Many Lawmakers and Witnesses Call for hearing exploring the crash of the crypto market
Zach Anderson Feb 17, 2023 09:03
At a Senate Banking Committee meeting dubbed "Crypto Fall," financial professionals and politicians discussed how to address the crypto market crash.
During a hearing that was called to investigate the collapse that occurred in the cryptocurrency market, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Gary Gensler, the director of the SEC, came under criticism from attendees. Throughout the course of the hearing, a number of legislators and witnesses directed their criticism in this general direction.
During a hearing on February 14 titled "Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed for Digital Assets," the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, Tim Scott, stated that Gensler should appear before Congress before September to discuss additional enforcement actions in the cryptocurrency space. The hearing was titled "Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed for Digital Assets." In addition to this, Scott has been critical of the chairman of the SEC for not testifying and instead "making rounds on the morning talk shows." The following was the focus of the hearing: "The Collapse of Cryptocurrencies and the Reasons Why Financial Systems Require New Protective Measures for Digital Assets The senator from South Carolina stated that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had not provided "the least amount of guidance," which may have been a contributing factor to the absence of investor protection at financially struggling businesses such as FTX, Terra, BlockFi, Voyager, and Celsius.
"to assume that the SEC has failed to take any significant preventive effort to assure that this type of catastrophic failure does not happen again" "to presume that the SEC has not made any significant attempt to prevent this from happening" "Have they just been dozing off behind the wheel despite the fact that they have every necessary piece of equipment? It would be quite beneficial if Chairman Gensler could make his way in here as soon as possible rather than later on, and deliver his views as soon as feasible.
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