SEC Chair Atkins says SEC and CFTC turf wars killed financial products
Paul Atkins · They're Opening the Stock Market to Everyone. Here's What That Actually Means · Mar 11, 2026 · at 16:12
Paul Atkins, SEC Chair, reflects on 30 years of inter-agency friction between the SEC and CFTC before introducing joint harmonization efforts with CFTC Chair Michael Selig.
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“So I compare it to two fortresses with no man's land in between. And so the no man's land is littered with the bodies of would be products that people were unsure. Like, is it CFTC? Is it SEC? And the crossfire between the two just killed the products.”
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