U.S. SEC chair says much to be done to protect crypto investors – Reuters.com

U.S. SEC chair says much to be done to protect crypto investors – Reuters.com

May 16 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency assets are highly speculative and investors in them need more protections or they could lose trust in the markets, Gary Gensler, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said on Monday.

Generally, people who buy cryptocurrencies do not get the disclosures they get when they make other asset purchases around things like whether the trading platform they are using is actually trading against them, or whether they actually own the assets they store in digital wallets, Gensler said.

"We have this basic bargain: You the investing public can make your choices about the risk you take, but there is supposed to be full and fair disclosure, and people are not supposed to lie to you," he said at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's annual conference in Washington.