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Three Binance compliance officers give a fiery response to allegations of illicit activity, sanctions evasion and darknet links.
2022-8-2 03:42 | |
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The United States Treasury Department suspects that crypto exchange Kraken has violated the United States sanctions by allowing users from sanctioned regions to trade digital tokens and opened a federal investigation to reveal the truth, The New York Times reported.
2022-7-29 21:13 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC/USD) is up 3.2% in the past 24 hours to currently trade around $21,671 and ease off lows seen on Tuesday when a number of negative news reports impacted sentiment. After hitting intraday lows of $20,780 on Tuesday amid reports of SEC investigations against crypto exchange Coinbase, and a Treasury Department probe on Kraken, […] The post Analyst: Bitcoin is headed for resistance amid FOMC bounce appeared first on Invezz.
2022-7-27 21:19 | |
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Coinbase released the first part of its Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC)-featured movie yesterday night. This comes a few days after the SEC launched investigations into the crypto exchange for allegedly issuing digital assets that should have been listed as securities.
2022-7-27 14:06 | |
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Coinbase clarified that the crypto exchange was not selling its users’ data and highlighted that it only provides information for investigations of financial crimes.
2022-7-1 11:25 | |
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Celsius Network is in communication with United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
2022-6-17 15:53 | |
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Today, Congress of the United States sent an official inquiry letter to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) chair Gary Gensler. The post The U.S. Congress inquires the SEC on crypto-related investigations appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-3-18 23:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency operator Circle receives a summons from the U. S Security and Exchange (SEC) concerning investigations. According to filings from the company, it agreed to cooperate with the regulators regarding the investigations fully.
2021-10-6 01:00 | |
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Europol Dark Web Specialist joins crypto exchange Binance, to head up internal and external investigations, and to protect user funds. The post Europol Dark Web Specialist Joins Binance appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-9-18 17:00 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the court to order Ripple to submit its employees' Slack communication app history. SEC Requests Access To Over 1 Million Messages SEC's attorney Jorge Tenreiro filed a motion seeking access to over 1 million messages sent by Ripple's employees.
2021-8-10 18:21 | |
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Some of those caught up in an alleged $3.6 billion crypto Ponzi scheme are refusing to aid police investigations as they still expect to triple their investments.
2021-6-10 07:40 | |
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A new twist to the Ripple vs. SEC case has come to the fore. SEC’s New Filing Fatal To Its Claims In response to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s lawsuit against blockchain firm Ripple Labs, co-defendants Brad Garlinghouse and Chairman Chris Larsen have requested that the regulatory agency carry out investigations on crypto exchanges […] The post Ripple Requests Assistance From Offshore Bitcoin Exchanges In Its Ongoing Lawsuit first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2021-6-3 17:37 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance is facing investigations from the U.S. government
2021-5-14 19:55 | |
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The crypto portfolio tracker Blockfolio, owned by the exchange FTX, got its messaging system compromised, as racist notifications started to appear. Blockfolio’s users received the offensive messages with a warning that they’re about to lose all funds.
2021-2-11 06:30 | |
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GPay Limited, which traded as XtraderFX (formerly CryptoPoint) has been shut down by UK authorities following investigations into its practices. The firm has been on the radar of the Financial Conduct Authority for over two years.
2020-7-4 23:00 | |
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Nearly two years ago, the Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck suffered from a major hack. During that incident, millions of dollars worth of NEM currency were taken by criminals. Despite several investigations, not all of that money was retrieved.
2020-3-15 06:00 | |
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According to a press release issued on March 10, 2020, South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange platform Bithumb has joined forces with blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis firm to embrace the latter’s investigations solution – Chainalysis Reactor.
2020-3-12 18:00 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now reaching out to QuadrigaCX victims via email in what appears to be confirmation that the federal agency has started carrying out investigations to try and establish what could have led to the collapse of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange platform.
2020-1-16 19:53 | |
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The publication of crypto exchange Kraken’s 2019 Transparency Report has provoked discussion about the scale of government surveillance. According to the report, Kraken received 710 requests last year (or two per day), impacting approximately 1,222 accounts.
2020-1-8 04:30 | |
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The law firm that represents the users of the collapsed QuadrigaCX crypto exchange have asked the investigating authorities to confirm the death of former CEO by exhuming and conducting forensic investigations of his body, CoinDesk reports.
2019-12-14 22:44 | |
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According to a press release by the U. S Securities and Exchange Commission, Robert A. Cohen, Chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Cyber Unit, has resigned from the SEC and will be leaving the organization in August.
2019-7-30 20:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter, the CFTC is looking into whether BitMEX broke the rules by allowing American customers to trade on the platform, which is not registered with the agency.
2019-7-19 15:06 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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Cryptopia, a cryptocurrency exchange with headquarters in New Zealand, has suspended trading services and released a press statement on May 15 stating that it is in liquidation. The latest development comes less than six months after the exchange lost millions through hacking.
