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The national regulator urges the industry players to comply with the local legislation.
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The ACCC is using a countermeasures service from the U.K.-based Netcraft, which has been providing a similar service to the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre.
2022-7-22 09:04 | |
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Spain’s financial regulator, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), has issued a warning notice against 12 companies that include cryptocurrency exchanges Bybit and Huobi. According to the notice, the warning has been given because these institutions are not registered in the corresponding registry of this Commission, and as such, they are not authorized to provide […] The post Spain’s Watchdog Issues a Notice Against Crypto Exchanges Bybit and Huobi for Unauthorized Operation first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-8-17 17:36 | |
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Singapore-based DBS Bank’s brokerage arm has received “in principal” approval to begin offering crypto services to asset managers and companies. DBS Bank Launches Crypto Services According to a Coindesk report published today, major Singaporean bank DBS Bank’s brokerage arm – DBS Vickers – has finally obtained the go-ahead from the national financial regulator to offerRead More
2021-8-13 06:00 | |
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The new Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Michael Hsu, has requested a review of the cryptocurrency standards established by the top U. S. banking regulator. He is also urged to “reassess any conditional national trust charters and halt the approval of any additional charters to nonbank entities” during the review.
2021-5-20 18:03 | |
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Paxos is the latest company to obtain preliminary conditional approval from the U. S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a de novo National Trust Bank. This is the third such charter issued by the OCC, the top banking regulator, to a crypto native company.
2021-4-24 18:00 | |
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The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) revealed plans to introduce policies to regulate the cryptocurrency industry. DFSA’s Crypto Regulation in the Works According to local news media The National on Tuesday (Jan.
2021-1-20 20:00 | |
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The top U. S. banking regulator is concerned that the Biden administration may roll back some cryptocurrency regulations aimed at protecting consumers. This includes allowing national banks to custody crypto assets put in place during the Trump administration.
2020-12-27 22:30 | |
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the US's national bank regulator, has proposed a rule that would forbid banks from providing their services to legal industries, including cryptocurrency companies.
2020-11-22 20:00 | |
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If its application is approved, Anchorage would be the first crypto company to get a national bank charter.
2020-11-17 09:16 | |
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If granted, the charter would replace the blockchain-based lender's hodgepodge of state licenses with a single nationwide regulator.
2020-11-7 22:19 | |
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The first one was Kraken, and now another crypto bank is here. The Wyoming State Banking Board granted Avanti Bank & Trust a bank charter with 8-0 votes that give it the same powers as national banks.
2020-10-30 19:18 | |
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National Stock Exchange of Australia is now in talks with Australia's securities regulator to finalize access for its DLT system to ASX Clear, it said.
2020-10-20 12:20 | |
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued new guidance regarding stablecoins on Monday. “National banks and federal savings associations currently engage in stablecoin-related activities involving billions of dollars each day,” said Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian P.
2020-9-23 17:06 | |
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The U. S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Monday published a letter clarifying that national banks and federal savings associations can now hold reserves for stablecoin issuers in the country.
2020-9-23 17:00 | |
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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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As we reported yesterday, a leading banking regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), has officially declared in a letter that national banks can from now provide crypto custody services.
2020-7-23 15:28 | |
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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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U.S. regulators have cleared the way for national banks to provide cryptocurrency custody services on behalf of customers.
2020-7-22 20:00 | |
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A federal banking regulator is seeking public input on how cryptocurrencies interact with the national banking system and financial institutions.
2020-6-6 23:56 | |
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Brazil’s national competition regulator is about to decide the fate of its investigation on whether some of the largest banks in the country wrongly locked local crypto brokers out of financial services.
2020-5-21 17:51 | |
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In this roundup, we cover several crypto-related actions by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York regulator’s crypto job posting. We also cover new Chinese laws, South Korea’s tax clarification, India’s blockchain education, the IMF working with the Philippines’ central bank, as well as crypto regulatory developments in Turkey and Qatar.
2020-1-7 17:00 | |
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South Korea’s national policy committee has passed an amendment establishing a legal framework for cryptocurrencies. It requires crypto exchanges and service providers to register with the country’s financial regulator and comply with the recommendations set by the Financial Action Task Force.
2019-11-27 09:20 | |
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Speaking at the Finopolis forum of innovative financial technologies, Elvira Nabiullina, Russian economist and head of the Central Bank of the country said the regulator doesn’t see a need to issue a national cryptocurrency, reported Russian News Agency, Tass.
2019-10-11 22:42 | |
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Bahrein-based Rain became the first cryptocurrency exchange in the Middle East granted by the national regulator to work with cryptocurrencies.
2019-7-31 16:12 | |
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Iceland’s financial watchdog, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) on June 14, 2019, approved Reykjavik-based fintech startup Monerium as the country’s first e-money institution. Iceland Backs Digitization of Money Iceland’s national currency, the Icelandic krona (ISK), is set to become Europe’s first blockchain-powered digitally traded currency after the nation’s sole financial regulator gave the green lightRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-18 23:00 | |
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Max Keiser has delivered a swift putdown of a US regulator head after he warned national TV cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are prone to manipulation. SEC Rejects Treating BTC Like Stocks Speaking to CNBC, Jay Clayton, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said that fiat markets had controls over malpractice which decentralized alternatives lack.
2019-6-7 11:00 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has posted a new proposal from Crescent Crypto Index Services, a subsidiary of Crescent Asset Management, for the launch of a crypto-backed exchange-traded fund (ETF).
2019-5-11 19:39 | |
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China's National Development and Reform Commission is looking for public comments concerning a list of industries it wants to encourage, restrict, or eliminate. Among the activities the regulator wishes to phase out is the mining of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin.
