In a podcast aired on 24 November, SEC commissioner Hester Peirce has commented that the launch of a future cryptocurrency ETF is “definitely possible”.
Her comments could signal a change in the SEC’s stance on ETFs which until now have failed to get through the regulator’s screening process.
However, the comments by Peirce are her own, as she makes clear in the podcast, and not necessarily those of the SEC as a whole. Nonetheless, the commissioner has pointed out that she sees “significant intellectual capital” being invested by both institutional investors and exchanges towards the development of a Bitcoin ETF.
It is worth noting that Peirce represents one-fifth of the SEC’s regulatory body in terms of managing the entire regulatory landscape environment for security investments in the United States, so her views carry significant weight in terms of being a mouthpiece for the government body.
Peirce is perhaps better known for her criticism of how the SEC handled the Winklevoss twins’ rejected application for an ETF in July of this year. At the time, she commented:
“I think that one of the reasons is that in the past, with other applications for commodities – you might think of metals – [the SEC] also looked at the underlying markets. I would argue that this also was not the right approach at looking at those. Of course, that was well before my time here. But, in addition, I think that there is concern around new technologies, and I think some of that is reflected in the disapproval order.”
She added that she felt that the SEC in general treats innovation with caution, feeling that the body maintains it is safer to simply “put the brakes on” than to approve ETF applications. The commissioner suggests that the SEC needed to figure out a way of being less cautious and letting “innovation go forward” rather than being concerned about criticism if projects fail.
The ETF debate is a topical one at present, particularly with Bitcoin struggling to find any stability in the market, and along with the adoption of cryptocurrencies by institutional investors, the approval of ETFs is now being seen as the industry’s saving grace.
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