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Financial stability was a key factor in the Bank of England's decision to hold stablecoin payment systems to the same regulatory standards as existing payment chains.
2020-1-28 00:05 | |
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The European Union’s 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive mandates that member states start regulating crypto assets by Jan. 10. Crypto exchanges and custodial wallet providers are now covered by the same regulatory requirements as banks and other financial institutions.
2020-1-11 14:45 | |
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With many countries clarifying regulatory stance on crypto, U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar introduced a draft bill for the same. The bill dubbed the 'Crypto-Currency Act of 2020' was introduced to shed lThe post 'CryptoCurrency Act of 2020' draft bill to provide regulatory clarity appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-20 15:00 | |
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Governments and central banking regulatory bodies continue to express concern about crypto being used for criminal purposes and terror. The terror campaigns of these very same governments continue unabated, however.
2019-7-2 10:30 | |
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Indian regulatory agencies have remained hostile towards the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The Indian government has, so far, failed to pursue a definitive stance on the same. Under these doubtful circumstances, another Indian cryptocurrency exchange, Koinex ceased operations following the suit of its predecessors.
2019-7-1 02:30 | |
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The uncertain regulatory climate with respect to the cryptocurrency ecosystem has led to detrimental consequences, with the geofencing of crypto-tokens by Poloniex being a recent example. The Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce, had previously expressed her fears regarding the delay of the same.
2019-6-4 21:30 | |
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The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), has released a report advising regulators on their approach to “crypto asset trading platforms” (CTPs). The report suggests that any crypto assets considered securities should follow the same regulatory principles as conventional securities but does not provide guidance on how to define crypto assets as securities in the first place.
2019-6-4 02:00 | |
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Nestled in the exhibition room at this year’s Consensus conference, the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a message for conference goers as they weaved in and out of booths representing various projects and startups in the space: “Be on the lookout for virtual currency fraud” and if you see it, let us know.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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As the crypto asset regulatory environment begins to firm up, crypto’s reputation as the ‘wild west’, is fading. New guidance by FinCEN makes it clear that in the US, virtual currencies are subject to the same AML requirements as fiat currency.
2019-5-15 02:00 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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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 regulatory and legal environment around internet-based services and applications has changed considerably over the last decade. When large-scale social networking platforms first became popular in the 2000s, the general attitude toward mass data collection was essentially “why not?”.
2019-5-11 04:03 | |
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By CCN. com: Thai startups raising funds by issuing digitized equities/stocks pay more taxes than an average business, according to Prinn Panitchpakdi. The governor of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) said initial coin offering (ICO) startups typically pay 7 percent in value-added (VAT) and a 20 percent in corporate tax.
2019-5-7 14:24 | |
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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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As part of its efforts to be regulatory compliant, Malta-based crypto exchange Binance has partnered with Blockchain startup Elliptic. According to a Coindesk report, the partnership will help Binance mitigate anti-money laundering (AML) concerns as it expands into new regions.
2019-5-3 19:27 | |
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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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Over the years, Bitcoin [BTC] and other cryptocurrencies have grabbed the attention of several institutions and regulatory bodies, mainly due to price swings and its underlying technology, the blockchain.
2019-4-27 23:30 | |
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Bitcoin fund Adamant Capital is convinced that the bottom of the bear market is in, and true to its name, the firm has laid out an unwavering case for this position with some persuasive hard data and fundamental analysis.
2019-4-20 22:59 | |
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By CCN. com: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has published its official document on a draft framework for fintech regulatory sandbox entitled “Draft Enabling Framework for Regulatory Sandbox. ” The document explicitly excluded crypto assets like bitcoin, demonstrating a lack of intent to regulate the local crypto market.
2019-4-19 14:13 | |
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To many on the outside, the blockchain industry and speculative crypto markets are one and the same, which often leads to misunderstandings. For the two entities that regulate the market, the U.
2019-4-18 22:13 | |
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Bitcoin’s strong bullish rally this week garnered the attention of financial institutions and governments alike, with many personalities tweeting about the same. Though adoption and acceptance of crypto-assets has increased manifold over the past year, regulatory clarity is still a distant reality.
2019-4-6 03:30 | |
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Pakistan yesterday inaugurated it's new Electronic Money Institutions regulatory framework. They had been working with the FATF intimately before that to make a robust framework. The FATF has been busy pushing the same regulations around the world, with Pakistan only being the latest example.
2019-4-3 01:40 | |
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In yet another sign that the Crypto Winter is beginning to thaw, fundraising in the industry is once again alive and well. Ground X Corp, which is the crypto arm of South Korea-based mobile giant Kakao, has raised a cool $90 million in a private coin offering and is targeting the same amount in yet another fundraising round expected to kick off this week, Bloomberg reports.
2019-3-12 20:08 | |
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With the uncertain regulatory environment, one doesn't expect Deloitte and crypto to be in the same sentence, just yet. However, according to Deloitte tax partner, Jim Calvin things have been changing recently.
2019-3-11 13:01 | |
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Coinbase’s Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, said in an interview last week that, in part, the exchange acquired controversial software firm Neutrino because its prior blockchain analysis providers were selling customer data.
