Ripple counsel: SEC's shakedowns leave consumers holding the bag

Ripple counsel: SEC's shakedowns leave consumers holding the bag

The response comes as Ripple Labs and other critics believe the SEC has overstepped its mark on the enforcement of the crypto space. Ripple Labs General Counsel Stu Alderoty has hit back at a recent opinion piece by Security and Exchange Commission chairman Gary Gensler, arguing that the regulator's crypto market shakedowns aren’t protecting consumers. In an Aug. 28 opinion piece on the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) titled “The SEC Wants to Be America’s Crypto Cop,” Alderoty claimed the SEC is “pushing aside his follow regulators” instead of concentrating on providing regulatory clarity for....


Related News

Ripple CEO Says The U.S. SEC is Holding Back XRP’s Potential

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse reiterated his concerns over the lack of regulatory clarity from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Previously, both Garlinghouse, and Ripple CTO Chris Larsen, had expressed a desire to leave the U.S. due to what they perceive as stifling conditions. More recently, in a CNN interview, Garlinghouse said little has […]

Ripple’s Counsel Urges US Lawmakers to Urgently Pass ‘Sensible’ Crypto Legisl...

Ripple’s general counsel has urged U.S. lawmakers to pass “sensible crypto legislation” amid a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit over the sale of xrp. “Rather than providing regulatory clarity through rulemaking, the SEC is bullying crypto markets by filing unproven allegations masquerading as regulation,” he opined. Ripple’s Counsel Calls for ‘Sensible’ Crypto Regulation Stuart Alderoty, general counsel for Ripple, stressed the importance of sensible cryptocurrency legislation in an opinion piece published....

Ex-Fed Joins Ripple Labs as General Counsel

Payment exchange network Ripple Labs recently appointed Norman Reed as its general counsel. A law graduate from Columbia University, Reed started his career at a large international firm where he worked for three years. He later joined the prestigious Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he got to know Karen Gifford - Ripple Labs's Chief Compliance Officer, also a former New York Fed. "In the wake of BCCI - along with some other shifty things happening in the early 1990s in the banking industry - the Fed wanted to start up an enforcement group styled after the SEC enforcement group,"....

Charted: Ripple (XRP) Holding Key Support, Why It Could Rally Again To $0.45

Ripple corrected gains from well above $0.5000 against the US Dollar. XRP price is holding the key $0.3400 support, and it is likely to resume higher towards $0.4200 and $0.4400. Ripple started a fresh decline after it failed to clear the $0.5500 resistance against the US dollar. The price is still holding the $0.3400 support […]

Ripple counsel slams SEC for trying to bulldoze and bankrupt crypto

“Like a hammer wanting everything to be a nail, the SEC is keeping everything murky so it can argue every crypto is a security,” claims Ripple general counsel Stu Alderoty. Ripple general counsel Stu Alderoty has slammed the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for trying to “bully, bulldoze, and bankrupt” crypto innovation in the U.S. in the name of expanding its own regulatory territory.“By bringing enforcement actions–or threats of potential enforcement–the SEC intends to bully, bulldoze, and bankrupt crypto innovation in the U.S., all in the name of impermissibly....