2019-4-10 17:49 | |
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The Spanish National Securities Market Commission has affirmed that it has not authorized any entity to operate an ICO so far
2019-3-29 13:12 | |
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The head of the Finance Committee of France’s National Assembly proposed to ban anonymity-focused cryptocurrencies like Monero and Zcash
2019-3-8 03:10 | |
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The U. K. ’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published two reports on consumer attitudes and awareness to crypto assets in the country. The research includes qualitative interviews and a national survey of 2,132 British consumers.
2019-3-7 20:30 | |
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Cypriot securities regulators are calling for the transposition of the European Union’s Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive into national law
2019-2-20 21:57 | |
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23 unauthorized forex and cryptocurrency entities have been added to the warning list of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission
2019-1-14 16:23 | |
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South Korea Submits Cryptocurrency-Related Bills To The National Assembly To Regulate The Market According to data provided to news. Bitcoin. com by South Korea’s top financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC).
2019-1-1 23:42 | |
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South Korea’s top financial regulator has exclusively shared with news. Bitcoin. com information about six cryptocurrency-related bills that have been submitted to the National Assembly. The most recent bill seeks to protect the rights of crypto owners and to ensure the safety and reliability of crypto transactions.
2018-12-31 07:58 | |
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The tax regulator seeks to tighten its grip during the country’s 2019 tax reformation restructuring.
2018-12-5 22:05 | |
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The U. S. authorities appear to have greatly increased their focus on initial coin offerings (ICOs). In addition to the big federal bodies that are going after them on a national level, projects are also being targeted by regulators in states such as Colorado, where another another four were put on notice on Tuesday.
2018-11-22 17:25 | |
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Italy’s financial regulator, the National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (CONSOB), has warned against three cryptocurrency companies engaged in schemes to promote cryptocurrency mining and investments.
2018-11-22 06:10 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to settle charges with two startups that sold tokens through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in 2017. The companies were charged by the SEC for running their ICOs after the regulator clearly defined such offerings as unlicensed securities in its DAO Report of Investigation.
2018-11-17 00:07 | |
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In an apparent first, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of EtherDelta, Zachary Coburn, with running an “unregistered national securities exchange,” according to a press release from the regulator.
2018-11-9 20:32 | |
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The Taiwanese Financial Supervisory Commission is drafting a set of national standards for initial coin offerings. The regulator reportedly aims to make tokens as easy to invest and as liquid as stocks.
2018-10-28 06:30 | |
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This week, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released draft regulations for blockchain firms that operate in the country of 1. 4 billion people, and it’s inviting public feedback until Nov.
2018-10-27 07:10 | |
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After killing all legitimate cryptocurrency businesses in the country, Chinese authorities are now turning their attention to other blockchain service providers. The country’s apex internet regulator, Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), released a draft policy on Friday that will require all companies to collect their users’ real names and national identification card numbers before offering them any blockchain related service.
2018-10-22 13:18 | |
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The Cyberspace Administration of China is tightening its stance against anonymity offered under the garb of blockchain technology. The central internet regulator, notorious for its role in building the so-called “The Great Firewall of China,” has drafted new regulations that would require local blockchain companies to register users with their real names and national identification.
2018-10-22 12:10 | |
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The top financial regulator of South Korea doesn’t believe that cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICOs) have positive connotations. During the parliamentary audit sessions of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) at the National Assembly on Oct.
2018-10-18 16:59 | |
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UK Telecom Regulator Gets $700,000 GBP Grant To Study Blockchain The Regulators’ Pioneer Fund has recently announced that it would award Ofcom, a national telecommunications regulatory authority, with $700,000 GBP(about $915,000 USD) to study the blockchain technology in order to improve the UK telephone number management. Ofcom has released an official document in which it […]
2018-10-8 23:05 | |
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Knowledge Academy Survey Concludes Most Americans Are Unsure What ‘Bitcoin' Actually Means Knowledge Academy Survey Concludes Most Americans Are Unsure What ‘Bitcoin' Actually Means French Stock Market Regulator AMF Blacklists Dozens of Cryptocurrency Sites French Stock Market Regulator AMF Blacklists Dozens of Cryptocurrency Sites National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to Entertain a State-Backed Blockchain Cryptocurrency […]
2018-9-29 21:15 | |
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Kenya’s central bank has penalized five major commercial banks for handling stolen state funds in the corruption scandal involving the country’s National Youth Service and Ministry of Devolution and Planning.
2018-9-19 15:30 | |
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Maerki Baumann — a private bank based in Zurich, Switzerland — has announced it will manage its clients’ cryptocurrency assets. This makes it the second Swiss bank to make such an announcement following Hypothekarbank Lenzburg (Hypi), which stated in June that it would open business accounts for cryptocurrency companies.
2018-8-7 23:23 | |
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An investigation has revealed that ezBtc's founder used customer funds for gambling, leading to significant losses.
A recent survey by KPMG in Canada and the Canadian Association of Alternative Assets and Strategies (CAASA) shows a notable increase in the adoption of cryptoasset products and services by financial organizations and institutional investors in Canada.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is embroiled in a legal battle in Canada as it faces a class-action lawsuit for allegedly breaching local securities laws. The lawsuit, filed in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, accuses Binance of selling crypto derivative products to retail investors without proper registration, contravening the Ontario Securities Act (OSA) and federal law. The […]
British Columbia authorities are intensifying their efforts to hold individuals accountable for their involvement in the collapse of QuadrigaCX, a cryptocurrency firm that left thousands facing substantial losses.
Canada, quicker to adopt ETFs than the U.S., may offer a signal to where the U.S. goes next.
Photonic’s founder and Chief Quantum Officer says the company can bring a quantum computer to market within the next five years.
According to customer emails, the changes will go into effect starting Nov. 30.