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...“SBF is the poster child for all the negative assumptions about crypto,” said Charley Cooper, a former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...The Nasdaq decision “is a major setback for two reasons,” said Charley Cooper, former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...guys are bad guys,” Charley Cooper, a former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, told me....
...“There are a bunch of American companies who have built business models on the assumption that these crypto tokens aren’t securities,” said Charley Cooper, former CFTC chief of staff....
...“Battling two powerful regulators at the same time will take precious time and resources, and Binance will no doubt feel the impact,” said Charley Cooper, a former CFTC chief of staff....
...“This industry came to prominence after the failure of Mt Gox and the controversy of Silk Road,” says Charley Cooper, a former chief of staff at the CFTC....
...Its chair, Gary Gensler, had earned a reputation as a hard-charging Washington regulator, and had crypto as his next target....
...“An aligned lobbying strategy is perfectly legal, but Binance faces a unique problem of perception given the distance it claims exists between its global and US entities,” said Charley Cooper, managing director...
...Gary Gensler, the SEC chair, accused Binance of engaging in “an extensive web of deception, conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure, and calculated evasion of the law”....
...Gary Gensler, the Securities and Exchange Commission chair, reiterated a call this month that stablecoins need more regulation, saying he would work with Congress to develop it....
...“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu,” said Charley Cooper, managing director at R3, a blockchain firm....
...The cases underscore how the SEC is applying existing securities rules to police the digital asset market, which its chair Gary Gensler has called the “wild west”....
...Officials at the agency, including its chair Gary Gensler, are wasting little time as this year’s turmoil in digital asset markets has left investors facing big losses....
...The difference in reception that he and his SEC counterpart Gary Gensler got from senators at their respective hearings this week was striking. Gensler got a far rougher ride....
...Gary Gensler, the top US securities watchdog, pulled no punches in a recent speech about cryptocurrencies....
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