Managing Innovation in the Regulation of US Financial Markets

Technological innovations often enable the creation of new products that both enhance and disrupt financial markets. Although new technologies can offer meaningful improvements in efficiency, transparency, and accessibility, they also yield products and forms of enterprise that pose significant regulatory challenges.

Most recently, innovative technologies such as digital assets, blockchain systems, and generative AI, have begun to play an increasingly important role in the global finance landscape. A common characteristic of innovative products and services, such as those enabled by blockchain systems, is that they often do not fit neatly into existing regulatory regimes.