Coinbase blijft op de Amerikaanse markt: CEO bevestigt
- Brian Armstrong, CEO van Coinbase, zei dat zijn crypto-uitwisseling de Amerikaanse markt niet zal verlaten.
- Tijdens een fintech-evenement in april zei hij dat zijn beurs overweegt het hoofdkantoor naar Londen te verhuizen.
- He said that leaving the US was “not even in the realm of possibility right now,” and there was no “break glass plan.”
- De beurs heeft ook een motie ingediend om de door de SEC aangespannen rechtszaak voor de rechtbank te laten verwerpen.
De CEO van Coinbase, de grootste cryptobeurs in de Verenigde Staten, Brian Armstrong, heeft bevestigd dat zijn bedrijf zich zal blijven inzetten voor de Amerikaanse markt nadat hij onlangs gemengde signalen had afgegeven over zijn plannen voor het bedrijf in de VS. Bovendien heeft de regelgevende zekerheid in de cryptosector in de VS de afgelopen maanden veel bedrijven buiten het land geduwd.
in een interview with the Financial Times earlier this week, on August 4, the Coinbase founder stated that his crypto exchange was “staying in the United States,” although other companies plan to leave or have already ended operations in the region due to regulatory lawsuits looming over crypto offerings in the region.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued multiple crypto firms in the past few months, including the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, and Armstrong’s Coinbase. As reported earlier by Bitnation, the regulator claims that both crypto exchanges operated as unregistered securities trading platforms in the US without the SEC’s consent.
Verder verklaarde de Chief Legal Officer bij Coinbase, Paul Grewal, in een 3 augustus-inkomsten voor het tweede kwartaal van 2023 that his company has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the SEC and believes that the exchange will win the court’s approval. “With respect to the litigation with the SEC, I want to be very clear. We do think we can win. We expect to win,” he noted.
The Coinbase CEO stated in the interview that leaving the US was “not even in the realm of possibility right now,” and there was no “break glass plan”—likely referring to what the exchange would do in the event of an emergency.
However, back in April, during a fintech event in London, Armstrong said that his crypto exchange might consider moving its headquarters to the United Kingdom because of the ‘regulation by enforcement’ policy of the SEC.