Description
In the February 2025 of Market Structure Insights we cover:
- how thousands of former federal employees are now unemployed;
- the President’s unprecedented blocking of federal payments, stopping state Medicaid payments, farm subsidies, and health research;
- the President’s summary execution of the primary agency for foreign aid (USAID) and efforts to fire most staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the federal regulator for consumer loans);
- the new SEC, which still includes Commissioner Crenshaw (for now), and is already granting various industries “relief;”
- the SEC staff’s blessing companies’ exclusions of more shareholder proposals from their proxy materials;
- the SEC and CFTC joint order extending the compliance deadline for Form PF reporting changes;
- the SEC’s decision to allow firms another year to comply with short selling and short position reporting rules;
- the SEC’s decision to remove address,and date of birth information from the Consolidated Audit Trail;
- FINRA’s Annual Report, which highlights best execution in a 24/7 world;
- how federal financial regulators are running away from climate initiatives;
- how Robinhood and crypto dragged the CFTC into Super Bowl gambling;
- the rising demand for Bitcoin from governments and Bitcoin ETFs;
- how companies may avoid liability for false claims if they go public via direct listings;
- how FactSet is looking to expand CUSIPs to fixed income:
- the potential return of regional securities exchanges;
- industry efforts to delay compliance with treasuries trading reforms;
- State Farm’s rapid ramp up,and pullback from California housing market;
- the rapidly evolving policy changes regarding China;
- the organization of key House and Senate committees;
- the death of the Congressional deficit hawks;
- the return of President Trump’s tariff-based foreign policy.
Plus full coverage of the markets and more.