D.C. Circuit reverses SEC ruling on SPIKES futures, calls it "arbitrary and capricious"

The U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee (SEC) suffered one other setback on July 28 because the D.C. Circuit overturned a ruling by the regulator ordering that SPIKES Index securities needs to be handled as ‘futures’ reasonably than as ‘securities futures’. The choose panel referred to as the SEC order “arbitrary and capricious.”

The choice pertains to an order from 2020, during which the SEC exempted SPIKES Index — a inventory volatility index — from the definition of safety futures, thus eliminating heavy taxes and different regulatory necessities hooked up to the time period ‘safety’. The aid, in accordance with the SEC, was meant to advertise competitors amongst volatility indexes.

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