Дочерняя компания FTX LedgerX находится под прицелом 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.”

Примечательно, что CFTC и FTX US, американское подразделение криптовалютной биржи банкротства, взаимодействовали друг с другом с помощью LedgerX. В 2017 году он подал заявку в CFTC, чтобы стать центром регулируемых деривативов, прежде чем был приобретен FTX годом ранее.

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

По словам комиссара Джонсона, CFTC поручила LedgerX хранить сегрегированные средства отдельно, подвергая ежемесячной, ежеквартальной и ежегодной проверке, а также предоставлять балансовые отчеты и проверенные банковские выписки, чтобы доказать законность активов, хранящихся на счетах от имени потребителей.

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.

И все же, по словам Джонсона, CFTC нужны прямые полномочия Конгресса для взаимодействия с участниками рынка и принуждения их к вхождению в нормативную базу рынков США.

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 против SEC

Велась постоянная борьба между CFTC и SEC о том, кому будет дан зеленый сигнал для захвата криптопространства, и председатели обоих регуляторов считают, что биткойн — это товар, хотя у обоих есть разные версии того, какие токены можно считать ценными бумагами, а какие — товарами.

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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