Former Western Asset manager Kenneth Leech pleads guilty to obstructing SEC probe

The SEC approved NYSE Arca’s proposal to list and trade shares of the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF, placing BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, DOGE, and XLM among eligible assets. The actively managed fund may hold five to 15 crypto assets, with USDC allowed for operational use. SEC Approval Names BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, DOGE, […]

This incident may undermine trust in remote work policies and impact future SEC funding requests, affecting its regulatory capabilities. The post SEC employees caught playing golf while claiming to work from home appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as the regulator whose quotes had narrated the industry's regulatory story. A retrospective on eight years of dissent.

The case highlights ongoing regulatory challenges in detecting complex trading schemes, potentially eroding investor trust in financial markets. The post Former US bond manager Kenneth Leech pleads guilty to obstruction in cherry-picking probe appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Summit, closing a tenure defined by crypto-industry advocacy and dissent from the Gensler era.

Leech's guilty plea highlights the challenges of regulatory enforcement in financial markets, potentially undermining investor trust and market integrity. The post Ken Leech pleads guilty to obstructing SEC probe into cherry-picking fraud scheme appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

The SEC proposed changes to Regulation NMS equity-market rules, drawing attention from tokenized-stock and RWA market-structure watchers.

Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not swaps under Dodd-Frank, directly contradicting the CFTC's own position in the KalshiEX v. Ohio appeal.