SEC Chair Gensler holds tight to his crypto position in preview of Senate testimony

The official will testify before the Senate Committee on Banking on September 15, in a transcript that has been released, reiterating the primacy of securities laws in regulating crypto.

United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler on September 15 in the US. He is scheduled to testify before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs in a hearing titled Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The transcript of his speech has been published in advance.

Gensler called securities law a gold standard of capital markets. In a comprehensive 13-page discussion of those markets, the crypto market took up about a page and a half with footnotes.