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Comment: US CFTC member’s Kraken statement suggests bipartisan agreement on need for public input on digital asset standard

By Neil Roland
  • 29 Sep 2021 15:54
  • 29 Sep 2021 15:54
A US Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner’s statement about the derivatives regulator’s Kraken fine highlights what appears to be bipartisan agreement on the need for new public input on a standard for retail commodity transactions involving some digital assets.
Dawn Stump, the commission's only Republican, agreed that Kraken, one of the

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Neil Roland

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Neil has covered U.S. financial regulation for over two decades, mostly for Bloomberg and Crain Communications. He received a Loeb award for coverage of regulators' response to the collapse of Enron. He also garnered a SABEW award and some Jesse H. Neal awards for stories on the Federal Reserve's response to the 2008 financial crisis. Roland has appeared as a commentator on Fox TV, NPR, C-Span and Bloomberg TV. He received a Master's degree in public policy from Harvard and a Bachelors degree in economics from Cornell.

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