Americas Reg Desk

Wednesday, 2026-09-30 · covering the last 24h

United States

SEC proposes to expand retail access to private markets. The Commission voted to propose rule amendments broadening the "accredited investor" definition (including holders of professional credentials such as the CPA and CFA designations) and permitting performance-based compensation of up to 20% for advisers to certain retail-facing private-asset vehicles, part of a wider push to widen individual access to private equity, private credit and venture capital. The proposals now go to Federal Register publication and public comment. SEC press release

No material new NYSE, Nasdaq or Cboe market-structure rule filings in the window. Cboe's pending Rule 8.23 anti-disruptive-trading proposal (SR-CBOE-2026-008) reached its SEC approve-or-disapprove deadline today; no order was available at the time of writing. No new CFTC rulemaking bearing on equity markets, no new FINRA regulatory notice, and no new Federal Reserve Board rulemaking or supervisory guidance reaching market participants, in the window.

Canada

No material new CSA/OSC, CIRO or TMX rulemaking, and no new Bank of Canada FMI rulemaking, in the window.

Latin America

No material items from Brazil's CVM/B3/BCB, Mexico's CNBV/BIVA-BMV/Banxico, Chile's CMF/BCCh or Argentina's CNV/BCRA in the window.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.