2022-7-29 00:44 |
The Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued a cease-and-desist order to Voyager, saying it made false claims that its customers would have government protections. origin »
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A federal jury in Georgia has ordered now-defunct crypto exchange CampBX to refund the Bitcoin (BTC) it took from customers. The post US Court asks defunct crypto exchange to refund Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-5-12 21:45 | |
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A new lawsuit in San Francisco federal court alleges that Coinbase knowingly misled him and other customers into paying to enter Dogecoin-related sweepstakes to win the meme cryptocurrency that they could have simply entered for free.
2021-7-20 15:54 | |
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A new deal with NCR and NYDIG has opened up a way for banks across the U.S. to offer Bitcoin buying options to their customers. Forbes reported that the deal would enable community banks including North Carolina-based First Citizens Bank and credit unions including Bay Federal Credit Union in California would be able to offer […]
2021-7-1 02:30 | |
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Leading crypto exchange platform Coinbase has been sued in a proposed class action accusing the company of locking six users out of their accounts. Coinbase Users File Complaint, Seek $5Million According to a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court complaint, the Coinbase users allege that the company prevented them from accessing their accounts.
2021-6-9 17:29 | |
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Argentina’s Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) has introduced a new policy that will require crypto exchanges and payment groupers to file data on their customers’ monthly transactions.
2021-5-15 21:49 | |
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UAE to India According to the exchange, this partnership will allow an enhanced real-time payment system to function between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India. It will reportedly be faster and more affordable for exchange customers.
2021-1-28 23:39 | |
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Trading app Robinhood has agreed to pay $65 million to settle charges from United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). The Federal agency accused the firm of “misleading customers” about iThe post Robinhood agrees to settle US SEC charges for $65 million appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-12-18 19:30 | |
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has clarified that national banks and federal savings associations can provide cryptocurrency custody services for customers. The OCC sees banks providing crypto custody services as “a modern form of traditional bank activities related to custody services.
2020-7-24 17:30 | |
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U.S. regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), allows federal banks and national savings institutions to officially custody cryptocurrencies for their customers. The statement released on July 22, confirms that any national bank or savings facility can now hold on to unique cryptographic keys of cryptocurrencies in their vaults pertaining to custody services. […]
2020-7-22 21:40 | |
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A BBC investigation has revealed links between Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), and the collapse of the Wex cryptocurrency exchange in 2018. One of the sites co-founders claimed that he was forced to hand over customers’ wallet data and told the money (around $450 million) would go to “the FSB fund.
2019-11-16 13:06 | |
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The U. S. branch of the largest crypto exchange in the world, Binance US, has recently announced that now its customers will be partially insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
2019-10-19 18:25 | |
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The President of the United States has once again called on the Federal Reserve to significantly lower interest rates. For Dan Tapiero, of DTAP Capital, such a “debasement of the dollar” would benefit Bitcoin and other hard, store-of-value assets.
2019-9-12 01:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency investors may proceed with a class action lawsuit against Chase Bank, after a New York federal judge decided against the bank’s motion for dismissal. Originally filed in April 2018, the plaintiffs accuse the bank of charging undisclosed fees by categorizing their crypto purchases as cash advances, which are far more expensive than standard credit […] The post Customers Can Sue Chase For Hidden Crypto Fees, Court Rules appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2019-8-3 22:24 | |
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US-based bank, Capital One, revealed last night a data breach that exposed data of exposed the data of 106 million credit card applicants including names, phone numbers, addresses, and dates of birth.
2019-7-30 08:05 | |
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is coming down on Equifax Inc with the strength of an angry kitten. The credit bureau is reportedly expected to pay around $650 million after they exposed the private information of more than 145 million customers in the summer of 2017.
2019-7-21 04:45 | |
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The Police in Germany on June 28 raided an organized criminal syndicate, Chemical Revolution, a dark marketplace that allows its teeming customers to purchase all manner of drugs with Bitcoin. The latest development by the authorities in Germany was contained in a press release issued by the office of the Federal Criminal Police Office. The […]
2019-6-29 01:02 | |
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Apple has marketed itself as a company that puts customers’ privacy first, but a new class-action lawsuit claims to the contrary. Leigh Wheaton, Jill Paul, and Trevor Paul — three iTunes users from Rhode Island and Michigan — filed a federal lawsuit against the Cupertino-based tech giant alleging that the company unlawfully collects and sells their iTunes listening information to third parties without informed consent.
