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SEC Schedules CLARITY Act Roundtable for May - Senate Markup Targets Week of May 11

US Securities and Exchange Commission has scheduled a CLARITY Act roundtable for May 2026, bringing together SEC and CFTC officials with crypto industry representatives. The roundtable will debate digital asset market structure jurisdiction before Senate Banking Committee markup targeting the week of May 11, 2026. This represents a critical juncture for comprehensive crypto legislation in the US.

High impactπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United StatesRegulationStablecoinBTCETHSOLXRPSECCFTC

APAC FINSTAB analysis

Although this is outside core APAC, it is relevant because global market-structure, enforcement, and stablecoin precedents often shape licensing expectations for APAC exchanges, issuers, custodians, and DeFi teams. Protocols/assets in scope: BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP. Named institutions or platforms: SEC, CFTC. Teams should monitor the original source, map the change to licensing, custody, disclosure, and market-access obligations, and update their jurisdiction playbooks before the next compliance review.

Compliance read-through: map this event to entity licensing, market-access, custody, disclosure, token listing, and operational-risk obligations before expanding or marketing in the affected jurisdiction.

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High impactπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ ChinaRegulationAMLEnforcement