🚨 BREAKING NEWS: SEC proposes new crypto custody rules for investment advisers and funds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is aiming to clarify how investment firms can handle and keep customer crypto assets ina new rule proposed Thursday.
The proposal "would provide a clear regulatory framework for the custody of crypto assets, giving investment advisers and funds a compliant pathway where none existed before — and replacing the grey of uncertainty created by custody rules crafted for a bygone era,” said SEC Chairman Paul Atkinsin a statement.
The SEC’s new approach would clarify what kinds of companies can properly hold crypto assets and how investment advisers and regulated funds need to keep records and make federal disclosures. It would also offer new clarifications of industry practices and auditing requirements.
According to the 760-pageproposal, the SEC will allow for self-custody by advisers seeking to hold their clients' funds. The agency is using the term "self-custody" as an asset management firm practice, not how crypto companies typically use the term. It would first require that an adviser can’t find a qualified custodian ready to take the assets, which would likely be an unusual circumstance after the rule is implemented, and it also requires certain expertise for the investment firm to hold crypto assets. Additionally, that ability to hold their own clients assets would have to be reviewed every quarter to see if a custodian has become available, an SEC official said.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is aiming to clarify how investment firms can handle and keep customer crypto assets ina new rule proposed Thursday.
The proposal "would provide a clear regulatory framework for the custody of crypto assets, giving investment advisers and funds a compliant pathway where none existed before — and replacing the grey of uncertainty created by custody rules crafted for a bygone era,” said SEC Chairman Paul Atkinsin a statement.
The SEC’s new approach would clarify what kinds of companies can properly hold crypto assets and how investment advisers and regulated funds need to keep records and make federal disclosures. It would also offer new clarifications of industry practices and auditing requirements.
According to the 760-pageproposal, the SEC will allow for self-custody by advisers seeking to hold their clients' funds. The agency is using the term "self-custody" as an asset management firm practice, not how crypto companies typically use the term. It would first require that an adviser can’t find a qualified custodian ready to take the assets, which would likely be an unusual circumstance after the rule is implemented, and it also requires certain expertise for the investment firm to hold crypto assets. Additionally, that ability to hold their own clients assets would have to be reviewed every quarter to see if a custodian has become available, an SEC official said.
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