In a speech held on Thursday at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2023 conference, a top compliance employee stated that Binance has discovered a way to keep North Koreans away from its crypto exchange. The head of financial crime compliance at Binance, Tigran Gambaryan, emphasized the exchange’s efforts. He declared that his 700-member
U.S. regulators continue their crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry, with the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) admonishing Binance Holdings Ltd over its compliance with U.S. rules. In a lawsuit against Binance and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao (C.Z.), CFTC alleged that the company and its top executive had
David Schwartz, Ripple CTO’s mockery about the US government institutions has gained various stakeholders’ attention. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) recent activity of suing Binance and its CEO, CZ is really affecting the crypto market. Additionally, CFTC proposed Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin to be commodities. Whereas, U.S. Securities and Exchange
The social dominance of XRP, the cryptocurrency linked to Ripple Labs, has significantly increased recently. Following that, the XRP token has surged over 12% in the last 24 hours to hit a ten-month high of $0.55. This is the first time since May 08, 2022, XRP has achieved this feat.
The crypto regulatory landscape is witnessing the most crucial disputes of all time. On Monday, the US Commodity Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) pulled Binance into a lawsuit, accusing the exchange’s compliance system — calling it a “sham.” Markedly, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) recorded his reply to the regulator
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of the United States is advising lawmakers to grant regulators the authority to examine the books of any firm seeking to acquire a significant interest in any registered market player. Commissioner Kristin Johnson has proposed that Congress pass legislation to close the current oversight
The cryptocurrency exchange FTX collapse called the commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to stop allowing crypto exchanges to “self-certify” and list tokens in an unregulated way. CFTC commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero stated that; I urge Congress to avoid permitting newly-regulated crypto exchanges to self-certify products for listing,
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the United States District Court of Southern District of New York on Monday against the “Mango Markets exploiter” Avraham Eisenberg for indulging in illicit market manipulation. This is the first time CFTC will charge an illegitimate trader with
Andreessen Horowitz, better known as a16z, a crypto venture capital company, has announced that Brian Quintenz will now serve as its full-time head of policy. After serving as a commissioner of the CFTC under both Obama and Trump. Quintenz initially joined a16z in September 2021 as a senior adviser. During
Ripple’s APAC (Asia Pacific) policy director said that the collapse of FTX is exactly why crypto needs to move away from the hype cycle and towards real utility. He also described that the FTX fall is incredible damage for the crypto space, but it says that the industry should stand
