2024-4-29 16:30 |
Former Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao now faces the genuine possibility that he'll spend three years in federal prison in the U.S. – well above the possible 18 months laid out in his plea agreement. origin »
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According to court documents, a New York couple accused of laundering $4. 5 billion worth of cryptocurrencies related to the hacking of the Bitfinex exchange in 2016 has entered into a plea agreement with the federal prosecutor’s office.
2023-7-22 23:05 | |
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Coinspeaker Voyager $1B Deal with Binance. US Closer to Actualization Following Fed Agreement Binance. US is reportedly closer to acquiring Voyager assets after the UCC secured a deal with the US federal government.
2023-4-20 15:22 | |
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Voyager Digital’s acquisition by Binance. US is set to go ahead following an agreement with the U. S. federal government. The crypto lender’s Unsecured Creditors Committee stated on Twitter tThe post Binance.
2023-4-20 13:45 | |
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The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) facilitates a purchase and assumption agreement between SVB and First Citizens Bank. The deal will enable the assets, loans, and deposits of SVB to be taken over by First Citizens Bank. Silicon Valley…
2023-3-27 14:45 | |
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation says the 17 former branches of Silicon Valley Bank will re-open as First Citizens Bank & Trust Company on Monday, March 27.
2023-3-27 09:20 | |
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An agreement has been reached between Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers and federal prosecutors regarding his usage of messaging applications. As stated in a court document dated Feb. 6, the agreement prohibits Sam Bankman-Fried from using any transient or encrypted messaging application,…
2023-2-7 10:22 | |
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The agreement comes as a result of federal prosecutors looking to ban SBF from contacting current or former FTX and Alameda employees while on house arrest.
2023-2-7 03:55 | |
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While yesterday’s Biden-McCarthy meeting did not result in an agreement on the debt ceiling in the U. S. , this could have direct implications for the entire financial market and Bitcoin. And the implications for the Federal Reserve’s efforts to fight inflation are nothing short of massive.
2023-2-2 12:30 | |
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Miami-Dade, one of the U.S. most populous counties and home to the NBA team Miami Heat, has successfully annulled its partnership with FTX following the company’s collapse in November. According to a report by the Miami Herald, a federal judge ruled that the naming rights agreement between both parties on the FTX Arena be terminated […]
2023-1-15 11:56 | |
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A federal bankruptcy court has canceled the name rights agreement between FTX and Miami-Dade County. The action permits the mark of the defunct bitcoin exchange to be removed from the arena where the National Basketball Association (NBA) plays. FTX was…
2023-1-12 13:09 | |
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FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman Fried (SBF) appeared before U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in a Federal Court in New York. The former executive pleaded not guilty to eight charges, including those related to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud, allegedly as part of an agreement with U.S. law enforcement agencies. Related […]
2023-1-4 23:04 | |
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In September 2020, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) filed an application in Federal Court seeking an order to compel Coinsquare to provide information pertaining to...
2021-3-24 05:28 | |
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U.N. and Federal Reserve experts think CBDCs can compete with commercial banks, New York and France enter a regulatory agreement while Europol has Wasabi Wallet concerns.
2020-6-6 19:34 | |
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Today, in a surprise move, the US Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus on the market and economy. The officials were in unanimous agreement for an emergency cut to a range of 1% to 1.
2020-3-4 00:01 | |
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In spite of news that the economy appears stable, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Fed) had continued injecting liquidity into the market. The most recent action involved an almost $58 billion repurchase (repo) agreement.
2019-12-23 21:20 | |
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The New York Fed added $104. 293 billion in a single day to financial markets on Thursday. The Federal Reserve had to loan banks the equivalent of 12,700,000 bitcoin last night to stabilize the financial system.
2019-11-15 16:58 | |
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Craig Steven Wright, the man who’s claimed to be Bitcoin’s anonymous creator countless times, is down to his last hope in the epic $10 billion Dave Kleiman lawsuit: settlement. According to a Florida Federal Court document, which was submitted yesterday, Wright and the Kleiman estate have requested an extension on all deadlines in a bid to begin settlement talks.
