In FedScoop, JR Drabick Discusses SEC-CFTC Data-Sharing Agreement

In The News
March 20, 2026

Ropes & Gray litigation & enforcement partner JR Drabick was quoted in a new article in FedScoop examining the recently signed memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the SEC and CFTC and its implications for data sharing and crypto regulation.

In the article, Drabick, a former SEC enforcement attorney and federal prosecutor, notes that the MOU seeks to establish "more automated, institutional sharing of data as opposed to … one-off access, request-based data-sharing." On the agreement's enhanced cooperation provisions, he sees an opportunity "for collaboration [and] harmonization that could have a big difference in terms of how crypto is actually on-the-ground regulated, and [how] fraud in the crypto markets is enforced."