
A former barrister is among those accused of shifting scam proceeds to crypto exchanges.
On February 17, according to Cointelegraph, the Bank of Italy and the securities regulator are in discussions with crypto service providers to ensure adequate safeguards are in place to deal with financial and cyber security risks. Fabio Panetta, the governor of the Bank of Italy, discussed key issues such as cyber security risks related to crypto assets, digital finance, and global and European regulation at the 31st AssiomForex Congress on February 15.
Mr. Waller, the Fed governor, said US regulators should deal directly with the risks of stablecoins, which would benefit from regulation and could expand the global role of the dollar by allowing banks and non-banks to issue them.
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is preparing to remove several stablecoins for customers in the European Economic Area as the European Union's Crypto Asset Market Supervisory Authority comes into full effect. The exchange announced that it will gradually remove margin trading restrictions on USDT, PYUSD, EURT, TUSD and UST for EEA users starting on February 13. Spot trading will stop on March 24, open orders will be cancelled, and assets will no longer be exchanged for cryptocurrencies or fiat cu...
On January 1st, according to the Financial Times, although half of the banned ads remain online after regulators asked to remove illegal cryptocurrency ads, the UK's financial watchdog has yet to penalize any companies that fail to remove illegal cryptocurrency ads. According to data obtained through freedom of information requests, only 54% of the 1,702 alerts issued by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority between October 2023 and October 2024 resulted in illegal cryptocurrency ads, apps or web...
The French financial marekt regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has approved HEXARQ SAS to provide trading services and cryptocurrency custody.
The leaders of two major Wall Street regulators may both be friendly to the crypto community!
The Federal Reserve and other regulators are preparing sweeping changes to a series of proposed bank capital base rules in an attempt to overcome industry backlash, according to people familiar with the matter.
Recently, regulators have provided window guidance to some public offering institutions, restricting the allocation of 7-year government bonds to some companies' pure bond funds.
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has urged U.S. regulators to withdraw a proposed regulation that, if passed, would ban all event contracts on decentralized prediction markets. "We highlight the adverse impact this rule will have on prediction markets, including those used to predict elections," Gemini said in an Aug. 8 letter to Christopher Kirkpatrick, secretary of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.