A picture of Gary Gensler next to Simpson's villain Mr. Burns . The continued back and forth between Gensler and the crypto community seems almost playful, except the Chair's antagonism has very ...

The SEC Office of Inspector General this month issued a withering review of Mr. Gensler’s leadership that would probably get a CEO of a public company sacked.

One of Mr. Atkins’s top priorities will be rolling back Mr. Gensler’s 885-page climate-change disclosure rule, which is a ...

Mr. Gensler said he hoped that the civil fraud charges against Mr. Bankman-Fried and charges with Ms. Ellison and Mr. Wang would show the crypto community that their operations must comply with ...

Separately, Mr. Gensler defended the merits of the agency's contentious climate disclosure rule proposal, maintaining the proposal will not burden small businesses and farms.

On Thursday, Gensler — a long-time Goldman Sachs partner turned veteran financial regulator — announced that he would be stepping down as the top U.S. markets regulator on Jan. 20.

Mr Gensler is also planning changes to how exchanges operate, such as by allowing them to quote stock prices in smaller increments, as marketmakers, their competitors, already do.

Mr Gensler confirmed the news on social media platform X after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said its 33rd chairman would step down on 20 January next year.

Mr Gensler’s detractors portray this as overreach. Yet he entered office with an urgent to-do list. His appointment in 2021 came a year after the Treasury market, the world’s most important ...