The US securities regulator was honing in on publishing an official definition of “digital assets” for the first time... but pulled out last minute.
The United States securities regulator is holding off from ratifying the definition of the term “digital assets” in rules that govern reporting disclosures for hedge and private equity funds, despite proposing to do so some nine months ago.amendments to Form PF — a form that SEC-registered funds complete to disclose basic information about their fund so the regulator can assess potential “systemic risks.”for the changes.
Fast forward to today and the regulator says it's not going ahead with adding the definition, at least for now. “We proposed adding ‘digital assets’ as a new term to the Form PF Glossary of Terms. The Commission and staff are continuing to consider this term and are not adopting ‘digital assets’ as part of this rule at this time.”
The definition the SEC put forward for digital assets was an asset “that is issued and/or transferred using distributed ledger or blockchain technology” and included other commonly used terms such as “virtual currencies,” “coins” and “tokens.” Today the SEC finalized their new Form PF rules. The proposal included the 1st definition of “digital assets” in a rule. It is interesting that the SEC choose to NOT adopt the definition in their final rule.
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