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According to Chairman Paul S. Atkins, the SEC's past policy of "regulation by enforcement" and failure to update rules has driven financial product innovation offshore.
Chairman Paul S. Atkins asserts that an entire generation of digital asset innovation developed outside the United States due to a lack of will from American regulators.
SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins has established a new integrated policy agenda called the 'ACT' strategy, which stands for Advance, Clarify, and Transform.
The SEC and the CFTC recently entered into a memorandum of understanding to increase harmonization by aligning regulatory definitions, coordinating oversight, and sharing data.
The SEC and CFTC have jointly published a 'token taxonomy and crypto interpretative guidance' to provide clarity on regulatory jurisdiction for digital assets.
The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance is conducting a 'first principles' review of all disclosure requirements, using the legal standard of materiality as its primary guide.
The SEC's Division of Enforcement is undergoing a 'course correction' to prioritize cases involving significant investor harm, such as fraud and market manipulation, over technical rule violations.
Following a court's remand, the SEC staff has been directed to reevaluate rules related to securities lending and short sales to better balance policy goals with reporting burdens.
The SEC's rules still default to paper delivery for shareholder communications, a standard Chairman Paul S. Atkins considers a relic.
Chairman Paul S. Atkins believes that decades of accretive rulemaking by the SEC have created a compliance labyrinth so complex it sustains entire industries dedicated to navigating it.
For years, the SEC addressed crypto assets primarily through enforcement actions rather than by issuing specific rules for the industry.
Chairman Paul S. Atkins stated that historical jurisdictional ambiguity between the SEC and the CFTC has stifled financial innovation.