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Andreessen Horowitz published a strongly worded letter denouncing a proposed change to how the government regulates crypto wallets.
The rulemaking proposal by the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) would require crypto companies to collect and report detailed, personally identifiable information about their customers' counterparties, which other types of financial firms are not required to do, the firm said. "Such an ill-advised regulation will have many foreseeable and unintended negative consequences."
Others in the industry such as Square and Coinbase have also come out against FinCEN's proposal. The proposal, released at the tail end of the Trump Administration, comes as the crypto industry looks to the new Biden administration for signs of how it will regulate the crypto industry.
The proposed rules were published in the Federal Register on December 23, 2020, and required comments be submitted by Monday, January 4, 2021. Kathryn Haun, general partner at Andreessen, pointed out that that was only six business days and called for at least 60 days for all parties to comment. Haun said on Twitter that if the rule goes forward, her firm would join others in challenging it in court. "There's a phrase in the law, 'arbitrary and capricious,' & that's what we think this proposed rule is," she wrote.
Tomio Geron ( @tomiogeron) is a San Francisco-based reporter covering fintech. He was previously a reporter and editor at The Wall Street Journal, covering venture capital and startups. Before that, he worked as a staff writer at Forbes, covering social media and venture capital, and also edited the Midas List of top tech investors. He has also worked at newspapers covering crime, courts, health and other topics. He can be reached at tgeron@protocol.com or tgeron@protonmail.com.
Galileo has a 'gaping hole' in its strategy. Can PayPal’s Archie Puri fill it?
The fintech veteran is tasked with working out what's next for Galileo as its first chief product officer.
Galileo Chief Product Officer Archie Puri is known for helping build payment platforms.
Benjamin Pimentel ( @benpimentel) covers fintech from San Francisco. He has reported on many of the biggest tech stories over the past 20 years for the San Francisco Chronicle, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Business Insider, from the dot-com crash, the rise of cloud computing, social networking and AI to the impact of the Great Recession and the COVID crisis on Silicon Valley and beyond. He can be reached at bpimentel@protocol.com or via Signal at (510)731-8429.
Asked when he first heard of Archie Puri, Galileo founder and CEO Clay Wilkes can't quite remember. "Boy, that's a good question," he said. "It's like asking me when did I hear first about McDonald's."
In the fintech world, Puri is a household name. She's a respected veteran technologist who helped build the pioneering payment platforms at trailblazing companies such as Braintree and PayPal.
Benjamin Pimentel ( @benpimentel) covers fintech from San Francisco. He has reported on many of the biggest tech stories over the past 20 years for the San Francisco Chronicle, Dow Jones MarketWatch and Business Insider, from the dot-com crash, the rise of cloud computing, social networking and AI to the impact of the Great Recession and the COVID crisis on Silicon Valley and beyond. He can be reached at bpimentel@protocol.com or via Signal at (510)731-8429.