New U.S. SEC Chief Paul Atkins Says Agency Doesn’t Have to Wait to Impose Crypto Policy
Paul Atkins’ first public event as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was a crypto roundtable on Friday, where the new agency chief devoted his inaugural speech to assuring the industry that he’ll continue to remake securities policy to favor digital assets innovation.
The agency and industry have been awaiting congressional action to establish crypto market-structure oversight that will likely set guardrails, and Atkins told an audience at the SEC’s Washington headquarters that the regulator will work toward delivering “a rational, fit-for-purpose framework” for crypto.
However, in answer to a question from CoinDesk after his speech, Atkins indicated that the agency may be able to act to some degree during this…
