SEC's 24-Hour Trading Roundtable Tests the Clock's Last Wall
The commission will examine exchanges, brokers, and clearers to see if a round-the-clock equities market is feasible without breaking the investor protections it claims to guard.
- Acting Chair Mark Uyeda will open the July 29 roundtable, warning that speed must not outrun safeguards.
- Four panels cover exchange technology, broker-dealer operations, clearing and settlement, and market structure.
- Futures and crypto already trade around the clock; equities are the last session left, and the SEC's roundtable will ask why.
Why it matters: The 9-to-4 trading day was the last public schedule in finance; the business of arbitrage never slept anyway.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ↗ · Jul 23, 20267/23/26