SEC And CFTC Enter Memorandum Of Understanding To Promote Cross Agency Collaboration

On March 11, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to “guide coordination and collaboration” between the agencies. The MOU specifically seeks to address what SEC Chairman Paul Atkins called the “regulatory turf wars, duplicative agency registrations, and different sets of regulations between the SEC and CFTC” that have led to duplicative or fragmented oversight for financial... By: A&O Shearman