Tag: Gary Gensler
Another U.S. SEC Democrat to Drop Out, Leaving Republicans Running Agency by February
Commissioner Jaime Lizárraga is leaving January 17, he said in a Friday statement, which could give Republicans a head start on what could otherwise h [...]
Gary Gensler set to leave SEC on January 20
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that its 33rd Chair, Gary Gensler, will step do [...]
Crypto Foe and SEC Chair Gary Gensler Will Quit When Trump Takes Office
"In the last full fiscal year, according to the SEC's Office of the Inspector General, 18 percent of the SEC's tips, complaints, and referrals were cr [...]
Time for Crypto to Put the Pedal to the Floor
Cryptocurrency and the American economy as a whole are not zero-sum competitions. When crypto projects and small businesses succeed, we are all enrich [...]
Here’s How Quickly Gary Gensler Could Lose His SEC Chair Gig Under Trump
Gensler has been on the forefront of those actions, being openly skeptical of cryptocurrencies. Just last month, he reiterated his views haven't chang [...]
Gary Gensler’s Contentious Reign Over U.S. Crypto Approaches Its Twilight
Most of the crypto space is breaking the law, according to the narrative he stands by, and its practitioners are threatening people's money with dicey [...]
Who's Afraid of Gary Gensler? Not Don Wilson, the Trader Who Beat the Regulator Once Before
Gensler’s SEC has been vague about how crypto firms can register to legally trade digital assets in the U.S. Chicago-based markets giant Don Wilson th [...]
‘It’s Unlikely This Stuff is Gonna Be a Currency’
“You want one currency unit because it’s a store of value, a medium of exchange, a unit of account. It all has tremendous economics of networks,” Gens [...]
SEC Chair Gary Gensler Won’t Reveal His View on Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve, Reiterates Bitcoin Isn’t a Security
"Look at the leading lights in this field, in the crypto field just two years ago. A number of them are in jail right now, and I'm not just talking ab [...]
SEC’s Crypto Record Rebuked by Ex-Commissioner, GOP Lawmakers in Hearing
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was hammered for two hours in a congressional hearing on Wednesday in which the witness list predominantly [...]
Coinbase Narrows Demand for SEC Chair Gensler's Crypto Messages
Coinbase Inc. (COIN) is going after internal chatter at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that may shed light on its pursuit of crypto [...]
Judge Sends Coinbase Back to the Drawing Board Over Efforts to Subpoena SEC’s Gary Gensler
The judge took specific issue with Coinbase requesting documents from Gensler predating his term as chair of the regulatory agency. Kevin Schwartz, an [...]
SEC's Gensler Shrugs About New Crypto ETFs Strolling Through His Agency's Gates
The approval of new exchange traded funds (ETFs) for Ethereum's ether {{ETH}} is a logical next step to the regulator previously approving spot bitcoi [...]
U.S. Lawmaker at Center of Crypto Negotiation Predicts Digital Assets Law by Next Year
McHenry, who has been wrangling the crypto legislation in the House, argued that the outcome is assured by the massive level of bipartisan backing las [...]
Gensler Says ‘Stay Tuned’ on U.S. SEC’s Decision on ETH ETF
The SEC, after weeks of limited engagement, asked exchanges supporting spot ether ETF applications to refile their 19b-4 forms with universal language [...]