Emeka Okafor
Policy Correspondent
- Based in
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Beats
- US regulation · Legislation · Agency rulemaking
- Education
- JD, Georgetown University Law Center
- Contact
- emeka.okafor@dc10audio.com
Emeka reports on financial regulation and legislation from Washington, with a focus on digital-asset rulemaking, congressional markups and agency guidance. He reads the docket in full and quotes it precisely.
Emeka has reported for DC10AUDIO since 2023 and works to the newsroom's editorial standards. Errors are logged publicly on our corrections page.
Latest by Emeka Okafor
Policy
Treasury opens a 60-day comment window on digital-asset broker rulesThe proposal would extend reporting obligations to certain non-custodial front-ends, a scope industry groups say is unworkable.
Stablecoins
Stablecoin settlement outpaces card rails in two remittance corridorsPayment processors report that dollar-token settlement now clears more value than cards on select Latin American routes.
Policy
Senate committee advances a market-structure bill after a marathon markupThe amended text splits oversight between two agencies and leaves the custody question to rulemaking.
Policy
EU supervisors publish the first MiCA enforcement statisticsNational regulators reported dozens of licence refusals and a small number of withdrawals in the framework's first full year.
Policy
UK consults on carving institutional clients out of the promotions regimeThe regulator says retail protections should not apply identically to professional counterparties, but wants evidence first.