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SEC Chair Atkins calls Form S-1 registration completely inapt for crypto
“It's called an S one and it takes lots of lawyers and accountants to try to figure, figure out how to do it for an existing company, much less for a new digital asset, the crypto sort of asset that you know, where the form is completely an app. There's no boar…”
SEC Chair Atkins plans to streamline rulebook with focus on materiality
“That is part of my program for this year and going into next is to go through our rule book. We need a spring cleaning. We need to clean out the attic of the basement and the garage, and to really look at things. Unlike the agency has ever done before with a r…”
SEC Chair Atkins says financial industry nears T+0 on-chain settlement
“There are so many benefits to come from distributed letter ledger technology for the financial services industry, where we're right at the cusp of achieving a T zero, basically, you know, immediate delivery versus payment receipt versus payment on chain.”
SEC Chair Atkins will propose rule changing corporate financial reporting frequency
“And we are going to come out with a proposed rule and seek comment on it.”
SEC Chair Atkins will propose new accredited investor rules in 2026
“So anyway, so I think we have to take a fresh look at all this, and we are going to do that here this year and with a proposed rule to address that.”
SEC Chair Atkins says investment returns increasingly bypass the public
“The return on investment is you know, mainly to the insiders, private equity, venture capital the corporate officers and employees versus the public because they're mature companies when they actually go public.”
SEC Chair Atkins aims for super app regulatory framework within two years
“So my dream is one day that, and I hope we can achieve that here in the next couple of years to have like a super app approach where, you know, there is, okay, blurred lines between the two, but we've coordinated our approach.”
SEC Chair Atkins aims to expand private market access in retirement plans
“We're working with the department of labor and the treasury department to address this.”
SEC Chair Atkins says equity investment culture is absent in Europe
“What they also really envy is our risk appetite here in the United States where people are, have an equity investment culture, and that is really largely absent in Japan. And in Europe”
SEC Chair Atkins notes CFTC-regulated LedgerX protected customer funds during FTX collapse
“There was one part of FTX that didn't implode with the rest of it. And that was their investment in a swaps trading platform called ledger X was, which was supervised by the CFTC and examined and they had they had their accounts segregated and all that. So no …”
SEC Chair Atkins says SEC and CFTC turf wars killed financial products
“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.”
SEC Chair Atkins favors CFTC self-certification model for new SEC products
“From my perspective one thing for new products that the CFTC has is called self-certification. So for repetitive products that you know, once you go ahead and approve the general type of framework for it then it's self-certification by the markets and by the p…”