Tech Intersect #149: Digital Assets, FinTech, and Inclusion: Reclaiming My Congressional Testimony Time

“Coincidence or Coordination?” That was the name of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion hearing I testified before last week. I am honored to have been invited to testify at this new subcommittee’s first hearing, but there wasn’t enough time to say everything I had prepared. I think it was also a missed opportunity by the Subcommittee to explore the impact of regulatory uncertainty on marginalized populations. 

Today, I want to expand on what I did (and did not) have the chance to say during the hearing. This week, episode 149 of the Tech Intersect™ Podcast is about the federal regulation of digital assets, financial technology, and inclusion.

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Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:

• Concerns of the SEC using its broad discretionary powers on a piecemeal basis without providing clarity or a fair opportunity to understand the rules of the industry.
• How the Biden administration’s digital currency policy doesn’t provide the framework that it claims to.
• The lack of discussion of inclusion - even though it’s in the name of the subcommittee.
• The double standard of major banks’ perception of digital currencies and assets.

Links from today’s episode:

Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion Full Hearing

(My opening starts at 41:49)

Tech Intersect #135: The FTX Collapse, Congressional Hearings and Where We Go From Here

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Chapters

• 0:00 Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion: My Congressional Testimony
• 2:34 I testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets Financial Technology, and Inclusion.
• 6:09 What’s going on in the crypto space right now.
• 15:07 How executive agencies get their power in cryptoassets.
• 21:51 Financial Access and Inclusion in the Future of Work and Money.
• 26:34 Black investors are more likely than whites to believe crypto is safe.
• 31:18 Rein in unwieldy executive agency actions and empower the CFTC.
• 35:33 How to get smart quick with my DETACH webinar.