Sec Speeches Cryptocurrency Statement on the Spring 2023 Regulatory Agenda

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Spring 2023 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which includes contributions related to the Securities and Exchange Commission and short- and long-term regulatory actions that administrative agencies plan to take.

Taken together, the items on this agenda would advance our three-part mission: to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.

Technology, markets, and business models constantly change. Thus, the nature of the SEC’s work must evolve as the markets we oversee evolve.

In every generation since President Franklin Roosevelt’s, our Commission has updated its ruleset to meet the challenges of a new hour. Consistent with our legal mandate, guided by economic analysis, and informed by public comment, this agenda reflects the latest step in that long tradition. Thus, I am pleased to support it.

I thank the staff and my fellow Commissioners for their dedication to the SEC’s mission and work to update our rules. I encourage the American public, whom we are proud to serve, to evaluate our rules through public comment.

Our capital markets are the deepest, most liquid, and most trusted in the world. Through this agenda, we seek to keep it that way.