Ripple President Makes Big Statement On Ripple Vs SEC Lawsuit
Ripple Plans to Continue Fight Against the SEC Monica Long, president of Ripple, in an interview with CNBC, revealed that the company plans to continue the fight against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “We are planning to continue to fight the case all the way through,” said Long. advertisement The U.S. SEC v. Ripple Labs lawsuit has stretched for nearly three years after outgoing SEC Chair Jay Clayton decided to go ahead with the complaint, as well as pulling CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen in the case. Judge Torres handed Ripple Labs and its executives a partial win in the lawsuit, stating that programmatic sales of XRP are not a security, but institutional sales are investment contracts. In fact, XRP in itself is not a security. The SEC seeks an interlocutory appeal on the ruling, saying that the Howey test for securities proves it otherwise. Meanwhile, federal judges have called the SEC’s approach arbitrary, c...