Hester Peirce
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Hester Peirce
@HesterPeirce
SEC Commissioner since 1/2018. My tweets may not reflect the views of the SEC or any other SEC Commissioner. No direct messages, but [email protected]
- Last week, the SEC's case against Ripple was finally laid to rest. A welcome development for many reasons, including that minds once occupied with litigation now can concentrate on creating a clear regulatory framework for crypto: sec.gov/enforcement-li…
- Replying to @SECGovThe SEC is a regulatory agency with an enforcement division, not an enforcement agency. Why are we leading with enforcement in crypto?
- If government wants to bring law to crypto, it should behave lawfully:
- Apparently, bitcoin is not ripe enough, respectable enough, or regulated enough to be worthy of our markets. I dissent:
- We have a lot of work to do at the SEC to advance free markets, capital formation, investor choice, and innovation. I'm delighted that Paul Atkins will be returning to lead the effort. Having worked for him during his last stint at the agency, I cannot think of a better person
- The string of bitcoin spot ETP denials has continued into 2022. The rationale underlying them doesn't get any better with time.
- As regulators seek to protect investors from fraud and get them good disclosures, we ought also to respect investors' right to make decisions for themselves, experiment, and use the latest technology to trade and invest:
- The crypto Task Force webpage is live. Join us for the drive (toward crypto clarity): sec.gov/about/crypto-t… and sec.gov/newsroom/speec…
- The latest regulatory agenda shows that the SEC will be busy in the upcoming months, but it won't be working on the right things:
- Congratulations to our new Acting Chairman Mark Uyeda:
- "Respect for individual liberty is a core American value: People have the presumptive right to make choices that affect themselves and their families, and government should be wary of overriding those choices." cnn.com/2021/10/11/per…
