U.S. SEC begins prepping for around-the-clock trading that crypto treats as the norm

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dug into plans for around-the-clock trading in an event on the same morning it approved tokenized securities.

ByJesse Hamilton|Edited byNikhilesh De
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• Expanding securities markets into overnight trading was the topic of a Thursday U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission roundtable, which also raised how tokenizing securities may factor into that.
• While traditional firms are trying to work out longer hours, one SEC commissioner noted that crypto markets “don’t sleep.”

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