2020-6-16 21:07 |
UK fintech bank Revolut will give its customers legal ownership over their cryptocurrencies next month, but will limit how they can spend those coins. origin »
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The digital bank N26 has stopped its operations in the United Kingdom for the time being over legal concerns regarding Brexit. N26 is among the largest digital banks, but UK customers will soon find that its services have been terminated.
2020-2-12 19:10 | |
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Hawaiian lawmakers have submitted a bill SB2594 on Jan. 18 that would make it legal for the banks to provide custody for digital assets. As per this bill, Hawaiin banks will be allowed to hold “Digital asset,” “Digital consumer assets,” “Digital security,” “Virtual currency,” and any other “open blockchain token” for their customers. Banks can […]
2020-1-24 19:33 | |
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Nintendo has a reputation for treating its customers badly. Despite this, they’ve built up a friendly company image by trading on nostalgia for their IP. Nintendo appears to be breaking EU law and is now defending itself in court.
2019-11-15 22:47 | |
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Wirex, a crypto payment wallet and service company, has announced the launch of a brand new next-generation Wirex Visa Travelcard. The travel card will empower customers across the APAC region to spend multiple crypto and fiat currencies, and earn crypto rewards wherever they travel.
2019-11-11 13:03 | |
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Coinbase has secured a new legal foothold in Europe. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange has received an e-money license from the Bank of Ireland, which it can potentially use to continuing serving its customers across the continent, in case Brexit causes any disruptions.
2019-10-14 17:18 | |
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If you think about it, you’ll probably agree that Domino’s has a point in its recent legal case. Requiring businesses to make sure every digital mode of sales and marketing they offer is equally accessible to disabled customers is a major burden that doesn’t seem to fall on them for non-digital offerings (e.
2019-10-3 18:52 | |
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Russians have no qualms with pirated games, software, movies, TV shows, and music, a new survey reveals. Only 9 percent of Russian netizens prefer sticking to exclusively legal content, according to data from security firm ESET reviewed by TorrentFreak.
2019-9-25 15:58 | |
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A court in New York has denied Bitfinex and Tether’s parent company iFinex’s latest motion to avoid the legal clap back from its $850 million cover-up. iFinex claimed that the New York State Attorney General (NYAG) lacked the relevant jurisdiction to investigate the cryptocurrency exchange and stablecoin issuer as it claims it doesn’t serve customers in the state.
2019-8-20 12:42 | |
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A new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.
2019-8-7 23:12 | |
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iFinex, the company that owns and operates Tether and Bitfinex, said that the claims made by the New York Attorney General’s office that the companies served New York residents throughout last year were “misleading.
2019-7-24 12:56 | |
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Changpeng Zhao, Co-founder and CEO of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, addressed major concerns regarding their new platform, Binance US, in a recent AMA. The exchange recently announced the launch of an exchange platform that would be dedicated solely to US customers.
2019-6-18 17:30 | |
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There has been a lot of volatility experienced in the regulatory atmosphere over the last year around the world. However, Ripple recently gave an update to their customers about the Ripple Regional event, which was based in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
2019-5-30 01:22 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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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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The Bitfinex-Tether fiasco took a new turn after Bitfinex and Tether released an official response to the allegations made against it by the New York Attorney General’s office. Bitfinex’s and Tether’s parent company, iFinex, moved to vacate the court order, claiming that the order was based on ‘inaccurate or incorrect facts and wrong legal standard’.
2019-5-6 13:56 | |
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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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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
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By CCN. com: Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has reportedly carried out unscheduled onsite inspections at cryptocurrency exchanges Huobi Japan and Fisco Digital Asset Group(FDAG). According to Reuters, the inspection is taking place so that the regulatory body can find out if the exchanges have been taking adequate steps to protect their customers, as well as to check for legal compliance.
2019-4-24 16:29 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is looking into two major cryptocurrency exchange platforms as part of an investigation. According to a report published by Reuters Japan on April 23, 2019, the investigation by the financial watchdog is connected to the legal compliance and customer protection standards of trading platforms Fisco Digital Asset Group (FDAG) and Huobi Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of Huobi Global.
2019-4-24 22:55 | |
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It’s been a long and winding road with many twists and turns for the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX and its 115,000 former users who are owed roughly $190 million.
2019-4-10 17:39 | |
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Do you live in the United States and you like to use XMR. to? We have very bad news for you. The privacy service XMR. to has recently announced on Reddit that it will no longer accept customers based in the United States.
2019-4-1 22:49 | |
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The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.
2019-3-28 18:00 | |
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Law firms Miller Thomson and Cox & Palmer have appointed a new committee to aid them in representing close to 115,000 customers of the now defunct Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX. This according to a court notice published March 19, 2019.
2019-3-22 12:00 | |
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The problems amongst the QuadrigaCX platform date back over a year, but their most recent development is amongst the creditors. Law firms Miller Thompson and Cox & Palmer have created a commit on behalf of the 115,000 former customers of the platform, according to a court notice on March 19th. On a post on Wednesday, […]
2019-3-21 18:50 | |
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The late CEO of QuadrigaCX used his own cash to make exchange customers whole during a legal dispute with a bank, his widow said.
