When he was chair of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Gary Gensler developed a reputation as a tough regulator. According to a Bloomberg profile, his name became an expletive to many on Wall Street—to the delight of Elizabeth Warren and her allies in the Obama administration. He faces a similar assignment when it comes to cryptocurrencies and blockchain as he enters the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair role.
Gensler's CFTC experience should stand the 63-year-old, whose "downtime pleasure" is dancing, in good stead as he takes over the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief's job under the Biden administration. As CFTC chief, Gensler was largely credited with bringing order to a derivatives industry
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