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Ripple's Larsen Says US Risks Losing Stewardship of Global Financial System to China, Disses SEC
Chris Larsen said China's "itching" to be the one that designs the next financial system, and that the U.S. is "woefully behind."
Chris Larsen, Ripple co-founder and chairman of the payments technology company's board of directors, said China's "itching" to be the one that designs the next financial system, and that the U.S. is "woefully behind."
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- Speaking at the LA Blockchain Summit last week, Larsen said the U.S. needs to realize it's in a tech "cold war" with China, with the fate of control of the world's financial system at stake. Right now, China's winning, he said.
- "China is just itching to be the one that designs this next system," Larsen said. "They've committed $1.4 trillion to a variety of technologies and blockchain is right at the top of their list."
- It's not just that China's pumping money into technology, the regulatory environment in the U.S. is actively discouraging financial innovation, he said.
- "I just have to say it, in the U.S., all things blockchain, digital currency, they start and end with the SEC," Larsen said, referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission. "Instead of pivoting to encouraging U.S. innovation to keep up, they've done the opposite."
- "We're going to have to change up here or we're going to lose our leadership, stewardship of the global financial system," he said. "That would be a tragedy."
- As CoinDesk reported at the time, Larsen also said his company may leave the U.S. if the regulatory environment doesn't improve.
See also: SEC Will Be Forced to Give Crypto Guidance Despite Bureaucracy, Risk-Avoidance: Peirce
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Reynolds was the editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.
