News with the tag "hester-peirce"

The SEC's Hester Peirce called SAB 121 a "pernicious weed," criticizing her agency's closed-door approach to regulating the crypto industry.

The SEC's settlement with ShapeShift "adds to the ambiguity" in the crypto industry, the agency's Republican commissioners said on Wednesday.

The SEC's Hester Peirce slammed the regulator's approach to overseeing cryptocurrency calling its stance "unproductive" and "pointless."

The SEC needs to work more efficiently to regulate the cryptocurrency industry, according to one of the agency's key leaders.

SEC Commissioner voices her support for a spot bitcoin ETF, saying she has supported it for years and doesn't get the agency's approach.

"I know there are a lot of people who are very critical of the SEC and I'm quite critical often of my own agency as well," Peirce said in an interview with Coinage's Zack Guzman.

"We’re shooting ourselves in the foot by not having a good regulatory regime in the U.S.," Republican SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said at an event in London.