LedgerX, subsidiária da FTX, está na mira da 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.
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.”
Vale ressaltar que o CFTC e a FTX US, o braço americano da bolsa de criptomoedas falida, interagiram entre si usando o LedgerX. Ele apresentou um pedido à CFTC em 2017 para se tornar um centro de derivativos regulamentado antes de ser adquirido pela FTX no ano 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
De acordo com o comissário Johnson, a CFTC determinou que a LedgerX mantivesse fundos segregados separadamente, sujeitos a exames mensais, trimestrais e anuais, e fornecesse balanços e extratos bancários verificados para provar a legitimidade dos ativos mantidos em contas em nome dos 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.
E ainda, de acordo com Johnson, a CFTC precisa de autoridade direta do Congresso para interagir com os participantes do mercado e forçá-los a entrar na estrutura regulatória dos mercados dos EUA.
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 x SEC
Há uma luta constante entre CFTC e SEC sobre quem receberá o sinal verde para assumir o espaço criptográfico e os presidentes de ambos os reguladores acreditam que o Bitcoin é uma commodity, embora ambos tenham versões diferentes de quais tokens podem ser considerados títulos e quais podem ser considerados commodities.
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.
Jornalista cripto com mais de 3 anos de experiência em DeFi, NFT, metaverso, etc. Parth trabalhou com grandes meios de comunicação no mundo cripto e financeiro e ganhou experiência e conhecimento em cultura criptográfica depois de sobreviver a mercados de baixa e alta ao longo dos anos.