2019-3-5 23:58 | |
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After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities.
2019-2-17 08:55 | |
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After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities.
2019-2-17 08:55 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-9 23:59 | |
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Announced at the end of January, Bitfury’s production-ready suite of Lightning Network products and services, Peach, appears to offer everything a developer, user or merchant could want from a Lightning implementation.
2019-2-12 23:59 | |
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Last week, two of the largest banking regulators within the European Union released reports calling for uniformity in the regulations of crypto assets and Initial Coin offerings (ICOs) across the continent.
2019-1-16 01:54 | |
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Last month, Huobi hired former State Street compliance chief Elaine Sun Ye Lin to serve as the global compliance director for the exchange. Sun served as State Street’s head of compliance for its Chinese branch.
2019-1-15 18:33 | |
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Wyoming is moving forward in order to regulate the cryptocurrency space and welcome new companies to the state. A new bill has been approved that would allow blockchain startups to operate within a regulatory sandbox.
2019-1-12 21:21 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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For investors whose first time investing in bitcoin was in 2018 or after late 2017, there is a high likelihood that they have incurred substantial losses for the fiscal year of 2018 if they haven’t sold yet.
2018-12-29 02:01 | |
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Originally called Basecoin, Basis had secured $133 million in funding to build an algorithmic stablecoin. Its founder, Nader Al-Naji, frequently described the project using code to maintain price stability for its token in the same way the U.
2018-12-18 22:09 | |
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After a stretcher, coin hodlers are finding reprieve. BTC/USD is up $350 in the last day but could edge higher now that Wall Street companies are forming a self regulatory group—ADAM with the aim of “cleaning” the crypto image.
2018-11-29 05:00 | |
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Honeysuckle White is giving family and friends gathering for Thanksgiving dinner this year the opportunity to talk turkey with a traceable blockchain code on more than 200,000 turkeys sold through 3,500 retailers around the U.
2018-11-23 00:52 | |
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
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South Korea is a very interesting region when it comes to cryptocurrencies. In most cases, there is nothing but positive news first and foremost. At the same time, local regulators are looking for ways to ensure the industry gains more legitimacy.
2018-11-14 08:05 | |
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The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a press release on Friday, November 9, 2018, stating that it had fined Arizona resident Joseph Kim for perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading scheme against his former employer and other investors.
2018-11-13 22:55 | |
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has claimed that it will include crypto funds under its regulatory umbrella. The SFC issued a statement on November 1, 2018, laying out its new approach for regulating virtual assets in the future.
2018-11-2 00:40 | |
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First hinting at his project in a reply to a BitPay tweet on August 2017, Nicolas Dorier boldly claimed that BTCPay would make one of crypto’s most popular payment processors obsolete.
2018-10-24 22:00 | |
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With the exception of the SEC’s FinHub announcement, it has been a quiet week for regulatory news — something we’ve been getting a lot of recently as U. S. officials clamp down on unscrupulous coin offerings and crypto companies.
2018-10-20 17:49 | |
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Glassdoor Economic Research is delivering much needed good news to the crypto community saying that despite extreme price volatility and regulatory uncertainty, the number of crypto jobs in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has risen by 300 percent since the same time last year.
2018-10-19 21:27 | |
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Like Walmart with pork from China and Maersk with shipping containers, DMG Blockchain Solutions (DMG) is hoping to be the first global supply chain company to manage cannabis products on the blockchain, initially in Canada — and then around the world.
2018-10-18 19:50 | |
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Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
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In today’s rapidly advancing world of blockchain innovation, it’s no secret that cryptocurrency wallets, exchanges and enterprise platforms are targets for nefarious activity.
2018-10-16 18:58 | |
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The US senator and potential presidential contender who suggested cryptocurrency “hurt” American families repeated concerns about the industry on October 11, saying it was “easy to steal. ” Warren Argues For Consumer Protection ‘Balance’ In a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Elizabeth Warren voiced fresh worry over the current regulatory climate in Washington, implying balanced rules should come into force.
2018-10-12 17:00 | |
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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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Binance continued to be the spot volume leader in the crypto sector during 2025, according to CryptoQuant’s annual report on exchanges. Binance Saw $7 Trillion In Spot Crypto Trading Volume In 2025 In a new thread on X, on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has shared insights from its 2025 Annual Exchange Leader Report. This report compares […]
Bybit, Bitget and OKX combined have 877,000 daily active users in the U.S., data from Sensor Tower shows. It's unclear if they are just checking prices, or trading in violation of the rules.
The decentralized exchange for futures and options trading plans to go live on Arbitrum on Jan. 8.
Companies registered in EU nations by year-end will be able to operate in those countries while they secure licenses under MiCA regulations that take effect at the end of the year.
The U.S. presidential election is an important short-term catalyst for Coinbase and the wider industry, and could lead to more regulatory clarity, analysts said.
Crypto exchange Bitget promised to compensate holders of its native Bitget Token (BGB) for losses suffered during a slump of as much as 52% on Monday.
Over 94% of creditors voted in favor of the plan, which promises to return 118% of their claims in cash.