SIFMA

Washington, D.C., July 16, 2026 – SIFMA today issued the following statement from president and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. on a proposed rule from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to electronic delivery of certain required financial disclosures: “SIFMA welcomes the SEC’s proposal to modernize the electronic delivery framework for investor communications.

In Episode 03 of Market Snapshot, SIFMA President and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. and Head of Research Heidi Learner are joined by Tom Porcelli, Chief Economist at Wells Fargo, to discuss the latest forces shaping markets.

The SEC’s April 2026 concept release on the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) is an important milestone in the Commission’s ongoing comprehensive review of the CAT. For many years, SIFMA has urged the Commission to address privacy and data risks as well as the funding and governance flaws that have led to the CAT’s insular decision making and significant cost overruns.

The conversations taking place across the financial services industry today are reshaping the future of market operations. Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to enterprise adoption. Digital assets and tokenization continue to mature. Markets are becoming increasingly interconnected and, in some cases, increasingly continuous.

In a prior blog, we introduced the role of wallet providers in supporting digital assets activity and the importance of ensuring that wallet providers who provide broker services are subject to consistent regulation appropriate to their role in the markets.

When the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, there were no U.S. Treasury securities, no stock exchange, no mutual funds, and no public markets as we know them today. The United States itself was still an experiment. Two hundred and fifty years later, America’s capital markets help millions of individuals save, invest, and build financial security while providing businesses, governments, and communities access to the capital they need to grow and thrive.

Washington, D.C., June 23, 2026 – SIFMA filed a comment letter with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to the SEC’s concept release in support of its comprehensive review of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT). In its letter, SIFMA addresses the longstanding issues of CAT funding and governance, which ultimately stem from the NMS plan governance structure currently used to operate the CAT.

The SEC is working to integrate distributed ledger technology (DLT) and tokenization into the U.S. securities markets. SIFMA and its members support innovation in the securities markets and believe that these technologies can yield real benefits in how securities are issued, traded, and settled. In that spirit, we are launching a blog series examining where the greatest opportunities lie to improve efficiency, lower costs, and broaden access.

Key Takeaways: Adults over 60 lost $5 billion to financial fraud in 2024 – and only 1 in 44 cases is ever reported. This year’s WEAAD theme, Beyond Awareness: Making Elder Abuse Prevention Work, reflects the urgent need for a more coordinated and comprehensive response to this growing threat. When supporting scam victims, emotional recovery must be prioritized. For romance fraud survivors in particular, the relationship was real, and effective intervention requires empathy and patience.

Washington, D.C., June 18, 2026 – The Institute of International Finance (IIF), the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.