It’s a tense time indeed for anyone running a platform for trading digital money.
The news: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has concerns about “unlawful online platforms for trading digital assets” that “appear to investors as SEC-registered and regulated marketplaces when they are not.” The agency says exchanges should register with it for the good of consumers.
Why it matters: For the moment, the SEC has little authority to police cryptocurrency markets. But Dina Ellis Rochkind, a lawyer at Paul Hastings in Washington, tells Reuters that the agency’s statement “foreshadows that it will be cracking down on the numerous platforms that are operating illegally and could be subject to market manipulation.”
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