Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
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Superintendent Harris led the takeover of Signature Bank after it failed this spring. She joins Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger to reflect on the lessons of this year's banking crisis, and how she is modernizing supervision.
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HSBC plans to offer institutional clients a custody service for digital assets such as tokenized securities, the bank's latest move in the new area of finance.
November 8 -
A sweeping class-action suit in Miami federal court by investors who claim they lost billions in the collapse of FTX and seek to pin blame not just on Bankman-Fried and his inner circle, but also on celebrities who were paid to endorse it to the masses, as well as bankers, accountants and lawyers who propped up the empire's legitimacy.
November 7 -
His lawyers characterize him as a math nerd and not a criminal, but the mountain of evidence presented during his trial makes it hard to see him as innocent.
November 7 - AB - Technology
FTX's implosion made it even harder for crypto-related businesses to work with U.S. banks. With the fraud conviction of the company's founder, regulatory clarity may gradually come.
November 6 -
Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of a massive fraud that led to the collapse of his FTX exchange, following a monthlong trial.
November 2 -
The subpoena asks the company to produce documents tied to its work on the dollar-linked stablecoin PayPal USD. The company says in a regulatory filing that it's cooperating with the probe.
November 2 -
The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority released data that shows buy now/pay later lending on the rise, Ripple is working with Uphold to improve crypto liquidity and more.
November 1 -
The group, which is led by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., and includes two high-ranking Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, says the Securities and Exchange Commission's crypto-custody proposal could encroach on banking regulators' jurisdiction.
November 1 -
In a lawsuit between a Puerto Rican bank and the New York Fed, a federal judge ruled that reserve banks are not obligated to give master accounts to banks they deem risky. The decision could have implications for other master account challenges.
October 31 -
Almost a year since FTX's implosion set a minor banking crisis in motion, neither Congress nor regulators seem to be anywhere close to issuing comprehensive rules for the crypto road. That's a missed opportunity, and states are likely to fill the void.
October 31 -
The U.K. government confirmed plans to regulate cryptoasset activities more strictly, bringing them under the same regime as traditional financial services.
October 30 -
Sam Bankman-Fried spent almost three hours trying to persuade a judge to allow him to testify about the role FTX lawyers played in the lead up to the collapse of the crypto-exchange and the alleged mismanagement of customer funds.
October 26 -
Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., a senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, said he intends to press Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to refine the Basel III capital proposal before it is finalized.
October 25 -
Growing expectations that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will authorize exchange-traded funds that invest directly in the cryptocurrency after a decade of deliberation has fueled a more than 25% rally over the past two weeks.
October 25 -
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FTX Trading is considering proposals from three bidders to restart trading on what had been one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges before the company sank into bankruptcy amid fraud allegations.
October 24 -
Genesis and DCG were accused in the suit of trying to conceal spiraling losses. The state said it wants to ban Gemini, Genesis and DCG from the financial investment industry in New York.
October 19 -
NCR has completed the spinoff of its ATM business, Revolut doubles its number of fraud-fighters in two years, China builds a zone for digital yuan users, and more.
October 18 -
Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman said some limitations and frictions in the payments system are by design and cannot be swept away by tech innovations.
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