La subsidiaria de FTX, LedgerX, está bajo la mira de la CFTC

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Kristin N. Johnson said that the regulator of the US derivatives markets had “boots on the ground” at LedgerX.
• Johnson repeated remarks made by CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam, who said at a futures conference that his agency’s oversight was responsible for LedgerX’s ability to avoid bankruptcy.
• CFTC requires FTX’s subsidiary to have reserves, including a one-year liquidity reserve, and to refrain from touching, pledging, investing, or posing any other threats to functioning capital.

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On Thursday, a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Kristin N. Johnson, stated that the regulator of the US derivatives markets had “boots on the ground” at LedgerX, a US-based division of the FTX, whose CEO had recently resigned due to uncertainty surrounding the functioning of the firm.

At a conference on cryptocurrency regulation in London, Johnson was expressing her views on the matter and stated that the financial regulator was “monitoring and overseeing on a daily, if not hourly basis, verifying what we believe to be the case, which is [that] every dollar of customer assets held at LedgerX continues to be available.”

Es de destacar que el CFTC y FTX US, el brazo estadounidense del criptointercambio en bancarrota, interactuaron entre sí utilizando LedgerX. Presentó una solicitud a la CFTC en 2017 para convertirse en un centro de derivados regulado antes de ser adquirido por FTX el año anterior.

She repeated remarks made by CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam, who said earlier this week at a futures conference that his agency’s oversight was responsible for LedgerX’s ability to avoid bankruptcy. Johnson emphasized that LedgerX was one of the businesses left out of FTX’s bankruptcy filing on Friday.

CFTC’s Regulation Of LedgerX

Según el comisionado Johnson, la CFTC había ordenado que LedgerX mantuviera fondos segregados por separado, sujetos a exámenes mensuales, trimestrales y anuales, y proporcionara balances y estados de cuenta bancarios verificados para demostrar la legitimidad de los activos mantenidos en cuentas en nombre de los consumidores.

Additionally, she claimed, it requires FTX’s subsidiary to have reserves, including a one-year liquidity reserve, and to refrain from touching, pledging, investing, or posing any other threats to functioning capital.

She asserted that the CFTC always has “a number of options” for providing oversight to maintain market integrity, even in the absence of regulation.

Y, sin embargo, según Johnson, la CFTC necesita la autoridad directa del Congreso para interactuar con los participantes del mercado y obligarlos a ingresar al marco regulatorio de los mercados estadounidenses.

She compared the interaction between American regulators to “coming to Thanksgiving dinner” and added that “there are some folks you might not necessarily sit beside.”

CFTC contra SEC

Ha habido una lucha constante entre CFTC y SEC sobre a quién se le dará la señal verde para hacerse cargo del espacio criptográfico y los presidentes de ambos reguladores creen que Bitcoin es una mercancía, mientras que ambos tienen diferentes versiones de qué tokens pueden considerarse valores y cuáles pueden considerarse mercancías.

Recently, a polician criticized SEC Chai Gary Gensler and called his organization “power hungry.”

“Under Chair Gensler, the SEC has become a power-hungry regulator, politicizing enforcement, baiting companies to “come in and talk” to the Commission, then hitting them with enforcement actions, discouraging good-faith cooperation,” said Gensler.

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