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U.S. SEC Chair confirms the watchdog has no intention to ban crypto

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U.S. SEC Chair confirms the watchdog has no intention to ban crypto

Gary Gensler, the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has confirmed that his agency neither has the authority to ban cryptocurrency nor does he have the intention to do so.

He said this at a hearing of the U.S House Committee on Financial Services.

While responding to questions during the hearing, Gensler made it clear that prohibiting crypto does not fall within the SEC’s mandate, stating, “That would be up to Congress.”

What the US SEC Chair is saying

Gensler stated, “It’s a matter of how we get this field within the investor consumer protection that we have and also working with bank regulators and others — how do we ensure that the Treasury department has it within anti-money laundering, tax compliance.”

“Many of these tokens do meet the test of being an investment contract, or a note, or a security.”

He also emphasized the need to bring crypto “within the investor protection remit of the SEC.,” while also noting “the financial stability issues that stablecoins could raise” as a priority for the agency.

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A Representative, Patrick McHenry seemed to be displeased with the SEC chair as he took aim at the actions and stance taken by SEC regarding digital assets under Gensler’s leadership during the hearing, accusing the SEC head of failing to act in accordance with the agency’s “long-held practice of noticing comment on rulemaking and procedures.”

McHenry stated, “Some of those comments you have made have raised questions in the marketplace and made things less than clear. You’ve made seemingly off the cuff remarks that move markets, you’ve disregarded rule-making by putting a statement out without due process, and you’ve essentially run roughshod over American investors.”

McHenry also cited comments made by Gensler to the Committee in 2019 while he was teaching at MIT in which he criticized past rulings from the SEC classifying Bitcoin and Ether as commodities.

When asked of his current views on the matter, Gensler stated, “I’m not going to get into any one token, but I think the securities laws are quite clear — if you’re raising money and the investing public have a reasonable expectation of profits based on the efforts of others, that fits within the securities law.”

The hearing came on the same day that McHenry proposed the Clarity for Digital Tokens Act of 2021, which draws heavily on the safe harbour proposal put forward by a pro-crypto SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce in February 2020.

During the hearing, McHenry pressed Gensler on whether he had taken the time to review Peirce’s proposal, to which the SEC boss responded, “Commissioner Peirce and I have talked on her thoughts around a potential safe harbor. I think that the challenge for the American public is that if we don’t oversee this and bring in investor protection, people are going to get hurt.”

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