SEC

What SEC does

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent federal regulatory agency established under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, headquartered in Washington, D.C. The agency oversees all U.S. securities markets, public company disclosures, and market participants including broker-dealers, investment advisers, and exchanges. It enforces federal securities laws, administers mandatory disclosure requirements through its EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) electronic filing system, and pursues enforcement actions against market participants that violate antifraud, anti-money-laundering, and fiduciary provisions. The agency is led by Chairman Paul S. Atkins; Jay Clayton is identified in the data as a former Chair.

The SEC's recent agenda has emphasized digital asset regulation, AI-augmented oversight, and modernized disclosure frameworks. In March 2026, the SEC and CFTC jointly issued a 68-page regulatory framework classifying 16 leading cryptocurrencies as digital commodities, accompanied by an inter-agency Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate oversight of digital assets, swaps, and derivatives. The agency created an AI Task Force in August 2025 to support risk assessments, fraud detection, disclosure reviews, and market risk analysis, and adopted final rules implementing the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act to extend Section 16(a) reporting requirements to directors and officers of foreign private issuers effective March 18, 2026. New Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations addressing M&A transactions, tender offers, shareholder meetings, and Rule 701 compensatory benefit plans have expanded interpretive guidance.

As a federal agency, the SEC is funded through congressional appropriations and securities transaction and registration fees rather than commercial revenue. Its primary regulated constituencies include institutional investors, crypto exchanges and digital asset platforms, public companies and M&A participants, foreign private issuers, and private fund advisers. (Note: the source firmographics block references a separate Japanese software services entity at sec-co.co.jp; the substantive analysis here pertains to the U.S. SEC.)

Name

SEC

Legal name

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Website

https://sec-co.co.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is an independent federal regulatory agency that oversees U.S. securities markets, public company disclosures, and market participants through enforcement of federal securities laws and administration of the EDGAR electronic filing system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Koto

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Core offering

SEC provides software development services and ongoing maintenance support for information processing systems. The company builds custom enterprise software and provides engineering resources to sustain operational reliability for Japanese business clients' information systems. Founded in 1985, SEC has accumulated technical expertise in custom software engineering and IT support for enterprise information processing systems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Software Development Services Custom software development services for information processing systems, building enterprise applications and business software solutions for Japanese business clients.
• Information Systems Maintenance Support Ongoing maintenance and technical support services for information processing systems to ensure operational continuity and reliability for enterprise clients.

Quantifiable outcome

• 73% of surveyed global institutional decision-makers planning to boost crypto allocations despite regulatory concerns

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026The SEC and CFTC issued a joint Memorandum of Understanding establishing a framework for coordinated regulation of markets and products under overlapping jurisdiction, including crypto assets, swaps, and derivatives. The agreement aims to reduce duplicative compliance requirements, enhance data sharing, coordinate examinations and enforcement actions, and provide clearer regulatory guidance for emerging technologies.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS): Singapore's integrated financial regulator with an active crypto and digital asset supervisory regime, frequently cited as a peer benchmark for the SEC's innovation-friendly framework direction.
• Financial Conduct Authority (FCA): The U.K.'s conduct regulator for financial services firms and markets, a comparable cross-border peer in securities-market oversight and a benchmark for the SEC's innovation-exemption and crypto frameworks.
• European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA): The EU's securities markets regulator, a regional peer that the SEC coordinates with on cross-border issuer, market structure, and crypto regulatory matters under equivalent mandates.
• Securities and Futures Commission (SFC, Hong Kong): Hong Kong's securities and futures regulator with significant crypto and virtual-asset oversight, comparable in scope to the SEC for Asia-facing digital asset activity.
• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI): India's securities market regulator with active crypto and alternative-investment-fund oversight, a regional peer to the SEC in market structure and disclosure enforcement.

Direct peers

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): The U.S. federal regulator for derivatives markets and a direct peer to the SEC on crypto, swaps, and digital asset oversight, with whom the SEC has executed a joint Memorandum of Understanding and co-issued the March 2026 crypto framework.
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA): The self-regulatory organization overseeing U.S. broker-dealers, operating as a direct functional peer for securities-market participant supervision and disclosure enforcement alongside the SEC.

Broad incumbents

• Federal Reserve Board: U.S. federal banking and financial-stability regulator with overlapping jurisdiction over systemically important market participants and payment, clearing, and settlement infrastructure relevant to SEC oversight.
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC): U.S. federal regulator of national banks, a peer in the broader U.S. financial regulatory ecosystem with coordinated supervisory and enforcement roles vis-à-vis securities activities at banks.

Others

• PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board): Oversight body for audits of U.S. public companies, an adjacent ecosystem participant to the SEC's disclosure regime that depends on the SEC's statutory authority and operates under SEC oversight.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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