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Debate around regulation has also sparked commentary from the US Securities and Exchange Commission( SEC), with commissioner Hester Peirce saying at the recent Equities Leaders Summit in Miami:“ We ' re not trying to regulate prediction markets generally, although there may be pieces of prediction markets that do fall within the SEC ' s jurisdiction. Most of the action so far has been at the CFTC and state gaming regulators. But again, when it relates to issuers, there may be a case for us to regulate them.”
Peirce also addressed concerns around insider trading related to prediction markets, stating that
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