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On November 14, 2016, SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar spoke at the SEC's Financial Technology Forum, calling for the SEC to take "the lead regulatory role" in the FinTech space.
On November 14, 2016, SEC Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar spoke
at the SEC's Financial Technology Forum, calling for the SEC to
take "the lead regulatory role" in the FinTech space,
noting that the SEC is "uniquely situated" to do so.
Piwowar claimed the current regulatory struggle for financial
technology firms is not dealing with any specific regulation, but
dealing with navigating multiple regulators and possibly
contradictory regulation. He stated that the SEC is the ideal
regulator for FinTech companies because many financial technology
firms are already SEC registrants and the SEC has a unique mandate
and capacity to regulate the emerging industry.
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