Americas Reg Desk

Thursday, 2026-11-05 · covering the last 24h

United States

NYSE Texas adopts a listing track for SPAC-style "Acquisition Companies". SR-NYSETEX-2026-39, effective immediately on filing (5 November), establishes new Rule 8a setting listing standards for blank-check acquisition vehicles on NYSE Texas, alongside its existing operating-company rules. Federal Register filing

SEC narrows the scope of its Treasury-clearing mandate. An exemptive order (Release No. 34-106789, granted 30 October, published 4 November) removes a category of secondary-market Treasury transactions from the "Eligible Secondary Market Transaction" definition that triggers mandatory central clearing through FICC under the 2023 Treasury-clearing rule — shrinking, not expanding, which transactions must be cleared. Federal Register order

Beyond those two, nothing else of structural weight surfaced from the SEC, FINRA, CFTC or the Federal Reserve this window — the rest was routine SRO fee-schedule and administrative filings (Cboe timestamping-service tweaks, Nasdaq information-circular housekeeping, an ISE options strike-interval filing) and three Fed bank-holding-company notices unrelated to market rules.

Canada

Nothing retrieved from the TSX or CDCC this window. CIRO, the CSA and the Bank of Canada's market-infrastructure side stayed quiet.

Latin America

A quiet window across CVM/B3, Banxico, Chile's CMF and Argentina's CNV/BCRA — no new Comunicado Externo, Resolução/Edital, Circular or Resolución General touching trading, listing or settlement rules this window.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.