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SEC Chair Gensler Speaks About Approval of Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Products

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This includes, for example, Regulation Best Interest when broker-dealers recommend ETPs to retail investors, as well as a fiduciary duty under the Investment Advisers Act for investment advisers. See also Chainalysis, “Crypto Money Laundering: Four Exchange Deposit Addresses Received Over $1 Billion in Illicit Funds in 2022” (Jan.

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The FTX Collapse: Why Did Due Diligence, Regulation, and Governance Evaporate?

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FTX [1] is a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2019 that, at its peak in 2021, had over 1 million users, making it the world’s third largest crypto exchange by volume. Cryptocurrency is neither a currency, nor an object. Different crypto assets represent different things. Is it a financial asset? Key message.

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Let’s Stop Treating Crypto as If It Were Finance

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To avoid financial contagion and unnecessary risks to the traditional financial system, the best course of action is twofold. Like finance, it’s made up of “exchanges” and “brokers” and “lenders” and “deposits” and “hedge funds,” all busily trading coins and derivatives on Wall Street and its virtual extensions. The answer is simple.

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SEC Chair Gensler Speaks on Crypto and the Securities Laws

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The Securities Act of 1933 was about companies raising money from the public. That statute covered intermediaries, such as the exchanges themselves and the broker-dealers. They understood that, when advisers manage someone else’s money, there may be additional opportunities for conflicts of interest between those advisers and clients.

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SEC Chair Gensler Speaks on Crypto Markets

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This is quite different than crypto asset platforms, which have millions and sometimes tens of millions of retail customers directly buying and selling on the platform without going through a broker. Even fewer, if any, are actually operating like money. Currently, the venues that the SEC oversees solely trade securities.

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A Top DOJ Official Speaks on Corporate Enforcement and Compliance

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Whether the defendants held positions as executives of public companies, traders at Wall Street banks, founders of cryptocurrency companies, medical professionals, or high-ranking foreign officials, our prosecution teams pursued difficult cases through trial and conviction. Crypto markets can be volatile yet alluring to many.

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SEC Chair Gensler Testifies Before U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee

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These statutes created requirements and regulations around disclosure, registration, exchanges, and broker-dealers, and established the SEC to oversee the markets. We are the destination of choice for companies seeking to raise money in both public and private markets. We can’t shrink when we’re trying to maintain a gold standard.