ETF issuer requires SEC to approve applications in order of application


Exchange-traded funds (ETF) issuer Vaneck, 21shares and Canary Capital, wrote a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) urging the approval of the “first and document” principle of ETF applications with an order they submitted to the regulator.

The two companies believe that by failing to adhere to the first-to-document principle until the Crypto ETF debuted, the SEC reduced healthy competition and hindered financial innovation, the default process for applying for approval. This letter read:

“Reducing incentives to pioneer product development have a broader impact. It reduces investor choices, harms market efficiency, fundamentally undermines the Commission’s mission to protect investors, maintains fair, orderly and effective markets, and promotes capital formation.”

The letter continues: “U.S.’s global leadership in financial innovation is closely related to regulatory frameworks that actively support and reward entrepreneurship, creativity and real innovation.”

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The first page of the joint letter of Vaneck, Canary Capital and 21shares. source: Vaneck

Digital Assets ETF application accelerates After U.S. President Donald Trump took office, asset managers and crypto companies are eager to get approval for new investment vehicles in a bid to regulate the climate in the United States.

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