House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and a bipartisan group of legislators asked banking regulators to clarify "through guidance and other actions" that an SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin, which describes how a custodian must account for digital assets, is not enforceable.
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House Financial Services Committee members Mike Flood (R-NE), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), French Hill (R-AR) and Wiley Nickel (D-NC) introduced the Uniform Treatment of Custodial Assets Act. The proposed legislation would prohibit financial institutions from including crypto assets held in their custody as a liability on their balance sheet.
House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC) asked FINRA and the SEC for information on the process used to approve the application of the first "special purpose broker-dealer" eligible to transact and provide custody for digital asset securities.
House Financial Services Committee members urged the SEC to withdraw its proposed rule on “Safeguarding Advisory Client Assets.” The legislators argued that the proposal (i) deviates from traditional custody practices, (ii) increases the cost of custodial services and (iii) lacks a comprehensive economic analysis.
In a letter to the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the OCC and the NCUA, Senator Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) and Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC) criticized SEC guidance on the accounting treatment of cryptocurrency assets by custodians.