U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

For week 2 of our Freedom 250 campaign, we’re highlighting another transformational milestone in the history of our capital markets: the invention of the stock ticker. A quick history lesson below ⬇️📚 Before stock tickers, brokers relied on messengers running handwritten slips of paper between exchanges and brokerage offices. In 1867, Edward Calahan created a system of telegraphy that converted stock-price signals into stamped codes on ticker tape, significantly speeding up the transfer of information. This new invention brought heightened accuracy and efficiency to a previously slow and more vulnerable stock trading system. After the technology was adopted by the New York Stock Exchange, the stock ticker quickly became the new operating standard for market participants as the first real-time electronic information network in the United States. It expanded access to price data and inspired new financial strategies. New ideas and developing technology are key to facilitating market growth and capital formation in an ever-evolving economy. Throughout its history, the SEC has worked to embrace and encourage innovation—not ignore or stifle it—to ensure our financial markets remain the deepest and most liquid in the world. Here’s to 250 more years of brilliant ideas and American prosperity! 🇺🇸 @Freedom250

At the AI+ Expo, @SECGov Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins addressed the common fear that artificial intelligence represents an "unprecedented rupture" in history. His perspective, grounded in the history of U.S. financial markets, offers a much more measured approach. As Chairman Atkins pointed out, AI is part of a long line of "mind-aiding instruments" that have transformed the global economy, from the telegraph to the electronic order book. While the pace of this innovation is undeniably new, the process of integrating it into our capital markets is a familiar challenge. Instead of demanding wholly new systems of safeguards, he argues that the path to continued American leadership relies on understanding the technology and making "careful adjustment and recalibration" to maintain investor trust. #sec #AIExpoDC

Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins at today’s @scsp_ai’s #AIExpoDC ⬇️⬇️ “The SEC will keep moving forward in its work to accommodate markets moving onchain. But as we do, I continue to echo my call for Congress to send the CLARITY Act to President Trump’s desk.”   sec.gov/newsroom/speec…

Today, the Division of Trading and Markets granted no-action relief to facilitate the rollout of Trump Accounts while ensuring critical investor protections remain in place. Trump Accounts present a historic opportunity to change the course of the lives of the next generation by helping Americans save and invest for the future. I look forward to continuing to advance this important priority of President @realDonaldTrump and supporting @SecScottBessent and my colleagues across the administration to help our next generation build wealth and access the American Dream. 🇺🇸

Today, the @SECGov proposed amendments to provide public companies with the option of filing one semiannual report, on a new Form 10-S, in lieu of three quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Here's why it matters. ⬇️ Public companies have an obligation under the federal securities laws to provide information that is material to investors. Yet, the rigidity of the SEC’s rules has prevented companies and their investors from determining for themselves the interim reporting frequency that best serves their business needs and investors. Today’s proposed amendments, if ultimately adopted, would provide companies with increased regulatory flexibility in this regard. In determining a company’s reporting cadence, a company might consider factors such as the costs and management time of preparing quarterly reports versus semiannual reports, expectations of its investors, potential effects on its cost of capital, the stage of its business development, the nature of its business model, other avenues of disclosure including earnings calls[2] and current reports on Form 8-K, and prospects of increased research coverage, all without undermining fundamental investor protections. Ultimately, this flexibility might reduce some of the burdens of being a public company and potentially influence a company’s decision to become or remain public. The proposal seeks public input on the optional semiannual reporting framework, and I look forward to the public feedback. Of course, the frequency of regulatory reporting is only part of the equation for incentivizing companies to go and stay public. Another significant part is ensuring that the disclosure—both financial and non-financial—mandated in interim reports, whether filed quarterly or semiannually, is guided by materiality as the north star. At the SEC, the Commission staff is well underway in exploring potential amendments to Regulation S-K,[3] generally and including the parts implicated by interim reports.[4] With respect to the financial statements required in interim reports, I also encourage the Financial Accounting Standards Board to evaluate potential amendments to its accounting standards, with the same goal of eliciting disclosure of material information and avoid compelling the disclosure of immaterial information. Today’s proposal is just the first step of the larger, comprehensive effort to review and reshape the current SEC rules governing public companies with respect to their ongoing reporting obligations and their ability to raise capital in the public markets. Over the next few months, I expect that the Commission will be considering a series of proposals that, if adopted, will not only redefine what it means to be a public company, but will make being public attractive again.

TODAY 🚨: The SEC proposed rule and form amendments that would give public companies the option of filing semiannual reports in lieu of quarterly reports to meet their interim reporting obligations under the federal securities laws. Read the full release: ow.ly/g7RI50YV78L

Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins: "It's often said that the American capital markets are the envy of the world. And they are." 🇺🇸

We must focus on giving innovators, especially in digital asset markets, the ability to innovate at home under U.S. laws for the benefit of the U.S. economy and U.S. investors. Through our harmonization efforts with the @CFTC, we're delivering long overdue clarity in this space.

Today, the SEC’s Divisions of Investment Management and Corporation Finance released staff statements providing guidance on pooled employer plans.   Read the staff statements below ⬇️ From the Division of Investment Management: sec.gov/newsroom/speec… From the Division of Corporation Finance: #118.01" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sec.gov/rules-regulati…

Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins at the @MilkenInstitute's Global Conference 2026: "We're focusing on economic materiality for disclosure and the minimum effective dose of regulation that's needed for investor protection and to keep our markets going."

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This July marks 250 years since America’s founding. Over the next 10 weeks, we’re highlighting the evolution of U.S. financial markets, including the innovation & legislation that drive American prosperity today. First up, the Buttonwood Agreement. Learn more👇 @Freedom250

When I returned to the @SECGov in 2025, my mandate was clear: restore clarity, integrity, and trust to an agency that had lost sight of its core mission. One year later, we are delivering on that mission, and the most important work still lies ahead. My latest in @dcexaminer ⬇️

Excited to join Bitcoin 2026 to talk about the future regulatory landscape for digital assets. Tune into my fireside chat with @PerianneDC at 2:20pm ET! ⬇️

The Office of Support Operations (OSO) - Office of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Services is seeking a FOIA Attorney-Adviser. For more information and to apply, please visit: usajobs.gov/job/866512500.

Learn about steps to take if a data breach or identity theft ever compromises your personal financial information in this updated investor alert: ow.ly/3Br950YOe37

📸 Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins at the @NYSE this week to ring the opening bell and commemorate his one-year anniversary as Chairman of the @SECGov.

Even a small difference in fees can make a big difference in the value of your investment portfolio over time. Learn how fees you pay for investment services and products can impact the value of your portfolio: ow.ly/jz2l50YOcXa #FinancialLiteracyMonth

It was great to be at @TheEconomicClub of Washington D.C. today to discuss the significant progress made this past year at the SEC. Under my leadership, the SEC will continue to ensure that the U.S. remains the best and most secure place in the world to invest and do business.

Chairman @SECPaulSAtkins at @TheEconomicClub of Washington D.C. today, marking his one-year anniversary as SEC Chairman 📸🇺🇸 "One year ago, I said that we must return the agency to the core mission that Congress set for it. We did."