2019-9-18 13:17 | |
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slapped a $5 billion fine on Facebook in wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and its other data leaks. In an agreement filed today, the FTC has also ordered the social network to make privacy-related changes to avoid such mishaps in the future.
2019-7-24 17:08 | |
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In the Bitcoin industry’s Sisyphean struggle to secure a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF), the boulder is rolling back down the hill. The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) posted a notice today, May 20, 2019, that it is delaying its decision on the VanEck and SolidX Bitcoin ETF proposal.
2019-5-21 00:19 | |
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As per an all-new announcement issued by US-based health-IT provider, HMS Technologies Inc. (HMS), the government partnered entity has just entered into an agreement with blockchain startup ‘Solve. Care’.
2019-4-23 17:58 | |
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By CCN: Elon Musk and the SEC are talking, demonstrating progress in a regulatory battle that has been drawn out for months. While the Tesla CEO and the securities regulator have yet to reach an agreement regarding a contempt of court dispute, they could be close.
2019-4-20 03:53 | |
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The Winklevoss twins reached a settlement with Charlie Shrem on April 16, 2019, declaring that their case against him has been dismissed with prejudice and will not be reopened.
2019-4-18 23:23 | |
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To the surprise of almost no one, Elon Musk walked out of a federal courthouse Thursday still wearing the hat of CEO of Tesla. He was there for a hearing that resulted from the US Securities and Exchange Commission charging in February that Musk had violated an agreement it reached with him in October over his tweeting.
2019-4-5 00:12 | |
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Private bank, Federal Bank Ltd. in India, has partnered with Ripple to facilitate international payments. In an announcement to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Federal Bank confirmed its partnership with blockchain technology firm Ripple.
2019-3-29 16:49 | |
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Throughout March, despite concerns regarding the decline in household net worth, increasing federal debt, and the downside earnings revisions of major U. S. conglomerates, analysts have forecasted an optimistic short-term movement for the Dow Jones due to trade deal optimism.
2019-3-9 16:50 | |
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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 the latter half of 2018, few developments have occupied crypto investors’ headspaces like the industry’s indefatigable pursuit of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-9 20:03 | |
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Ever since the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a stern warning about initial coin offerings (ICOs) in February 2018, cryptocurrency projects have had to consider different options for distributing their tokens — and funding their development.
2018-10-20 19:31 | |
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The crypto industry has scored another first, as a junior U. S. Senator from Montana, Steve Daines, has lobbied against the planned closure of a coal-fired power plant in Rosebud County, arguing that its closure could harm the growing cryptocurrency mining industry in the state.
2018-8-28 19:11 | |
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The Australian government has chosen IBM as its central technology partner for the next five years in a deal worth $740 million dollars. The agreement will cover technology services provided to government departments, including services which will use IBM’s automation and blockchain technologies.
2018-7-9 03:00 | |
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Daniel Schatt, a Cred co-founder and former CEO, Joseph Podulka, former CFO, and James Alexander, the former chief capital officer, were indicted by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California.
There was a lot of news last week, but maybe the biggest news came Wednesday when the U. S. Department of Justice arrested two co-founders of Samourai Wallet, a bitcoin wallet that offered mixing services.
Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao will learn how much time, if any, he'll spend in prison Tuesday.
More than 160 of Changpeng “CZ” Zhao’s loved ones, friends and colleagues have written to a Washington judge ahead of the Binance founder and former CEO’s sentencing tomorrow, asking for leniency and painting a picture of Zhao as a devoted father and friend, and a “geeky” tech nerd who shuns luxury purchases despite his immense personal wealth.
The U.S. Department of Justice rebuffed Roman Storm's motion to dismiss criminal charges against him late Friday.
Federal prosecutors charges Samurai Wallet founders Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill with conspiracy to commit money laundering on Wednesday, as the U.S. government continues its approach to prosecuting crypto mixing tools that may be used by illicit actors and foreign governments to hide fund transfers.