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“# FTC sues Facebook in antitrust lawsuit as regulators mount offensive ” The United States Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Inc., where it alleges that the corporation has been engaging in anti-competitive practices ever since acquiring a dominant global position at the turn of the 2010s. According to public case files…
“# Hundreds of millions of consumers will use digital currencies soon: Circle CEO ” Speaking at Singapore Fintech Festival, Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said that “third-generation blockchain technology” would see digital currency “in the hands of hundreds of millions, if not billions of users.” Allaire featured on a panel alongside the CEO of Facebook’s ‘Diem’…
“# Facebook hopes to launch its crypto and wallet in 2021, top exec says ” Global regulators should grant Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Diem “the benefit of the doubt” to greenlight its launch in 2021, a top executive at Facebook Financial said. David Marcus, the head of Facebook Financial, or F2, said that both cryptocurrency Diem and…
“# Carpe ‘Diem’: Lawsuit threatened over Facebook’s Libra rebrand plan ” Facebook has been hit with threats of legal action over its plan to rebrand the Libra stablecoin project to ‘Diem’ from a finance application of the same name. Facebook announced its plan to rebrand Libra on Dec. 1, with the firm claiming the new…
“# German government unimpressed by Facebook stablecoin’s rebrand ” Facebook’s Diem stablecoin, which recently changed its name from Libra, is still failing to impress German regulators. As reported by Reuters, German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz voiced his criticism of the project on Monday after a conference between G-7 finance ministers and central bank directors. Scholz called Facebook’s…
“# Facebook’s Diem stablecoin is an existential threat to traditional banking ” Facebook, it is reported, could launch its long-awaited digital currency as early as January 2021 in the form of a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin. Central banks and regulators have been galvanized into action since Facebook first announced its intentions by publishing a white paper…
“# Congresspeople speak out against Tlaib’s anti-stablecoin bill ” On Wednesday night, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives looking to make fiat-pegged stablecoin operators abide by the same rules and registration requirements expected of banks. The legislation, under the name “the Stablecoin Tethering and Bank Licensing Enforcement (STABLE) Act,”…
“# Law Decoded: New threats to self-custody take shape in the US, Nov. 27–Dec. 4 ” Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note For several weeks, rumors have circulated in the United States that the Treasury Department under Steven Mnuchin is…
“# Audio streaming giant Spotify is looking into crypto payments ” Spotify, one of the world’s largest streaming audio providers, is looking for candidates with a crypto background to fill a new role at the company. According to a recent job post, the company is looking for an outstanding associate director to join its payments strategy…
“# Libra rebrands to Diem, hoping to shake off associations ” Per a Tuesday press release, the Libra Association is changing its name to the Diem Association. The shift is likely in the hopes of turning the page on Libra’s PR. Facebook initially announced its planned global stablecoin Libra in June of last year to…