United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler has hinted that the regulator has been rethinking its approach to spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products following a recent Grayscale court decision.
Speaking to CNBC on Dec. 14, Gensler was questioned about the long list of pending spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications. He said the SEC has “between eight and a dozen filings” going through the process at the moment.
“We had in the past denied a number of these applications,” he said before adding that the courts have weighed in on that. What followed was a statement suggesting that the agency could be changing its tack on Bitcoin:
“So we’re taking a new look at this based upon those court rulings.”
News anchor Sara Eisen asked whether he was referring to Grayscale. However, Gensler evaded the question, stating that everything at the SEC is done “within the laws Congress has passed and how the courts interpret them.”
Several large asset managers, including BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Invesco and Galaxy, VanEck and Valkyrie, are now in the race to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF. All applications have been delayed, but some analysts are confident that a batch approval will occur in early January 2024.
In a separate interview with Bloomberg’s Kailey Leinz on Dec. 14, Gensler also sidestepped questions regarding the number of filings for…
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