Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency
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Federal Reserve Gov. Christopher Waller deconstructed fellow board members' arguments that a central bank digital currency would further the dollar's status as the global reserve currency.
October 14 -
A preemptive move to establish an SRO could create necessary safeguards while holding off burdensome intrusion from the federal government.
October 14 -
Anchorage Digital Bank and the Provenance Blockchain Foundation have partnered to let banks take a stake in the Provenance blockchain, run nodes of it and receive fees and peace of mind in return.
October 13 - AB - Technology
The Financial Stability Board proposed recommendations for companies that offer crypto-asset and stablecoin services following "crypto winter."
October 13 -
The Wyoming-chartered digital bank, which is suing the Federal Reserve for the right to a master account, says the central bank is applying a double standard on crypto custody.
October 13 -
Voyager Digital Ltd. creditors are taking issue with plans to provide the crypto lender's directors and officers with immunity from lawsuits tied to its descent into bankruptcy.
October 13 - AB - Policy & Regulation
Rep. Patrick McHenry, ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, said he and Maxine Waters, who chairs the panel, agree stablecoins should be backed one-to-one.
October 12 -
The U.S. Treasury Department faces a second lawsuit over its August decision to sanction Tornado Cash, a crypto-mixing service that obscures sources of coin transactions.
October 12 -
The vice chair for supervision warned banks to be on the lookout for liquidity risks and illegal activity when dealing with the crypto sector.
October 12 -
The crypto custodian Copper Technologies has obtained $196 million in fresh funding this year, as part of an ongoing series C investment in the business.
October 12 -
Grayscale Investments, the largest crypto asset manager, said the Securities and Exchange Commission acted arbitrarily earlier this year in rebuffing a bid to convert its $12 billion spot bitcoin trust into an exchange-traded fund.
October 12 -
An attacker spirited away about $100 million from the decentralized finance provider Mango by manipulating the price of its token in an exploit that wiped out depositors on the crypto platform.
October 12 -
The SEC sued Ripple in 2020, alleging that the crypto payments company and its top executives misled XRP investors because it failed to register the digital asset as a security and did not provide adequate disclosure.
October 11 -
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael Hsu referenced several large crypto firm meltdowns in the last year, including Voyager and Celsius.
October 11 -
Top executives at the bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network withdrew at least $30 million of cryptocurrencies in the month before suspending customer withdrawals from the platform, court documents show.
October 6 -
Citigroup's venture capital investing group made its first digital-asset seed investment in a Hong Kong-based digital-asset management firm.
October 6 -
The lawmakers have asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to share the Department of Justice's analysis on creating a central bank digital currency by Oct. 15.
October 5 -
In the master account lawsuit, the Fed says reserve banks aren't subject to administrative procedure law, and urges the court not to jeopardize the balance Congress has created with the Federal Reserve System.
October 5 -
U.S. lawmakers' efforts to pass significant crypto legislation by the end of the year are on life support, leaving in place Washington's scattershot approach to digital coins.
October 5 -
In global news this week, Societe Generale makes a fintech acquisition, Mastercard expands in Latin America, Argentina fuels crypto mining, and more.
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