Overview
The Street quoted Alan Cohn in an article on August 20 titled "How Federal Regulators Are Playing Catch-Up With Bitcoin Craze." The article looks at the most recent enforcement actions and regulatory guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Mr. Cohn opined about the significance of the recent regulation: "What you're seeing now is the next round of regulatory guidance, and in a sense, starting to fill in some of the gray areas and the gaps that have emerged given the pace of development in this area [...] You're seeing an advance in the regulatory framework evolving around this new asset class."
Read the full article here.
