{"id":292681,"date":"2025-04-28T21:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/new-us-sec-chair-says-crypto-sector-deserves-clear-regulations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:29:34","slug":"new-us-sec-chair-says-crypto-sector-deserves-clear-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/new-us-sec-chair-says-crypto-sector-deserves-clear-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"New US SEC Chair Says Crypto Sector Deserves Clear Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/large_-_2025-04-08T141052932_1744101755759.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"New US SEC Chair Says Crypto Sector Deserves Clear Regulations\" title=\"New US SEC Chair Says Crypto Sector Deserves Clear Regulations\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The new head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said that the agency has stifled innovation for the cryptocurrency sector by fostering &#8220;regulatory uncertainty&#8221; in prior years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Market participants engaging in this technology deserve clear regulatory rules of the road,&#8221; Paul Atkins said in his first remarks since being sworn in as chairman of the agency as chairman earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>He spoked at the SEC&#8217;s <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/crypto\">crypto<\/a> roundtable, which the Republican leadership launched to weigh how securities laws may apply to digital assets, an area of tension between the sector and the agency under previous leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins, who has worked with crypto firms in recent years, has widely been expected to take a softer tack with the industry. The agency&#8217;s previous chair, <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/gary-gensler\">Gary Gensler<\/a>, had targeted what he described as widespread noncompliance of the industry with US securities laws.<\/p>\n<p>Even before Atkins&#8217; arrival, the SEC has dramatically shifted its position on crypto in recent months, seeking to create new regulations for the sector and pausing or altogether walking away from enforcement cases.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the potential for the SEC to suspend trading of Chinese companies as trade tensions rise between the world&#8217;s two largest economies, Atkins said that the agency will take action if companies do not abide by US laws.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/cryptocurrency\/news\/us-sec-chair-paul-atkins-crypto-sector-deserves-clear-regulations-8275836#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said that the agency has stifled innovation for the cryptocurrency sector by fostering &#8220;regulatory uncertainty&#8221; in prior years. &#8220;Market participants engaging in this technology deserve clear regulatory rules of the road,&#8221; Paul Atkins said in his first remarks since being sworn in as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/large_-_2025-04-08T141052932_1744101755759.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[11915,6477,4251,10848,8353,32505,223564,18302,6352,5394,227686],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292683,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292681\/revisions\/292683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}