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Welcome to the SEC’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub). As financial technologies, methods of capital formation, market structures, and investor interfaces continue to evolve, FinHub will play an important role in facilitating the SEC’s active engagement with innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs. In addition to being a resource for information about the SEC’s […]
Robert A. Cohen, chief of the SEC’s newly created Cyber Unit, said his agency’s role is to facilitate and regulate new ways of raising capital. “We don’t regulate the technology, we regulate the financial industry,” he said. “Whenever a new technology or way to raise capital [emerges], a fundamental part of the mission is to […]
They were even more surprised when they asked the F.S.B. agent why the Russians were devoting such resources to the blockchain standards. “Look, the internet belongs to the Americans — but blockchain will belong to us,” he said, according to one delegate who was there. The Russian added that two other members of his country’s […]
The most intriguing part of the paper, however, is where Geis goes further, and inquires whether traceability could cause us to rethink fundamental corporate doctrines. For example, he points out that fraud-on-the-market doctrine is often criticized because some shareholders may benefit from the fraud – in the form of rising share prices – but do […]
On October 12, 2017, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee will meet to discuss blockchain and distributed ledger technology. Among other items, the committee will explore the implications that the technologies have for securities markets. As set out in the SEC’s notice, the meeting will be available via webcast on the […]