The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged investment giant BlackRock’s former Portfolio Manager Randy Robertson on Thursday for failing to declare a conflict of interest. Robertson has committed to paying a $250,000 fine to settle charges. Also, he accepted a cease-and-desist order without acknowledging or refuting the SEC’s findings.
Financial services company Cowen’s analysts lowered their rating on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Thursday. Following FTX’s demise and the general fall in trading volumes in the cryptocurrency market. Crypto firms are under closer scrutiny than ever. The price of COIN dropped by 8.89% at the time of writing, and it
While FTX was in bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had seized $450 million worth of Robinhood stock. To acquire ownership in the publicly listed Robinhood platform. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX co-founder Gary Wang launched a holding company named Emergent in
An agreement has been reached between the New York State Department of Financial Services and Coinbase, a publicly listed cryptocurrency exchange based in the United States, for the payment of a fine of $50 million. The exchange was found to be in breach of anti-money-laundering laws. When it was discovered
The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance U.S has received a “limited objection” from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the planned $1 billion acquisition of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital. SEC disclosed the statement by declining the acquisition proposal due to a lack of “adequate information”. According to
A recent allegation claims that Huobi Exchange is pressuring its staff to take compensation in USDT/USDC rather than traditional fiat currencies. Further, they are threatened with termination if they object to the proposed manner of payment. Human resources are talking to workers about the same thing. Workers are angry about
After the commodities agency hands over cryptocurrency assets to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in 2023, Indonesia plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. Bappebti, the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency, monitors the cryptocurrency and commodity contract exchanges in Indonesia. Didid Noordiatmoko, the interim chairman of Bappebti, has said that the
ANC Pharmacy, the biggest pharmacy chain in Ukraine, has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Binance to accept cryptocurrency payments from clients. Many times during the previous few months, the exchange has helped the war-torn nation. Shortly after the start of the Russian “special military operation,” it provided digital assets worth $10
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to federal charges in New York on Tuesday. SBF charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud. And also individual accusations of securities fraud and wire fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to circumvent campaign financing restrictions. At the beginning of
On January 3, 2023, the 34th Division of the Criminal Agreement of the Seoul Central District Court acquitted Lee Jung-hoon, the former head of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb. During his trial, Jung-hoon faced charges of fraud under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes. The
