Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
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A former Coinbase Global manager admitted participating in a scheme to trade on confidential information about when the exchange was going to list new tokens.
February 7 -
SEBA Bank, a crypto bank backed by Julius Baer Group Ltd., hired an ex-JPMorgan Chase banker as its Asia Pacific chief executive.
February 7 -
Bank of England and the U.K. Treasury stepped up work on creating a digital currency to sit alongside physical banknotes and sought to allay concerns that the work could threaten the stability of banks.
February 7 -
Signature Bank was accused in a lawsuit by an investment firm of facilitating the FTX collapse by allowing the now-defunct crypto exchange to commingle customer accounts with its blockchain network.
February 7 -
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, said it's temporarily suspending deposits and withdrawals of U.S. dollars using bank accounts, and will work to restart the service soon.
February 6 -
Without proper oversight of cryptocurrency exchanges, we will continue to see hucksters and dilettantes making off with customers' funds.
February 6 -
Republicans have increasingly negative views of banks, while the banking industry is finding modest, but growing common ground with Democratic lawmakers.
February 3 -
Familiar face returns to Barclays, a goodbye by NFT at Mastercard and more in banking news this week.
February 3 -
U.S. prosecutors in the Justice Department's fraud unit are looking into Silvergate Capital Corp.'s dealings with the fallen crypto giants FTX and Alameda Research, according to people familiar with the matter.
February 2 -
The embattled FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has staved off a case alleging he broke Texas securities laws, after a judge ruled that the state regulator lacks jurisdiction to act against him.
February 2 -
It's been less than three months since FTX collapsed in what U.S. prosecutors called one of the biggest financial frauds in American history — and a former top executive is eager to get it all behind him and move on to his next big thing.
February 2 -
LevelField CEO Gene Grant says its strategy for merging with Burling Bank is super-conservative, despite an intention to serve the digital-asset community. "We've taken everything out of the business plan" that might give regulators pause, he says.
February 1 -
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., said that if legislation would increase spending, lawmakers need to offset that spending within the committee's jurisdiction.
February 1 -
Coinbase won dismissal of a lawsuit by consumers alleging the cryptocurrency exchange facilitated the sale of unregistered securities on its platform.
February 1 -
Twitter signals plan for payments, Barclays opens banking pods as a branch alternative, and more. Here's what's happening around the world.
February 1 - AB - Technology
One of the few crypto companies to receive a banking charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Anchorage is putting more people and resources into compliance.
January 31 -
The company wants to get bids in as quickly as possible to take advantage of current market conditions, a lawyer for the crypto lender said.
January 30 -
From BNY Mellon to the mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, BlackRock and Nomura Holdings, members of the Wall Street establishment are planning for a future in digital assets.
January 30 -
A senior Commodity Futures Trading Commission official says the agency needs the power to approve or reject an unregulated company's acquisition of a derivatives exchange.
January 30 -
Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange run by the Winklevoss brothers, hired a fintech veteran as new head of finance even as it undergoes another round of layoffs and deals with uncertainty over whether users of its Earn program will get their money back.
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