SEC’s Atkins Sees Crypto Work With CFTC as ‘Job No. 1 Right Now’

Coordinating cryptocurrency rules is the top task for key Wall Street regulators, US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said Monday.

“Crypto is job No. 1 right now,” Atkins told reporters after a meeting between SEC and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission leadership focusing on areas where the two agencies can work together. The regulators have also called out prediction markets, perpetual futures, and 24/7 trading as areas ripe for agency coordination.

“We just want to make sure that the rule books are in sync, that we don’t have any risk of arbitrage between the two systems,” Atkins ...