{"id":76751,"date":"2020-12-30T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76751"},"modified":"2020-12-30T01:25:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T06:25:40","slug":"sec-gives-special-purposes-brokers-the-go-ahead-on-digital-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2020\/sec-gives-special-purposes-brokers-the-go-ahead-on-digital-assets.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC gives &#8220;special purposes&#8221; brokers the go-ahead on digital assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Opalesque) Christmas came early for many in the digital asset community by way of a statement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2020 that grants relief in the area of broker &#8220;custody&#8221; of digital asset securities. The framework laid out by the SEC will operate somewhat like a hybrid no-action letter\/safe harbor\/pilot program, pursuant to which &#8220;special purpose&#8221; brokers may follow certain, specific steps and custody digital asset securities during a five-year program period without the risk of facing an enforcement action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/683283\/SEC_gives_brokers_the_on328.htm\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) Christmas came early for many in the digital asset community by way of a statement from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 23, 2020 that grants relief in the area of broker &#8220;custody&#8221; of digital asset securities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76752,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751\/revisions\/76752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}