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MONTH-IN-BRIEF (Jul 2026)
SEC’s 2026 Regulatory Agenda
By Karen Liu, Reid & Wise LLC
On July 7, 2026, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the “2026 Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions,” a government-wide rulemaking agenda published twice a year covering various agencies. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s 2026 regulatory agenda (“2026 Regulatory Agenda”) was one of the released unified agenda of federal agencies.
On the same day, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins made a statement on the 2026 Regulatory Agenda and emphasized in particular the importance of three areas of rulemaking in the SEC’s 2026 Regulatory Agenda, namely, crypto capital, public markets, and private markets.
