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SEC Chair Discusses Digital-Asset Oversight and CAT in Senate Banking Committee Testimony

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Alexander Covtun
February 12, 2026 132

WASHINGTON, February 12, 2026 — Paul S. Atkins, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, delivered testimony Thursday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, outlining the agency’s regulatory priorities, including matters concerning digital assets and the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), according to prepared remarks released by the Commission.

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SEC Chair Testifies Before House Financial Services Committee

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Alexander Covtun
February 11, 2026 130

WASHINGTON, February 11, 2026 — Paul S. Atkins, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, testified before the House Financial Services Committee, outlining the agency’s regulatory priorities and its approach to digital asset oversight, according to prepared remarks released by the Commission.

ESMA MiCA compliance table on crypto-asset transfer guidelines under EU Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation.

ESMA Publishes Compliance Table on MiCA Crypto-Asset Transfer Guidelines

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Alexander Covtun
February 10, 2026 105

On 9 February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Guidelines Compliance Table covering its guidelines on “the procedures and policies, including the rights of clients,” in the context of transfer services for crypto-assets under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), focused on investor protection.

SEC publishes ETF and fund merger data

SEC Publishes New Data on ETFs, Fund Mergers and Market Participants

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Alexander Covtun
February 7, 2026 136

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has published new datasets and staff analyses examining developments across the U.S. investment fund landscape, including the growth of active exchange-traded funds, fee outcomes following fund mergers, and updated statistics covering several categories of regulated market participants.