2022-2-25 09:00 |
Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo will each have to pay a fine for their part in flouting the Bank Secrecy Act and operating what the DOJ called a “money laundering platform.” origin »
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The US Department of Justice said on Thursday that BitMEX founders had entered a guilty plea to charges of violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to set in place an anti-money laundering system. Benjamin Delo and Arthur Hayes, two of the co-founders, have agreed to each pay a $10 million fine as part of […]
2022-2-25 11:00 | |
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Former chief executive officer of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, has turned himself into the US authorities on Tuesday in the case against the platform, him and other top executives, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed, for violating the Bank Secrecy Act.
2021-4-8 19:14 | |
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Arthur Hayes, founder and former CEO of BitMEX, finally surrendered to U. S. authorities in Hawaii to face charges that the crypto derivatives exchange and its executives violated the Bank Secrecy Act, according to a Bloomberg report.
2021-4-7 17:35 | |
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The criminal charges brought against Delo accuse him of violating the U. S. Banking Secrecy Act during his time at BitMEX. Delo traveled to New York for his arraignment before the court on March 15 in a remote proceeding.
2021-3-17 16:08 | |
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A co-founder of bitcoin derivatives exchange BitMEX, Benjamin Delo, surrendered to U.S. authorities on Monday. Delo, alongside fellow co-founders Arthur Hayes (CEO) and Samuel Reed (CTO), were charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act and conspiracy to violate the Bank Secrecy Act by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Department of Justice back […]
2021-3-16 13:40 | |
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U. S. Senator-elect from Wyoming, Cynthia Lummis, shares her “deep” concerns with the Treasury Department considering “a hasty rule” to govern the self-hosted digital asset wallets and the Bank Secrecy Act.
2020-12-18 21:16 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network charged Larry Dean Hamon, the founder, and CEO of bitcoin mixer Helix and Coin Ninja, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. FinCEN imposed a penalty of $60,000,000.
2020-10-20 18:24 | |
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FinCEN has fined the operator of early crypto mixers Helix and Coin Ninja for Bank Secrecy Act violations.
2020-10-20 21:23 | |
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It has been a turbulent few weeks for BitMEX. On October 1, it was announced that the founders of the crypto derivatives exchange would face charges from the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ). These charges include running an unregistered trading platform and violating the banking secrecy act.
2020-10-10 15:56 | |
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Crypto analyst Willy Woo has recently voiced his inclination on the great confidence he still has in Bitcoin despite its dwindling market price. According to Woo, the market has been unjustly overawed because BitMEX wasn’t hacked but its founders were charged by the CFTC for violating the US Bank Secrecy Act. He also states “No […]
2020-10-7 01:16 | |
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Prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges against BitMEX, accusing it of violating the federal Bank Secrecy Act. The CFTC has been investigating one of the biggest derivatives exchanges for some years now.
2020-10-3 19:31 | |
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Cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform Bitmex has been charged with illegally operating in the U. S. Concurrently, its executives, including CEO Arthur Hayes, have been charged with violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and are facing prison sentences.
2020-10-3 14:00 | |
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Arthur Hayes and other Bitmex executives have been indicted for violating the Bank Secrecy Act said the Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo,...
2020-10-3 20:17 | |
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Update 2: In a reaction to the CFTC levying charges against BitMEX, the latter released an official statement that read: “We strongly disagree with the U.S. government’s heavy-handed decision to The post CFTC charges Bitmex co-founders for violating Bank Secrecy Act appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-2 19:28 | |
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The head of the agency that enforces the Bank Secrecy Act and KYC requirements in the U.S. says the agency aims to help crypto innovate responsibly.
2020-5-28 23:04 | |
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Top financial regulators in the United States, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have issued a joint statement reminding cryptocurrency market participants of their anti-money-laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing obligations under the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), reports EconoTimes on October 14,Read MoreRead More.
2019-10-14 17:00 | |
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Cryptocurrencies have the potential of revolutionizing the financial world soon. The only problem is that it is widely used for criminality and other illegal acts like drug trade and even human trafficking.
2019-9-9 21:05 | |
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The Financial Integrity Network is urging the U.S. Congress to regulate firms in the cryptocurrency sector under the Bank Secrecy Act
2019-9-3 21:52 | |
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Good morning, and welcome to Moonday Mornings. Let’s take a look at the cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines from over the weekend. 1. The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is going after digital asset traders and has begun sending them letters asking that they report their cryptocurrency holdings and pay their taxes, Coindesk reports.
2019-7-29 10:55 | |
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To serve as a reminder to persons who have the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) obligations, the U. S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on May 9, 2019, issued interpretive guidance. The guidance focuses on how FinCEN money services businesses (MSBs) regulations apply to certain ventures that deal with money transmission whose value is not denominated inRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-13 20:00 | |
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On May 9, 2019, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued new “interpretive guidance” about how its regulations apply to businesses that conduct money transmissions in virtual currencies.
2019-5-11 21:34 | |
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After first issuing cryptocurrency guidance back in 2013, enforcement by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been out of the headlines in recent years. Now the bureau of the US Department of the Treasury is back on the bitcoin beat and taking action — dishing out a hefty fine to a prolific bitcoin trader accused of wilfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act by failing to register as an exchange.
2019-4-25 16:00 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
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The United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has ordered Eric Powers, the operator of a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange, to pay a fine of $35,000 for willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act’s (BSA) registration for failing to register as a money services business, according to a press release on April 18, 2019.
2019-4-20 23:00 | |
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The number of illegal activities in the world of digital assets has always kept law enforcement agencies on their toes. New reports revealed that the Financial Crime Enforcement Network [FinCEN] of the United States has penalized Eric Powers, a peer to peer Bitcoin [BTC] trader for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and its sub-clauses, including, […] The post Bitcoin [BTC]: Financial Crime Enforcement Network raises penalty on trader for violating banking norms appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-4-20 22:30 | |
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The American financial industry regulatory authority, FINRA, has fined wall Street bank Morgan Stanley for violating anti-money laundering (AML) rules over a period of five years, reported Finance Magnates on December 26, 2018.
2018-12-29 15:00 | |
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For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.
2018-12-3 19:20 | |
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University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.
2018-9-13 18:07 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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