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“# US lawmakers urge CFTC and SEC to form joint working group on digital assets ” Two members of the United States House of Representatives have petitioned the heads of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to work with participants in the crypto space for transparency and regulatory clarity. In a…
“# BREAKING: BitMEX announces $100M settlement with FinCEN, CFTC ” Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX has agreed to pay up to $100 million to resolve a case from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. In an announcement today, BitMEX said it had reached a settlement with the two government…
“# SEC has no authority over crypto, CFTC commissioner argues ” Amid the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s expanding the scope of oversight of the cryptocurrency industry, a commissioner with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued that crypto regulation doesn’t fall under the SEC’s jurisdiction. CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz took to Twitter on Wednesday…
“# Former CFTC chair explains why regulators should approve a Bitcoin ETF ” Timothy Massad, who served as Chair of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission between 2014 and 2017, has laid out the reasons why he thinks regulators should approve a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. In an opinion piece published on Bloomberg Wednesday, Massad…
“# ICO issuer charged with fraud by SEC for selling unregistered security ” The United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, has charged a cryptocurrency issuer for “making materially false and misleading statements” in connection with an unregistered security offering conducted between August 2017 and January 2018, offering further evidence that regulators were still…
“# With US regulators handing out $2.5B in fines since 2014, crypto is not the ‘wild west’ of finance ” According to a report from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, unregistered securities offerings represent more than half of all crypto fines handed out by U.S. regulators. In Elliptic’s June 21 Sanctions Compliance in Cryptocurrencies report, the…
“# Chris Giancarlo: U.S. risks becoming ‘backwater’ without central bank digital currency ” One of the few high-profile public officials to have served under both the Obama and Trump administrations, Chris Giancarlo is a former Wall Street executive-turn-regulator who is widely-respected by nearly all parties on Capitol Hill. As the former Chairman of the Commodities…
“# After googling it, CFTC boss says DeFi is a ‘bad idea’ and probably illegal ” Commissioner Dan M. Berkovitz of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) believes DeFi derivatives platforms may contravene the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). Speaking as part of a June 8 keynote address dubbed “Climate Change and Decentralized Finance: New Challenges…
“# SEC loses a battle to win the war? Ripple dissociates from pumping XRP ” When the United States Securities and Exchange Commission filed legal action against Ripple Labs and its top-two executives in December, alleging that its XRP coin was in fact a security and that the firm had raised over $1.38 billion through…
“# Following $6.5 million CFTC fine, Coinbase delays direct stock listing ” After settling charges of improper reporting of exchange volume and “self-trading” with the CFTC yesterday, reports have emerged that cryptocurrency exchange giant Coinbase is set to push back its stock listing to next month. The company had previously been expected to go public…