ICYMI: SEC Chair Gensler said the crypto market is "rife with fraud, rife with hucksters"

ICYMI: SEC Chair Gensler said the crypto market is "rife with fraud, rife with hucksters"

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler spoke on Thursday with Bloomberg TV on its “Bloomberg Markets” show.

  • crypto is highly speculative
  • investors should not assume they’re getting the protections of the securities laws, even though the securities laws apply to many of the tokens
  • investors are not getting full, fair and truthful disclosure
  • the platforms, the intermediaries, are doing things we would never in a day allow or think the New York Stock Exchange or NASDAQ would do
  • the platforms often are co-mingling and trading against you and have market makers that are on the other side of your trades
  • and we don’t allow that in the rest of our securities markets
  • this is a field rife with fraud, rife with hucksters,
  • and…
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