January 19, 2026, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced the development of a new platform for trading tokenized securities. The new platform will, subject to necessary regulatory approvals, enable companies to issue...more
The European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation on a draft act amending the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/522 under the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). The amendment delivers on two separate actions. The first is the...more
On December 17, 2025, the staff of the Division of Trading and Markets (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released an update to its May 2025 FAQs relating to crypto asset activities and...more
On September 8, 2025, Nasdaq submitted a first-of-its-kind application to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to amend Nasdaq rules to permit the trading of tokenized securities alongside traditional, non-tokenized...more
The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE), based in Dallas, Texas, has received approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to operate as an exchange, with plans to begin listing shares in 2026. TXSE was created to reduce...more
On September 30, 2025, the new Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) announced that the SEC approved its Form 1 registration statement, officially approving the exchange. Accordingly, the TXSE is now officially a recognized national...more
On September 8, The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) filed a Form 19b-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), proposing rule changes that would allow trading of equity securities and exchange-traded products...more
What is PISCES? The Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) is a UK government–backed initiative designed to enable private companies to offer and trade their existing shares in a controlled,...more
On July 16, TradeStation Securities, Inc., a member firm of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver, and Consent (AWC) to FINRA’s Department of Enforcement. This AWC...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released its final rules regarding the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (known as PISCES), the new platform designed to host intermittent secondary trading...more
On April 10, 2025, the SEC’s newly formed Crypto Task Force held the second of its promised series of roundtables in the SEC’s “Spring Sprint Toward Crypto Clarity” initiative. Titled “Between a Block and a Hard Place:...more
According to crypto platform Kraken, the aggregate market cap for all meme coins is over $70 billion. Five meme coins would be considered unicorns (market cap over $1 billion) if they were startups. Dogecoin’s market cap is...more
White & Case has supported UK Finance and the Association for Financial Markets in Europe ("AFME") on their joint response to the Financial Conduct Authority's ("FCA") consultation on the private intermittent securities and...more
Key Points - - During its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to provide important guidance on the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act’s (PSLRA’s) particularity requirement in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or...more
The SEC has released its Examination Priorities: Fiscal Year 2025 (“Examination Priorities”), which may be a useful roadmap to SEC-registered investment advisers, exchanges, and other entities subject to routine examination...more
This fall, the Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) released CSA Staff Notice 21-333 Crypto Asset Trading Platforms: Terms and Conditions for Trading Value-referenced Crypto Assets with Clients (the “Staff Notice”) to...more
The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) recently proposed amendments (the “Proposed Amendments”) to OSC Rule 13-502 Fees and OSC Rule 13-503 (Commodity Futures Act) Fees (together, the “Fee Rules”) that would introduce two...more
On October 4, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada announced the formation of a new task force, the Corporate and Securities Fraud Strike Force....more
On June 6, Alabama, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin each filed enforcement actions against leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and its parent,...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) voted on Friday, April 14, 2023, to reopen the comment period for previously proposed amendments to Rule 3b-16 under the Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more
On February 22, 2023, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released Staff Notice 21-332 (SN 21-332), which introduces enhanced pre-registration requirements that apply to unregistered crypto-asset trading platforms...more
On February 22, 2023, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice 21-332 Crypto Asset Trading Platforms: Pre-Registration Undertakings – Changes to Enhance Canadian Investor Protection (the Staff...more