The Financial Stability Board states that crypto platforms must segregate clients’ digital assets from their own funds and clearly separate functions to avoid conflict of interest.
John Reed Stark, a former attorney in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Enforcement Division, says the ruling in favor of Ripple Labs “resides on shaky ground.”
According to Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, an appeal by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would only reinforce Judge Torres’s decision that XRP is not a security.
The mysterious entity called Eeon seeks compensation from Binance and the U.S. SEC, equivalent to 20% of the daily value of withheld funds per customer, totaling $1000 per day.
The SEC argued that just because it approves an S-1 filing from a company does not mean the firm is not operating or will not operate in “violation of the law.”