SEC open meeting next Thursday to include cryptocurrency panel discussion

Today, SEC or the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission declared the title of the upcoming cryptocurrency panel for its December 2 Investor Advisory Meeting. The title will be ‘Helping to Ensure Investor Protection and Market Integrity in the Face of New Technologies’. Earlier, on Nov.15, the Commission declared the meeting would be open to the public. Moderators and panelists will partake remotely.

The cryptocurrency panel discussion agenda will concentrate on the regulatory framework encompassing market structure, digital assets and outlining risk in upcoming technologies. Extra topics are anticipated to incorporate blockchain technologies, crypto-based exchange-traded funds ETFs and stablecoins.

Some of the panelists are in blockchain particular roles:

  • Tyrone Ross, CEO, Onramp Invest
  • Ali Emdad, associate dean and professor, Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management at Morgan State University and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Blockchain and Financial Technology
  • Kristin Smith, executive director, The Blockchain Association
  • Sydney Schaub, chief legal officer, general counsel and corporate secretary, Gemini

The rest of the panel comprises financial market experts and luminary law professors. A part of the meet that is devoted to the cryptocurrency panel discussion will start from 10:45 am to 12:45 pm EST. Introductory remarks for the entire meet will take place at 10:00 am EST and will be a webcast on the official website of SEC.

Readers can possibly expect queries on topics like the SEC’s current decision to reject approval of Jan VanEck’s spot ETF proposal and the nature of the engagement of the Commission with cryptocurrency firms, but the exact queries to be discussed by the panel aren’t still known to the public.

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