The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have announced that they will be holding a joint roundtable on Monday, September 29, at the SEC headquarters in Washington D.C. to discuss regulatory harmonization. The event will run from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and will be webcast live.
Executives from crypto exchanges Kraken and Crypto.com will join industry peers Polymarket and Kalshi on the panels.
In addition, traditional finance names including Nasdaq, Cboe, CME Group, ICE, Citadel, J.P. Morgan, Robinhood, Bank of America, and WisdomTree will also take part. Former CFTC Chair J. Christopher Giancarlo and former commissioner Jill Sommers are among those set to moderate the sessions.
Opening remarks will be delivered by SEC Chair Paul Atkins, CFTC Acting Chair Caroline Pham, and SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw. Later in the day, Commissioner Mark Uyeda will give remarks, while Commissioner Hester Peirce will close the event. Moreover, the public can attend in person with advance registration or follow online without signing up.
The agenda will cover three panels. First, the discussion will look at the history of cooperation between the SEC and CFTC. Next, it will examine how harmonization can help platforms grow while protecting investors. Finally, it will consider how coordination could expand options for participants and lower costs.
Panelists include Kraken’s Arjun Sethi and Crypto.com’s Nick Lundgren, alongside leaders from Nasdaq, CME, Cboe, ICE, Robinhood, Citadel, and J.P. Morgan.
The roundtable arrives during a period of change for both regulators. This year, all but one CFTC commissioner have stepped down, leaving Caroline Pham as acting chair.
Meanwhile, the SEC has ended several enforcement cases involving crypto firms and approved listing standards expected to speed up ETF approvals. At the same time, the CFTC has been reviewing tokenized assets such as stablecoins for possible use in derivatives markets.
Notably, Congress is also debating new rules that would define how digital assets are overseen in the United States. The House passed the CLARITY Act in July, but the Senate has not yet voted on its version.
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