SEC fines Nexo $45 million in penalties
finextra.comThe SEC maintains that Nexo offered an unregistered Earn Interest Product (EIP) to US investors in June 2020, costing $22.5 million in penalties, and then an additional $22.5 million in fines to regulators.
As a result of the charges, Nexo has ceased offering the EIP and will go further to stop offering its services in the US. SEC Chair Gary Gensler stated: “We charged Nexo with failing to register its retail crypto lending product before offering it to the public, bypassing essential disclosure requirements designed to protect investors.
Compliance with our time-tested public policies isn’t a choice. Where crypto companies do not comply, we will continue to follow the facts and the law to hold them accountable.
In this case, among other actions, Nexo is ceasing its unregistered lending product as to all US investors.” Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the SEC’s division of enforcement added: “We are not concerned with the labels put on offerings, but on their economic realities.
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