July 8, 2026
- Traditional exchanges seek to list a range of retail-oriented products that mimic or seek to defend their turf from fast-growing but controversial “prediction markets”
- Cboe considers converting certain crypto futures into “perpetual” contracts, which are becoming popular with retail speculators on upstart platforms
- Will the industry and policymakers’ Marie Antoinette approach to the explosion of gambling and high-risk speculation on markets and betting platforms end with pitchforks in the public square?
- SCOTUS hands the president the power to fire regulatory-agency commissioners at will, putting the final nail in the coffin of SEC independence
- Institutional investors join the growing chorus of opposition to the White House-favored SEC proposal to let public companies halve the frequency of shareholder reporting
- The CFTC opens a wide-ranging investigation into Polymarket, while the intensifying battle over how to regulate it and other event-betting platforms hurtles toward the Supreme Court
- CME sues the CFTC to stop Kalshi’s “perpetual futures,” amid questions over whether leverage on such products should be capped
- Hedge funds and market makers continue to wrestle with how much to rely on artificial intelligence, as well as its costly infrastructure demands
- The CLARITY Act appears dead in Congress, forcing its crypto-industry backers to double down on midterm campaign financing
- Proponents of equity “tokenization” aren’t waiting for the SEC’s forthcoming “innovation exemption” or its proposed gutting of Regulation NMS to put their plans into motion
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