Top 7 Most Influential Women in Crypto
By Tolu Ajiboye September 9th, 2021
Coinspeaker is highlighting a distinguished group of women who have and continue to play key roles in the male-dominated crypto sector.
Hester Peirce
Hester Maria Peirce is an American lawyer specializing in financial market regulation. Peirce currently serves as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Hester Maria Peirce is an American lawyer specializing in financial market regulation. Peirce currently serves as a Commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). She previously served as the director of the Financial Markets Working Group at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. Peirce was confirmed by the United States Senate in December 2017 to fill a Republican vacancy on the SEC. She was sworn in on January 11, 2018, and her term expires in 2020. Peirce is a former staff member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and of the SEC. In 2016, she was nominated by President Barack Obama for Commissioner on the SEC, but the United States Senate did not act on her nomination.
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- Main Organizations:
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- Nationality:
American
- Location:
Washington, D.C., United States
- Education:
Yale Law School, J.D. (1997)
Case Western Reserve University, B.A. (1993)
- Current Projects:
U.S. SEC - Commissioner
- Previous Projects:
George Mason University, Mercatus Center, Financial Markets Working Group - Senior research fellow, Director, (2012-2017)
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - Part of Senator Richard Shelby's staff, (2008-2012)
Division of Investment Management - Staff attorney, (2000-2004)
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News About Hester Peirce
XRP Doesn’t Have to Be Security, SEC Crypto Mom Asserts
By Patrick Kariuki June 21st, 2021
The SEC claimed that owing to the centralized nature of XRP, it automatically becomes a security thus, it is under its scope.
New Hester Peirce’s Crypto Safe Harbor Proposal
By Benjamin Godfrey April 21st, 2021
Per the new version of the Safe Harbor proposal, if a project meets neither of the specified requirements, it will have a few months to register with the SEC as a securities issuer.
SEC Issues Warning on Fractionalized NFTs and NFT Basket Index
By John K. Kumi March 26th, 2021
Hester Peirce said that the SEC has a special interest in anything that could become security.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Calls for ‘Legal Clarity and Freedom to Experiment’ for DeFi
By Daria Rud February 24th, 2021
Saying that DeFi promises democratization, open access, transparency, predictability, and systemic resilience, Peirce mentioned the risks related to the industry. They include security vulnerabilities, scaling problems, and faux decentralization.