Eleanor Chen

Eleanor leads TheWeal's Regulation Desk, covering the SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, NYDFS, OCC, and state-level securities and money-transmission authorities. She translates enforcement actions, rulemaking, and no-action letters into operational guidance institutional readers can use.

Eleanor worked in securities-enforcement defense for a decade before moving to journalism, including matters involving exchange registration, broker-dealer compliance, and digital-asset offerings. She reads every Federal Register notice that touches crypto so you don't have to.