Morgan Stanley Files for MSBT, a Spot Bitcoin ETF for Its $8 Trillion Wealth Platform

    Morgan Stanley Files for MSBT, a Spot Bitcoin ETF for Its $8 Trillion Wealth Platform

    Morgan Stanley filed Amendment No. 6 to its S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 3, 2026, seeking approval for a spot Bitcoin ETF under the ticker

    September 14, 2026

    Access Via Your Adviser Is Not Access on Your Own Terms: The SEC Private Markets Proposal Explained

    Access Via Your Adviser Is Not Access on Your Own Terms: The SEC Private Markets Proposal Explained

    SEC Chairman Paul Atkins has put forward a proposed rulemaking that would let retail investors reach private securities markets through registered investment companies managed by registered

    September 14, 2026

    Hamilton Lane Closes $3.8B EO VI: What Direct Equity Co-Investment Access Actually Costs an LP

    Hamilton Lane Closes $3.8B EO VI: What Direct Equity Co-Investment Access Actually Costs an LP

    Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) closed Equity Opportunities Fund VI ("EO VI") on July 1, 2026, at $3.8 billion in total commitments, making it the largest direct-equity fund in the firm's history.

    September 14, 2026

    How to Read a BDC Tender Offer Letter Before You Get Prorated

    How to Read a BDC Tender Offer Letter Before You Get Prorated

    The SEC's December 2024 Investor Bulletin on non-publicly traded BDCs is blunt: investors in retail-offered BDCs can generally only sell their shares when the BDC offers to repurchase them , and those

    September 13, 2026

    GP-Led Continuation Vehicles Explained: How Peterson Partners Kept Kelso Industries

    GP-Led Continuation Vehicles Explained: How Peterson Partners Kept Kelso Industries

    On September 9, 2026, Peterson Partners closed a $510 million capital raise for Peterson Kelso Coinvest, LP, a single-asset continuation vehicle for Kelso Industries, a national mechanical, electrical

    September 13, 2026

    Veep Capital Review: A New Reg A+ Platform With an Unusual Safeguard

    Veep Capital Review: A New Reg A+ Platform With an Unusual Safeguard

    Apex DeFi Labs Inc. announced on September 4, 2026, that it had opened Regulation A+ Tier 2 offering capability on Veep Capital, its private-markets issuance marketplace built on a platform the compan

    September 13, 2026

    A Fed Rate Hike Would Boost BDC Income Immediately. Here's the Catch.

    A Fed Rate Hike Would Boost BDC Income Immediately. Here's the Catch.

    Seven of the largest publicly traded business development companies (BDCs) disclose in their June-quarter SEC filings exactly what a 100 basis point base-rate rise is worth to them: across all seven,

    September 13, 2026

    Qualified Purchaser vs Accredited Investor: What a New SEC Rule Reveals

    Qualified Purchaser vs Accredited Investor: What a New SEC Rule Reveals

    On August 18, 2026, the SEC published proposed Regulation Crypto Assets (File No. S7-2026-27), a capital-raising framework for crypto investment contracts. Inside the state preemption section, propose

    September 13, 2026

    What Happened to OTIS: A Fractional Collectibles Cautionary Tale

    What Happened to OTIS: A Fractional Collectibles Cautionary Tale

    In March 2022, Public.com acquired OTIS (Otis Wealth Inc.) , the self-described "stock market for culture" that let retail investors buy Regulation A+ fractional shares in individual sneakers, trading

    September 13, 2026

    SEC's New Crypto Offering Rule Lets Startups Skip Financial Statements Entirely

    SEC's New Crypto Offering Rule Lets Startups Skip Financial Statements Entirely

    A crypto startup can raise $5 million from any member of the public, run general advertising, require no financial statements, and place no cap on what a single non-accredited investor puts in — while

    September 13, 2026

    BDC Redemption Requests Are Easing, Except at One Fund: A Q3 2026 Data Read

    BDC Redemption Requests Are Easing, Except at One Fund: A Q3 2026 Data Read

    Three of the four largest non-traded business development companies (BDCs) reporting Q3 2026 repurchase data through September 11 show declining redemption-request percentages from the prior quarter.

    September 13, 2026

    Volition Capital Closes $950M Fund VI, Its Largest Ever

    Volition Capital Closes $950M Fund VI, Its Largest Ever

    Volition Capital closed its sixth flagship fund at a hard cap of $950 million on September 11, 2026, bringing the Boston-based growth equity firm's total assets under management to over $2.6 billion,

    September 13, 2026