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Ethics watchdog rats out Circle for links to Tron in letter to Sens. Warren, Brown

Nonprofit ethics group Campaign for Accountability (CfA) sent a letter to U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Sherrod Brown on Nov. 9 to present them with information on the alleged use of cryptocurrency in money laundering. The letter discussed the Tron blockchain and stablecoin issuer Circle in particular.In the letter signed

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Top Senate Democrat Brown Tells Gensler, Yellen, Behnam to Use Powers to Address Crypto

“Ultimately, inadequate disclosures persist because opacity serves sponsors, executives, and other crypto industry insiders,” Brown argued. “It is far easier to profit when customers are left in the dark. That’s why the crypto companies resist real transparency and try to force Americans to accept the paltry, self-serving disclosures endemic to

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Gensler’s SEC Hearing Shows Key U.S. Senate Democrat Brown Digging in Heels on Crypto

“The problems we saw at FTX are everywhere in crypto – the failure to provide real disclosure, the conflicts of interest, the risky bets with customer money that was supposed to be safe,” said Brown, the Senate Banking Committee’s chairman, whose committee will probably have to agree to any crypto

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VORB Stock Up 70% in Pre-market, Virgin Orbit to Receive $200M Investment from Matthew Brown

Virgin Orbit stock is up over 73% in the pre-market while yesterday it closed down almost 15%. Aircraft engineering company Virgin Orbit (NASDAQ: VORB) is about to close a deal with venture capital investor Matthew Brown. Reuters reported the news referring to a term sheet that reveals that the company is nearing an

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After Months at Arm’s Length, Sen. Brown Opens Door for Crypto Legislation

“Single regulatory agencies currently generally do not have a comprehensive view of crypto asset entities’ activities,” Brown argued in his letter, which highlighted the findings of a report from the Financial Stability Oversight Council led by Yellen, including its recommendation for legislation that would “create authorities for regulators to have

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Circle Names Devron Brown, Former US House Senior Counsel for Fintech, as Director for Global Policy — CoinDesk

Circle, the payment services company that operates stablecoin USDC, subsidiary crypto exchange Poloniex and equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest, has named Devron Brown to be its senior director for global policy, according to a tweet posted by Dante Disparte, chief of strategy and head of global policy at Circle. The position

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Harvard, Yale, Brown Endowments Have Been Buying Bitcoin for at Least a Year: Sources

Some of the largest university endowment funds in the U.S. have been quietly buying cryptocurrency for the past year or so through accounts held at Coinbase and other exchanges, CryptoX has learned.According to two sources familiar with the situation, Harvard, Yale, Brown and the University of Michigan as well as

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