On December 17, 2025, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) announced a partnership with Digital Asset Holdings (Digital Asset), a developer of distributed ledger technology, to tokenize a subset of U.S. Treasury securities custodied at its subsidiary, the Depository Trust Company (DTC), using Digital Asset’s Canton Network. This announcement follows DTC’s receipt of a No-Action Letter from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on December 11, 2025, providing no-action relief allowing DTC to offer a pilot tokenization service for certain highly liquid assets.

On December 15, 2025, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) announced that it intends to formally seek Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval to expand its weekday trading schedule to 23 hours per day, a significant increase from the current 16-hour framework. The proposal builds on earlier statements by Nasdaq President , Tal Cohen, indicating that Nasdaq has begun discussions with regulators regarding the expanded trading schedule and is targeting a potential launch in the second half of 2026.

Two recent developments signal where the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) is headed in 2026. First, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins’ address at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on December 2, 2025 set forth guiding principles for reform with the goal to, in Chairman Atkins’ words, “make IPOs great again.”