As a professor of economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, he has focused research and teaching on public policy as well as digital currencies and blockchain, the global running ledgers of digital currency transactions. Gensler comes armed with receptiveness to new financial technologies and cryptocurrency. Clayton also eased rules for smaller companies raising capital in the market. Rules under the Dodd-Frank law that tightened the reins on banks and Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession were relaxed. Jay Clayton, a former Wall Street lawyer who headed the SEC during the Trump administration, presided over a deregulatory push to soften rules affecting Wall Street and the financial markets, as President Donald Trump pledged when he took office. The GameStop turbulence shows that “the SEC too often stands by while the stock market functions as a casino … with tilted roulette tables,” said Sen. Possible avenues for new rules that have been raised include requiring market players to disclose short-selling positions and restricting arrangements of payment for order flow - a common practice in which Wall Street trading firms pay companies like Robinhood to send them their customers’ orders for execution. The GameStop episode has bolstered political momentum toward tighter regulation of the securities markets, though Republican lawmakers and regulators generally will oppose new rules. Several Republican senators used Tuesday’s hearing, though, to argue against the imposition of new regulations in the financial markets, at the risk of stifling innovation and improperly expanding the government’s authority.
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No evident opposition to his confirmation to the SEC post has emerged, and approval by the full Senate is expected. Gensler was a leader and adviser of Biden’s presidential transition team responsible for the Federal Reserve, banking issues and securities regulation. Biden’s selection of Gensler to lead the SEC signals a goal of turning the Wall Street watchdog agency toward an activist role after a deregulatory stretch during the Trump administration. Gensler has experience as a tough markets regulator during the 2008-09 financial crisis as CFTC chair. We’ve seen what happens when markets don’t have real safeguards, and most people are left to fend for themselves - just look at the electricity market in Texas.” “And it means working with other agencies - the banking regulators - to head off growing problems before they become emergencies that hurt the economy. “That means upgrading climate-risk disclosure requirements that are out of date, punishing misconduct and enforcing the protections on the books,” said the committee chair, Sen. … And above all, it means making sure our markets serve the needs of working families.”ĭemocratic senators urged Gensler to take up requiring corporations to fully disclose their climate change risks and political spending, and punishing companies for violations of securities laws. “It means promoting efficiency and competition, so our markets operate with lower costs to companies and higher returns to investors. That will enable people “to invest with confidence and be protected from fraud and manipulation,” he said. If confirmed to the SEC post, Gensler said, he would work to strengthen transparency and accountability in the markets. Robinhood offers commission-free trading, but critics say customers pay another, hidden price because Robinhood provides their data on buying and selling to Wall Street firms.
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