2019-5-27 11:23 | |
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The U. S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently filed a lawsuit against a crowdfunder who diverted customers’ funds to purchase bitcoin. According to The Next Web, the entrepreneur raised funds over $800,000 to buy iBackPacks but instead diverted the funds to personal use such as buying crypto and paying off credit cards debts.
2019-5-8 21:00 | |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on May 1, 2019, demanded answers from telecommunication companies in regards to their involvement in selling customers’ phone location information to data aggregators, Motherboard reported.
2019-5-3 01:00 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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By CCN. com: A Manhattan federal judge will have to decide whether crypto is cash in what would be a landmark decision for the budding industry. The ruling would have major implications for what laws and regulations cryptocurrencies are subject to.
2019-4-26 09:08 | |
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The San Juan Mercantile Bank & Trust International (SJMBT), a new bank in Puerto Rico catering to cryptocurrency traders, is now fully operational. SJMBT announced its receipt of all appropriate licensing from Puerto Rican regulatory officials to begin offering “fiat and digital asset custody and settlement services,” which are “to be integrated with the trading platforms offered by its affiliate, the San Juan Mercantile Exchange (SJMX).
2019-4-3 00:47 | |
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The Pakistani government will now regulate local cryptocurrency firms under new legislation. Local news outlet The Express Tribune reported that the government of Pakistan will introduce Electronic Money Institutions (EMI) regulations based on the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
2019-4-2 01:33 | |
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Ripple Inc now has a partnership with Federal Bank, a 70-year old Indian bank with $19 billion in asset and 8 million customers. There are no details as to whether the bank will leverage xRapid or xCurrent in their grand plans of increasing their remittance market share in India.
2019-3-29 15:10 | |
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CryptoNinjas Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA), a critical mission support firm, announced today they are teaming with Factom, to explore the application of blockchain technologies to the U.
2019-2-6 00:35 | |
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Silver Miller, a US-based cryptocurrency Investor law firm has filed a lawsuit against Jeremy Spence for allegedly organizing a Ponzi scheme disguised as an investment hedge fund claiming to be managing $5 million worth of investors assets, reports Finance Magnates on December 27, 2018.
2018-12-28 03:00 | |
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German blockchain startup Bitwala has launched crypto banking in Germany. After securing €4 million (roughly $4. 5 million) from VC firms Earlybird and Coparion in September of 2018 to develop a crypto banking solution, the company has allegedly amassed a waiting list of 30,000 potential users.
2018-12-13 22:32 | |
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Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.
2018-11-30 23:03 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases.
2018-11-3 00:33 | |
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An American man has fessed up in front of federal court judges, pleading guilty for operating an “unlicensed money transmitting business. ” A Department of Justics (DoJ) published a press release yesterday that details how Jacob Burrell Campos has been selling “hundres of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin to over 1,000 customers” across the United States.
2018-10-30 16:22 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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Ripple has been making headlines for the past few weeks and is still making a push for the number two spot on the top 100 cryptocurrencies according to CoinMarketCap. In the last month, it took over for a short time but slunk back into the third spot on the chart.
2018-10-10 23:00 | |
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Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation urging them to implement GDPR-like legislation in the United States.
2018-10-4 20:51 | |
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Three U. S. agencies have taken action against international bitcoin-funded securities dealer 1pool Ltd. , aka 1Broker. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says 1Broker violated federal securities laws.
2018-9-29 23:30 | |
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In what seems like the first coordinated strike from government agencies, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have taken action against a securities broker for violating federal laws in connection with security-based swaps funded by bitcoin.
2018-9-29 22:29 | |
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In a landmark case for the cryptocurrency industry, a federal judge has ruled that a cryptocurrency caught in the midst of a lawsuit is a commodity, court documents reveal.
2018-9-28 23:15 | |
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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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Mark Karpeles Urged a US Judge to Dismiss a Fraud Lawsuit Mt. Gox owner, Mark Karpeles, urged a U. S. federal judge to dismiss a fraud lawsuit. The lawsuit has be presented by former customers for the Mt.
2018-8-28 21:59 | |
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Once again unlucky CEO of the despoiled exchange got under the fire as his former U.S. customers brought on a fraud lawsuit to the federal judge in the state of Illinois. The post Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Asks US Court Drop the Fraud Lawsuit appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-8-28 21:17 | |
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Paragon, a blockchain company that develops seed-to-sale tracking solutions for the marijuana industry, is joining hands with Civic Technologies Inc. , a digital identity firm, to bring secure and trusted identity services to Paragon’s digital community.
2018-8-16 19:48 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.