U.S. SEC publishes a draft Strategic Plan for public comment by 2 July, outlining priorities to strengthen investor protection, enforcement, market efficiency, and tech-driven regulatory modernisation

The draft strategic plan sets three goals: renewing regulatory policy to support innovation, capital formation, market efficiency and investor protection; increasing stakeholder engagement and recalibrating enforcement toward established legal violations; and modernising the SEC’s internal technology, organisational structure and performance management. It also points to work on digital assets, disclosure simplification, private markets, retrospective rule reviews, EDGAR modernisation, responsible use of AI and blockchain, with public comments due by 2 July 2026…