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The appointment comes as a House committee weighs a stablecoin bill that would appoint the Federal Reserve as crypto issuers’ primary regulator, and increase oversight of token issuances. At the same time, federal regulators have executed enforcement actions against key crypto industry players such as Coinbase, which alongside Circle co-founded
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert announced Thursday he would resign early in 2021. “With the agenda I laid out last year now complete, the Commission can fully turn its focus to the unwritten future,” he said in Thursday’s announcement.“A majority of our work has taken place in
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After the BitMEX enforcement action, are other noncompliant exchanges on the CFTC's radar? "Maybe," said Chairman Heath Tarbert.In an appearance Wednesday, the regulator largely deferred to his colleagues at the SEC on the question of whether ether in a proof-of-stake version of Ethereum would be a security or a commodity.He
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Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Heath Tarbert, recently discussed crypto at Harvard Kennedy School as part of a series of lectures that revolved around financial regulations.Tarbert talked about the agency and its stance on cryptocurrency, and how the CFTC team is still processing the information
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