According to a notice published by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday, public trade companies are asked to inform investors about their involvement with the struggling crypto firms. Companies are now under federal law and are obligated to disclose their exposures or associations with crypto firms, which can affect their finances or operations due to the current instability in the crypto industry.

The fallout of FTX opened everyone’s eyes and drew all the attention of authorities and regulators to the industry. The mishap has opened the book of all the creditors FTX owes.

One of the major crypto brokerage firms, Genesis, suspended withdraws after the collapse of FTX and BlockFi, a crypto trading platform, announced its bankruptcy as FTX was one of its major creditors. 

Based on such incidents, the guidelines have been issued by the branch of SEC, Division of Corporation Finance; its main objective is to make sure public companies share significant information with investors. They also help orgnaisations with the preparation of documents relating disclosure. The company has not issued any new disclosure requirements, however, they have modified the existing one on December 8, 2022.

As per the sample company’s proposed disclosure shared by the SEC, the companies must disclose that any signs of exposure to crypto firms, that are at the verge of failing, have filed for bankruptcy, going through excessive withdrawals or suspended withdrawals.

Also,its mantadory to mention the precautions and steps they are taking to safeguard the crypto assets of their costumers and is the company having ‘reputational harm’ due to disturbances occurring in crypto market.

Last week only, Senator Elizabeth Warren has been working hard to create a crypto bill, and has also made the SEC, an authority to regulate crypto class. She has been asking the SEC to “suit up” after the crypto industry was hit by collapses and frauds. She even said SEC has “fallen far behind” to extinguish crypto frauds. 

Furthermore, during an interview on Dec 7,  SEC Chair Gary Gensler said SEC is “already suited up” and that the agency has taken various enforcement actions against crypto firms.