2019-5-15 17:59 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Since May 1, 2019, bitcoin’s price has been rising, reaching a top of over $6,000. As the whole cryptocurrency industry was enjoying the rise, an unexpected hack put a stop to the rise of bitcoin.
2019-5-10 18:48 | |
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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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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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Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-4-13 18:54 | |
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A site called TheTie released a report today that estimates over 86% of all reported Bitcoin exchange volume is suspicious, while 75% of exchanges report extremely dubious volumes. The research uses a different formula than other reports have: it values each website’s visitors and compares that value to the reported figures.
2019-3-19 23:53 | |
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On Feb. 20, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase gave the public an inside look at how the company deals with contentious forks. Coinbase engineer Breck Stodghill specifically discussed how the trading platform dealt with the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) split on November 15, 2018.
2019-2-22 18:42 | |
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New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia disclosed that local police have allowed employees to return to the firm’s office following its suspension of operations mid last month after a multi-million dollar security breach.
2019-2-15 18:53 | |
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Exchange and wallet providers will collect and store user data to ease the process of possible investigations.
2019-1-22 20:49 | |
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The problem of transaction volume fraud is a serious one among cryptocurrency exchanges. Many exchanges have been accused in the past of inflating the volume of their exchanges to attract customers and make a higher profit.
2019-1-20 20:53 | |
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Beginning the 13th of January, users of the New Zealand based cryptocurrency exchange of Cryptopia started experiencing technical difficulties with their accounts. The exchange went on to announce via twitter that they were carrying out an unscheduled maintenance to sort out the issue.
2019-1-15 13:08 | |
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According to Chinese state media, the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges have carried out investigations into 30 percent of companies listed on their exchanges that are performing operations pertaining to distributed ledger technology (DLT).
2018-12-27 18:15 | |
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During a conversation at the Bitcoin Podcast, WhatBitcoinDid, Peter McCormack talked about Bitcoin (BTC) and XRP and what they mean for people. He mentioend that Ripple created Ripplecoin and kept some coins for themselves and pumped the price with lies.
2018-12-10 22:18 | |
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Steven Peikin, co-director of the enforcement division of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recently described international cooperation as playing a critical role in facilitating investigations in the initial coin offering (ICO) sector.
2018-12-7 12:10 | |
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The recent quarterly filings from Riot Blockchain show that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigations into the company are “still ongoing. ” The SEC issued a subpoena to the company on April 9 calling for a formal investigation.
2018-11-22 18:59 | |
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It seems US authorities aren’t yet done with controversial cryptocurrency Tether. The ‘USD-backed’ stablecoin is now being probed by the country’s Justice Department, according to a Bloomberg report.
2018-11-20 15:00 | |
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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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The Annual Report on the Division of Law Enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed its plans of placing strict rules against ICO scams. With a total amount of $794 million investor funds returned this year alone, the SEC has made it clear that spearheading investigations to help reduce fraudulent ICOs to […] The post SEC Draws Battle Line Against ICO Scams in it’s Yearly Annual Report appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-11-3 20:46 | |
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A club DJ in Bangkok is currently being investigated for allegedly murdering several kittens in exchange for Bitcoins. According to the report from a Bangkok media outlet, the female DJ has previously been accused of animal murder on the dark web.
2018-10-22 18:32 | |
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The hack of Japan-licensed cryptocurrency exchange Zaif took the crypto community by surprise last week. It’s recently emerged that the perpetrators of the crime are trading the stolen wealth on Binance and other exchanges.
2018-9-28 09:00 | |
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North Korean hacking outfit “Lazarus” is now targeting cryptocurrency exchanges. Information security firm Kaspersky Labs has discovered it is exploring new attack vectors and trojanizing cryptocurrency software.
2018-8-23 16:05 | |
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A 21-year-old Bitcoin dealer from California has been indicted on several counts of crime which include money laundering and operating an unregistered money transmitting business. Jacob Burrell Campos was ordered held without bail on August 17 after investigations by the US Department of Justice reportedly unearthed a thriving underground Bitcoin exchange business that he operated. […]
2018-8-22 17:00 | |
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A former Tesla employee today filed a formal complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission alleging the automaker failed to disclose to shareholders a drug trafficking operation run out of its Nevada Gigafactory.
2018-8-17 04:13 | |
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An investor in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) as well as employees in no less than three banks have been implicated in the $24 million Bitcoin scam involving actor Jiratpisit “Boom” Jaravijit.
2018-8-17 02:55 | |
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SEC Expands Inquiry About Riot Blockchain According to Reports It looks like the investigations about Riot Blockchain, the biotech company turned into crypto miner, are continuing. The latest news comes from a 10-Q quarterly report filed by the U.
2018-8-16 00:15 | |
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Jon Montroll, the founder of two US based cryptocurrency trading platforms has pled guilty to allegations of security fraud that has seen Montroll deceive both investors and the authorities on multiple counts, allowing him to manipulate investigations into hacks that had taken place within his platforms.
2018-7-26 16:00 | |
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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.