DislikedRegulation should go as far as:
1) Registration
2) Cap reserves in case of emergency (audited)
3) Audited financials
4) Qualified persons
5) thats it - the rest the consumer can decide what they want to do.Ignored
Registration is nonsense.
Having an insurance fund is nice to think about, but we are investors; we should understand the risks involved. It should be a choice, not a requirement; let client demand dictate and the rest will fall into place. Even operational solvency assurances would be nice, but again, we do not need government involvement here; let businesses fail or succeed on their own merits.
Audited financials is nonsense unless we want a guaranteed insurance fund or guaranteed-operational assurances etc.. As for the other stuff, let the IRS, FBI and other groups do their jobs.
Qualified persons is subjective; experience will usually trump a degree in most cases.
KYC requirements for retail traders is total nonsense. If retail trader is going to launder money or fund some criminal group, they are certainly not going to use a forex broker for that because there is no need to, and doing so would not be practical at all. This kind of activity should not even fall within the scope of regulators; we have law enforcement groups that are paid from our tax dollars to carry out investigations in order to catch these kinds of criminals.
At what point do we draw the line on over-regulation and governance? How far should we go to sacrifice our liberties, freedoms and privacy for a false sense of security? When regulation has become so restrictive and prohibitive, that it no longer serves the good of the people and even acts as a deterrent for well-intentioned business owners, at what point do we say enough is enough?
Maybe I am wrong about some of these things, and if so, I will concede to that. But surely, things do not need to be this complicated.
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