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Turner Wright12 hours agoRipple court ruling makes call for regulation ‘more compelling and more urgent’ — former CFTC chairFormer CFTC chair Timothy Massad said he thought it was unlikely the SEC and CFTC would change their pattern for pursuing enforcement cases even with a recent ruling in XRP"s favor.5691 Total views5 Total sharesListen to article 0:00InterviewJoin us on social networksA former chair of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says that while the Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ripple court ruling may impact the way businesses and lawmakers address crypto, his call for regulatory clarity remains the same.


In an op-ed published July 7 in The Wall Street Journal, Timothy Massad and former SEC Chair Jay Clayton argued that lawsuits brought by the SEC and CFTC against crypto firms were “unlikely to bring about a significant improvement in investor protection and market integrity quickly”. The comments came before a federal judge in the SEC v. Ripple case issued a ruling seemingly in the blockchain firm’s favor by indicating that the XRP token was not a security.


Speaking to Cointelegraph on July 17, Massad argued that the court ruling didn’t necessarily limit the scope of the Howey test — the standard by which the SEC identifies a security — because the judge stated that institutional investors “reasonably expected that Ripple would use the capital it received from its sales to improve the XRP ecosystem and thereby increase the price of XRP.” In regard to any potential issues surrounding Ripple’s holdings, the former CFTC chair said that the SEC could consider an appeal of the judge’s decision, or lawmakers could step in.


“This clearly shows that we cannot create a crypto regulatory framework solely through enforcement,” said the former CFTC chair.


Massad added that he thought it was unlikely for the number of enforcement cases brought by the SEC or CFTC to drop even with the ruling seemingly taking XRP out of their scope. He proposed that the two regulators should work together to develop standards on crypto aimed at providing investor and market protection, either directly or through a self-regulatory organization.


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According to the former CFTC chair, the case could provide motivation for some U.S. lawmakers previously unwilling to consider legislation impacting the space. Representatives in the House Financial Services Committee are currently considering a draft of a market structure bill, and Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand reintroduced legislation aimed at creating a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets on July 12. Massad said:“[The Ripple ruling] has made our argument more compelling and more urgent, meaning that we can’t just rely on enforcement to get the kind of investor protection standards we need.”


Massad served as CFTC chair from 2014 to 2017 under U.S. President Barack Obama. He has previously spoken in favor of regulators approving a spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, releasing a central bank digital currency for payments in the United States, and regulatory clarity as the crypto space continues to grow.


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