Crypto Becomes Next Financial Sector Under US Lawmakers’ Diversity Lens

Crypto Becomes Next Financial Sector Under US Lawmakers’ Diversity Lens

From coindesk.com

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, has asked 20 of the largest cryptocurrency firms doing business in the U.S. to explain their hiring practices as the panel adds the digital assets industry to the financial sectors it has questioned about employment diversity. Waters, who is also leading an effort alongside the panel’s ranking Republican to write legislation to regulate stablecoins, signed the letters alongside other committee Democrats, sending the requests to prominent crypto companies, including Binance.US, Circle, FTX and Coinbase, plus companies investing ... (full story)

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