U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to voice her support for more sanctions powers over stablecoins.
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren has sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen commenting on Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on April 9. She pursued the same line of thought as she did during the hearing — Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism .its enhanced enforcement goals in response to gaps in current regulation in a document Warren calls a “letter to Congress” dated November 2023.
“Those authorities must be adopted into any legislation Congress advances to create a new regulatory framework around the $157 billion stablecoin market.”by Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Cynthia Lummis on April 17, the day after the date of her letter. The 179-page Lummis-Gillibrand bill makes almost no mention of AML/CFT.
Rather, it seems Warren had in mind a bill that is expected to come out of the House of Representatives from Finance Committee chair Patrick McHenry and ranking member Maxine Waters. Warrenthem a letter on April 8 voicing much of the same concerns as in her letter to Yellen. Warren concluded her letter to the treasury secretary by saying:
“Stablecoin legislation must include the full suite of AML tools that Treasury requested in its November 2023 letter to Congress as necessary to effectively combat that threat .”on X, possibly with the Lummis-Gillibrand bill in mind, “Would love Sen. Warren’s take on the new bill’s increased consumer protection language, added receivership text, or the Fed/OCC’s enforcement power. All this is conveniently left out of her talking points...
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