SEC CHAIR ATKINS, CFTC CHAIR SELIG : Team Trump readies crypto plan so Americans can count on their future
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SEC and CFTC relaunch Project Crypto initiative to modernize digital asset regulation, aiming to maintain America's financial market leadership in the digital finance era.
We must act quickly to upgrade our rules and regulations to accommodate blockchain technology, digital assets and the legislation to come, or risk ceding these emerging markets to foreign regimes. Paul S. Atkins is chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
As new technologies reshape the financial services landscape, we must ensure that innovation thrives on American soil and under American law – in service of everyday Americans.
To that end, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are re-launching Project Crypto as a joint policy initiative to better prepare U.S. markets for the digital era.
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SEC and CFTC relaunch Project Crypto initiative to modernize digital asset regulation, aiming to maintain America's financial market leadership in the digital finance era.
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