Commissioner of America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He served as acting chair from January to April 2025, before Paul Atkins took over on April 21st 2025. During his brief chairmanship the SEC loosened enforcement of accredited-investor rules governing who can invest in private-market assets. He and Hester Peirce were advisers to Atkins when the latter worked at the SEC under President George W. Bush. The trio of Republicans now hold three of the agency's five top positions.
Uyeda told The Economist that the SEC under Gary Gensler, Joe Biden's chair, had become a "merit regulator" enforcing law on the basis of political judgments—a power Congress did not give the SEC when it adopted the federal securities laws in the 1930s. He believes fewer digital assets should count as securities. He criticised Gensler's attempt to use enforcement actions to create a body of cryptocurrency law as "inefficient, because it would take years to play out through the courts".
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