• The London Stock Exchange Group appears poised to win regulatory approval for its $27 billion buyout of data giant Refinitiv
• IEX all but eliminates its delay on outbound data and order messages
• Cboe eclipses Nasdaq as the second-biggest listing market for US ETPs
• Barclays becomes the first — but likely not the last — bank to launch a single-dealer platform
• After the SEC adopts his signature SIP Infrastructure rules, Brett Redfearn announces the end of an extraordinarily active and controversial tenure as Trading & Markets Division head
• Rep. Maxine Waters releases a set of priorities for her second term running the House Financial Services Committee that does not include equity-market-structure items
• Global regulatory umbrella agency IOSCO takes up the market-data mantle
• HFTs finally win a long, hard battle with the CFTC regarding their trading source code
• The UK announces surprise plans to relax dark-trading rules for EU-listed stocks in the event of a no-deal Brexit
• Financial institutions turn to financial technology to help position them for uncertain pandemic times
• Even as Bitcoin prices set records, the regulatory outlook for cryptocurrencies remains uncertain