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Gary Gensler probablemente se dirige hacia la salida, y posibles reemplazos para el presidente de la Comisión de Valores y Bolsa están siendo sugeridos por el equipo de transición de Trump.
Aunque Trump prometió en julio despedir a Gensler el primer día de su segundo mandato, técnicamente no puede destituir a Gensler (sin causa) hasta que su mandato termine en 2026. Pero el enfoque principal del presidente electo para contratar un nuevo jefe de la SEC es el tema de las criptomonedas.
Entre las personas que algunos están especulando que podrían tomar el lugar de Gensler está Dan Gallagher, informó Reuters. Él trabajó previamente como comisionado de la SEC y actualmente es el director legal jefe, de cumplimiento y asuntos corporativos de Robinhood Markets. Gallagher ha criticado la SEC de Gensler y ha pedido cambios en la forma en que la agencia aborda la regulación de las criptomonedas.
En septiembre, Gallagher habló ante el Congreso durante una audiencia titulada “Desconcertado y confundido: Descifrando el enfoque politizado de la SEC hacia los activos digitales”. En sus declaraciones preparadas, Gallagher criticó a Gensler y dijo que la SEC ha fomentado “la incertidumbre regulatoria federal que mata la innovación”.
“La SEC ha estado involucrada en la regulación a través de la aplicación de la ley, lo cual es malo para los consumidores estadounidenses que buscan un mayor acceso a los activos digitales. Es malo para la innovación en las industrias de blockchain y activos digitales, y es malo para la ya erosionada y competitiva posición de Estados Unidos en los mercados de activos digitales”, afirmó durante la audiencia.
Robinhood no respondió de inmediato a la solicitud de comentario de Fortune.
Según Reuters, otro posible candidato para tomar las riendas de la SEC es Paul Atkins, quien formó parte del equipo de transición de Trump en 2016 y también se desempeñó anteriormente como comisionado de la SEC. Actualmente es el CEO de la consultora Patomak Global Partners.
Desde 2017, Atkins ha sido copresidente de la Token Alliance, que es una iniciativa de la Cámara de Comercio Digital. La cámara está dedicada a promover “la aceptación y el uso de activos digitales y tecnologías basadas en blockchain”, según su sitio web.
During an interview with crypto media outlet CoinDesk in 2022, Atkins said he agreed with the SEC and Gensler’s position that Bitcoin is not a security but also criticized Gensler’s approach of regulating crypto.
Patomak Global Partners did not immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.
Other reports have flagged names like Mark Uyeda, who started a second term as an SEC commissioner in January. Uyeda has been a commissioner since 2022 when he was nominated by President Biden.
He also has worked in several roles at the agency, including as senior adviser to former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and counsel to Atkins when he was a commissioner in the early 2000s.
Uyeda has been critical of the SEC’s approach to crypto as well. In an October interview with Fox Business, he called the agency’s crypto policies a “disaster,” adding that it had done nothing to clarify crypto rules.
He also advocated for change at the top of the SEC to reform its agenda on crypto in a Fox Business interview this week.
“The Commission’s war on crypto must end, including crypto enforcement actions solely based on a failure to register with no allegation of fraud or harm,” he said during the interview. “President Trump and the American electorate have sent a clear message. Starting in 2025, the SEC’s role is to carry out that mandate.”
Trump-Vance Transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to Fortune that no decision has been made on Trump’s appointees
Although during his first term as president in 2019 Trump declared he was “not a fan” of cryptocurrency and said digital currencies are “not money,” he has changed his mind since then.
Trump actively embraced crypto during his 2024 presidential campaign, and has also gotten in on the action first-hand, launching his own NFT projects that reportedly netted him millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency and licensing fees.
Meanwhile, Gensler has been successful in reaching giant settlements with some crypto companies, including the landmark $4.5 billion deal with Terraform Labs and its cofounder Do Kwon in June.
Yet, many crypto industry leaders have faulted the SEC chairman’s approach, criticizing the agency for not providing clear guidance on crypto and filing lawsuits against companies that have strived to comply with SEC rules.
In October, Gensler hinted that he may be willing to step aside.
“Democracies have consequences, but we’re going to continue to do that which we do well at the SEC until, as I say, the ref calls the whistle,” the SEC chairman said during a Las Vegas financial technology convention, Reuters reported. “Traditionally, presidents decide who chairs the SEC. That’s a good part of democracy.”
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