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25 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Coinbase Pro will disable margin trading from Nov. 25, according to an announcement made on Nov. 25. Coinbase cited guidance from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission as the reason why it has disabled the product The exchange also...
19 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
Thailand’s financial regulators have approved new regulation that would allow businesses to classify cryptocurrency holdings as business capital, according to a report from local media outlet the Bangkok Post published on Nov. 18. Thailand’s Securit...
12 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
President-elect of the United States Joe Biden has appointed crypto-friendly former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler to lead the administration’s financial policy transition, according to a report from American Banker...
12 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments ircrp
A year after announcing that binance.com exchange will ensure that they comply with the United States based regulations the company appears to be no longer dragging their feet on the case and working quite aggressively to adapt to the compliance re...
10 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
United States SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, speaking at a conference on Nov. 9, said that the US government was slow to regulate the cryptocurrency market and that regulation in the space could be faster. Peirce was speaking at CoinDesk’s Bitcoin...
4 Nov 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has ordered exchanges to stop dealing in tokens that could potentially be used for money laundering, according to a press release issued on November 2. The announcement specifically refers to “dark coins”,...
3 Nov 2020 3 minute read 0 comments lucasc
With Donald Trump's four-year term as President of the United States coming to a close, we can take a look back at his administration's actions in regard to the cryptocurrency community and blockchain technology, and look forward to the future. Go Af...
30 Oct 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Abhimanyu Krishnan
Binance has stirred some controversy, after Forbes reported on October 29 that the exchange had conducted an “elaborate scheme” to evade regulation. Forbes reports that senior executives of Binance devised an “elaborate corporate structure..to inten...
21 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
Derivatives platform BitMEX has asked users to update their KYC information by November 5, pulling forward the deadline by 3 months as it faces a KYC/AML related case by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Originally having the deadl...
20 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Abhimanyu Krishnan
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on October 19 said that it had charged Larry Dean Harmon, the creator of Bitcoin’s first mixer, for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act. The $60 million civil lawsuit filing focuses on Harmon’s work o...
