Paul Atkins

Former CFTC Acting Chair Chris Giancarlo said he’s “already cleaned up earlier Gary Gensler mess,” shooting down speculation he’d replace the SEC Chair.

Chris Giancarlo, the former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair, has squashed rumors that he’s in the mix to take over Gary Gensler as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“I’ve made clear that I’ve already cleaned up earlier Gary Gensler mess [at the CFTC] and don’t want to have [to] do it again,” Giancarlo, widely known as “Crypto Dad,” said in a Nov. 14 X post. 

Giancarlo was a CFTC commissioner between June 2014 and April 2019, joining a few months after Gensler left his over four-and-a-half-year tenure as chair of the agency in January 2014. Giancarlo was later appointed as the CFTC’s Acting Chair from January to August 2017.

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