Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, who would need to get on board for crypto legislation to move, is highly critical and encouraged Gensler’s crypto enforcement.
U.S. crypto legislation will depend on Sen. Sherrod Brown, who amplified his view Tuesday that he sees the industry as jammed with fraudsters and abuse.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler – a Wall Street native – characterized the crypto sector as demonstrating the worst behavior he’s ever seen.a Senate hearing on Tuesday , the most important crypto sentiments may have come from Sen. Sherrod Brown , who tarred much of the industry as dangerous fraudsters.
“The problems we saw at FTX are everywhere in crypto – the failure to provide real disclosure, the conflicts of interest, the risky bets with customer money that was supposed to be safe,” said Brown, the Senate Banking Committee’s chairman, whose committee will probably have to agree to any crypto legislation to provide the industry a regulatory framework. “FTX was just the biggest and the ugliest.
Without Brown, a path for a stablecoin bill or a new blueprint for U.S. crypto market oversight is unlikely in the near term, and the Ohio lawmaker praised Gensler’s agency for what the industry has complained is regulation-by-enforcement.For his part at the panel’s routine SEC oversight hearing, Gensler reiterated his sharp skepticism of the sector.Sen.
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