2019-3-14 22:49 | |
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QuadrigaCX, the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange embroiled in an ongoing mystery about the disappearance of $134 million in customers’ funds, has been granted an extension on its 30-day order for creditor protection.
2019-3-6 13:34 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has designated legal counsel for customers of Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX
2019-2-21 02:26 | |
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Justice Wood has appointed legal counsel to represent some 115,000 creditors in incipient legal proceedings against seemingly insolvent cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, documents published today, February 19, 2019, from the Halifax, Nova Scotia court reveal.
2019-2-20 00:52 | |
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Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the late QuadrigaCX exchange CEO, appears to be liquidating and shuffling some estate assets. When QuadrigaCX founder and CEO Gerald Cotten passed away suddenly in December of 2018 in India, he was allegedly the only person with the knowledge of the exchange’s cold storage keys.
2019-2-15 22:06 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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A Canadian judge will appoint a legal team to represent QuadrigaCX's customers in the coming week.
2019-2-15 23:20 | |
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If you run a small business and want to attract more customers by offering bitcoin payments, you may be wondering where to start. Keep in mind that it’s definitely not a way of avoiding taxes. Bitcoin is simply another legal way to receive payment for goods and services.
2019-2-8 01:00 | |
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A company with legal problems; a mysterious death; missing customer funds. The QuadrigaCX story could have come straight from the pen of a hack Hollywood writer. Well now, the internet’s faithful crypto-investigators, claim to have found evidence of transactions initiated from the supposedly ‘lost’ cold wallets.
2019-2-4 20:00 | |
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Canadian Exchange QuadrigaCX is seeking legal protection after they revealed that $250 million of customers’ funds are in a cold wallet only accessible by their late CEO, a February 1, 2019 report says.
2019-2-4 14:00 | |
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QuadrigaCX, a cryptocurrency exchange, has been in hot water for months with their own customers, considering that no one has been able to withdraw their crypto assets for months now. There has been plenty of rumors surrounding the cause, but the company did not exactly put themselves in a good position today when they notified […]
2019-1-29 17:26 | |
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Finnish tax authorities have handed over information on 2,700 bitcoin traders to its Danish counterpart, Skattestyrelsen (SKAT). According to a press release, the traders used an undisclosed Finnish exchange to collectively purchase and sell some $15.
2018-12-14 03:12 | |
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A new development has arisen in the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) efforts to regulate ICOs: a District Judge has turned back a request for an injunction.
2018-11-30 23:08 | |
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A class-action lawsuit for over $5 million has been filed in northern California against Chinese mining giant Bitmain. The company is being accused of utilizing customers’ newly purchased machines to mine cryptocurrency at full power for its own benefit while customers were configuring their equipment.
2018-11-27 21:38 | |
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
2018-11-15 22:14 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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The judge presiding over a class action lawsuit against Coinbase over allegations of insider trading has approved Coinbase’s motion to dismiss the suit. In March of 2018, Jeffrey Berk filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California on behalf of himself and other investors against Coinbase.
2018-10-26 22:26 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Quadrigacx has blamed an ongoing legal dispute over $21. 6 million worth of funds that were frozen by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in January for delays experienced by some of its customers when requesting fiat currency withdrawals.
2018-10-10 17:10 | |
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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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Financial savings have long been the foundation of wealth and asset building. However, we are now in a time when the growing obsolescence of financial institutions has forced certain technologies out of date, created high fees, revealed structural inefficiencies and, ultimately, meant that some standard investment solutions now fail to place consumer needs first.
2018-10-6 16:37 | |
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ZebPay officially announced that it was forced to stop activity due to legal and regulatory obstacles. ‘Curb on Bank Accounts … Crippled Our Ability’” Indian exchange Zebpay’s announcement came via Medium less than a month after they informed customers they will halt fiat transactions.
2018-9-29 18:00 | |
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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in India, Zebpay have announced that they have locked down all of their exchange services as a result of a banking freeze established by India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
2018-9-28 13:00 | |
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Revolut, the U.K.-based digital banking giant, is the latest company to join the Pyth Network as a data publisher. The partnership between the Financial Conduct Authority regulated neobank and Pyth Network (PYTH) means Revolut will now contribute its price data…
Revolut X, a stand-alone crypto exchange launched by neobank Revolut, is now available for customers across 30 new European countries. London-based fintech giant Revolut is expanding its standalone crypto exchange Revolut X across dozens of new countries in the European…
Revolut says it blocked nearly $13.5 million in potential crypto fraud in the last three months. Fintech giant Revolut has prevented $13.5 million in potentially fraudulent cryptocurrency transfers between June and September 2024, the company revealed in a press release…
Директор криптовалютного подразделения корпорации Visa заявил, что в ближайшие пару лет спрос на стейблкоины, привязанные к недолларовым валютах, значительно увеличится.
Revolut has teamed up with Ledger to integrate its app into Ledger Live, allowing crypto purchases through the Ledger app for users in select European countries. Revolut and Ledger have announced a new integration that allows its users in select…
Revolut's UK banking license could enhance its market position, attract more users, and potentially influence global regulatory trends. The post Fintech giant Revolut authorized to become a UK Bank appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Revolut and MetaMask team up to enable direct crypto purchases with Revolut Ramp, simplifying the process for users in the UK and EEA.