Hester Peirce, who has recently published a statement together with Commissioner Elad Roisman against the way the agency is regulating cryptocurrencies, has delivered her harshest assessment yet at an interview with Yahoo Finance. “It is disconcerting to me that for three years now I’ve been asking for regulatory clarity, and we can’t seem to provide any. I think this is…
Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, announces today that David Kornblau, a leading Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) enforcement practitioner, has joined the Firm as a partner and will reside in its New York office. Source: Dentons – Dentons welcomes nationally recognized SEC enforcement lawyer David Kornblau
The U.S. Senate confirmed Damian Williams late Tuesday as the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, the office of Senator Chuck Schumer said, making Mr. Williams the first African American to lead one of the nation’s most powerful federal prosecutor’s offices. Source: New Top Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn Are Confirmed – The New York…
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has had multiple dust-ups with crypto firms but even he says the U.S. won’t follow China’s lead in banning digital tokens. Gensler said Tuesday that the government’s focus is on ensuring that the industry adheres to investor and consumer protection rules, anti-money laundering regulations and tax laws. He made the comments at a…