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Recap: SEC–CFTC joint roundtable on regulatory harmonization efforts

Montage of the SEC and CFTC buildings.
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The SEC and CFTC recently convened a joint roundtable in Washington, D.C. to address how to modernize oversight between America’s financial markets regulators.

Over the course of three panels, commissioners, former agency chairs, industry executives, and market participants debated the merits of harmonizing regulation and how to protect customers and innovation simultaneously as questions regarding 24/7 trading, digital assets, tokenization, and cross-jurisdictional innovation swirl.

In their opening remarks, SEC Chair Paul Atkins, Acting CFTC