Five days prior to Treasury’s deadline, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to boost the federal debt ceiling. With the majority of Democrats and Republicans voting in favor, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt limit. Also, the bill would
In a recent release of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes, some startling revelations have emerged, shedding light on the discussions and concerns among officials during the May meeting. These minutes provide crucial insights into the current state of the economy and the future path of monetary policy. Let’s
FedNow is an initiative of the Federal Reserve Bank for a new, enriched payment service. The announcement is about launching this payment service in the upcoming July 2023. It is one of several services of the Federal Reserve, including FedWire, a credit transfer service, and FedACH, an automated clearing house.
The New York and Federal financial regulators have rejected the largest crypto exchange Binance’s $1.2 billion assets acquisition of bankruptcy cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital. According to a 22nd February document, regulators believed it might be discriminatory and illegal. Binance U.S resubmitted its bid on Voyager after FTX filed for Chapter
Today the U.S based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) shares soared by more than 24%, despite the Federal Reserve’s most recent hike in interest rates and statements from Fed Chair Jerome Powell about the Fed’s efforts in battling the high rate of inflation. Further, on Wednesday, a U.S. judge dismissed the
Following Federal Prosecutors asked U.S. district judge Lewis Kaplan to modify the terms of the Sam Bankman-Fried bond agreement. SBF’s lawyer pleaded U.S. judge not to restrict the cryptocurrency exchange FTX executive’s ability to contact former colleagues as a condition of his release on bail. According to a 27th January
U.S Federal prosecutors seized around $700 million in cash and assets. That was either owned by the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX or associated with its founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, ‘SBF.’ According to a court document filed on Friday, federal investigators in the Southern District of New York have
The US inflation crossed the planned 2% and reached a decade high of 8.9% Crypto and digital assets need regulation similar to banking and capital market ones. On June 22, Federal Chairperson Jerome H Powell presented the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress. The policy report had statements regarding the
In January 2021, bitcoin gained 14.18 percent in value. BTC investors sold out in response to the US Fed Reserve statement. With increasing bond rates and other government policies taking a toll on bitcoin’s price in January 2022, the most popular cryptocurrency lost more value than in the same month
Lately, there have been many regulation issues popping up in some countries. Few countries have imposed strong laws for regulations on crypto trading and exchange platforms. Likewise, the CFTC has announced that the US federal court has imposed a penalty against a forex broker. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
