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Update: “Coin Signals” trader also faces charges from the CFTC
For Jeremy Spence, also known as "Coin Signals," the news just gets worse.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has unveiled civil fraud charges against Spence...
FBI arrests 24-year-old crypto trader for commodities and wire fraud
U.S. criminal authorities have brought criminal charges against a crypto trader who they say defrauded investors out of over $5 million.
The Department of Justice announced on...
With Yellen confirmed, Treasury moves forward with stalled crypto monitoring rule
The Treasury has opened the comment period on...
Ripple ran crypto's most expensive lobbying program in 2020
Ripple Labs spent $690K on lobbying in the U.S. in 2020, which still didn't save the firm from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Per legally...
Law Decoded: Bank payments going global with stablecoins and CBDCs, Jan. 15–22
Editor's note
It may be too late for resolutions and too early for Lent, but lacking any discrete occasion I would still like to give...
Tarbert makes way for Biden's CFTC chair, but will remain a commissioner
Heath Tarbert is no longer the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but he will remain one of its five commissioner
In a CFTC...
While China's CBDC sets the pace, the yuan stumbles in usage abroad
Despite rapid advancement of a digital yuan, China's progress in internationalizing its currency has stalled out in recent months.
Per data from SWIFT's RMB Tracker...
NYDFS hosts crypto industry competition to get real-time data on Bitlicensees
New York's financial regulator is asking for new tools to gather real-time financial data.
On Thursday, the New York Department of Financial Services announced new...
Antitrust watchdogs around the world are going back to school to study blockchain and AI
Competition authorities are hitting the books when it comes to emerging technologies like blockchain and AI.
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced that it...
Decentralization in the centers of power: Learn crypto from Biden's SEC chair pick, part 3/3
This is the third article in a three-part series based on Gary Gensler's extensive prior public statements on crypto. Here are parts 1 and...