SEC opens in­quiry in­to Wall Street's SPAC ma­nia — re­port; A Chi­na-based gene ther­a­py play­er now has $80M more in the bank

The SPAC ma­nia has in­ten­si­fied not just in biotech but through­out the mar­ket. And it’s caught so much fire that now the SEC has re­port­ed­ly opened an in­quiry in­to the mat­ter.

US reg­u­la­tors have reached out to Wall Street banks for in­for­ma­tion on how they’re man­ag­ing the risks in­volved in the blank check merg­ers, four sources told Reuters. The re­quests have not risen to the lev­el of a for­mal de­mand just yet, but have asked that the banks vol­un­tar­i­ly pro­vide the in­for­ma­tion.

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