BREAKDOWN: A CFTC Commissioner Proposes a New Definition of Retail Investor
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The commissioner hopes better definitions will lead to better investor protections.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and FTX US.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW covers a number of stories from across the crypto space, including:
- A new definition of retail investors?
- Mastercard gets deeper into crypto with Paxos
- Why BNY Mellon is going bigger on crypto
- SEC and CFTC look into Three Arrows Capital
- Paradigm files amicus brief in the Ooki DAO lawsuit
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, circle, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, October 18th, and today we are talking all things crypto, |
| 0:28.4 | including the CFTC's proposed new definition for retail investors. |
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| 0:45.8 | breakdown pod. Also a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:50.6 | I also work with FTX. All right, folks, well, as I said, today we are hop-skipping and |
| 0:56.0 | jumping around the world for a grab-bag show of so much interesting news, primarily from the |
| 1:01.0 | crypto space. And where we're going to start is with a discussion around the term retail |
| 1:05.2 | investor and what it means. So first, let's talk about how we colloquially use some common terms. |
| 1:11.9 | On the one hand, there are institutions or institutional investors. |
| 1:15.5 | This is a massively broad spectrum that includes everything from pensions on the most |
| 1:19.7 | risk-averse end, to family offices and hedge funds on the other side that can be much more |
| 1:24.1 | risk-taking, and then even more types of quote-unquote institutions or institutional |
| 1:28.0 | investors in the middle. Everything else nominally speaking are retail investors, or at least that's |
| 1:33.2 | how we refer to them. Now, as you can probably spot, the definition then is pretty expansive. |
| 1:39.0 | And more than that, if it really just says all individuals, it doesn't account for differences |
| 1:43.5 | such as experience or |
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