On September 28, 2026, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) Office of Chief Accountant Kurt Hohl and Division of Investment Management Director Brian Daly (collectively, the Staff), issued a joint statement on fair value measurement and disclosure considerations
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Parties to the London Convention and Protocol Debate Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance
The parties to the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1996 Protocol to that Convention (London Protocol) are meeting this week. High on…
Greenwashing as Aspirational Signaling
Greenwashing is usually treated as a problem of corporate deception. Firms make environmental claims that exaggerate, selectively disclose, or obscure their actual sustainability performance. Greenwashing leaves investors, consumers, employees, and regulators with an overly favorable impression, thereby stifling true progress. …
Cahill Discusses SEC’s “Innovation Exemption” for Tokenized Stock Trading
On September 17, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission” or the “SEC”) issued two conditional exemptions to facilitate permissioned trading of tokenized national market system (“NMS”) stocks.[1] Collectively known as the “Innovation Exemption,” the relief exempts qualifying…
What Does Securities Deregulation Mean for Climate Risk?
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) proposal to rescind its 2024 climate-disclosure rule marked a significant reversal of efforts to surface and standardize information about climate-related financial risk. But underlying that high-profile rollback is a broader trend toward securities deregulation…
Shadow SEC Statement No. 15: Regulation Crypto
On September 15, the Clarity Act failed to secure a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, with four Republicans and all 47 Democrats voting against considering the bill at this time. The Act may come back to life again next…
SEC Issues Statement on Fair Value Measurement and Disclosure Considerations for Private Assets
Investment in private assets continues to grow, including for an increasing number of registrants that are required to subsequently measure these investments at fair value, such as registered closed-end funds, interval funds, tender offer funds, business development companies and private…
Can Frontier AI Labs Lawfully Agree to Slow Down to Save Humanity?
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for coordinated limits on the pace of frontier-AI development, with government support to address antitrust constraints. Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Elon Musk (SpaceXAI) publicly supported the proposal’s…
Skadden Discusses Bank Agencies’ Proposed Changes to Third-Party Risk Management Guidance
On September 11, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and National Credit Union Administration (collectively, the “agencies”) jointly issued proposed interagency…
Public Purpose and Founder Control at Anthropic
Anthropic, a public benefit corporation (PBC), continues to offer food for thought on corporate governance and its mission to develop AI responsibly and for the long-term benefit of humanity. The frontier AI laboratory is preparing to enter public markets with…