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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have filed parallel lawsuits against Stephen Ehrlich, the former CEO of crypto lending firm Voyager Digital.In an Oct. 12 announcement, the CFTC said it had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
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Officials at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) were reportedly considering an enforcement action against Stephen Ehrlich, the former CEO of crypto lending firm Voyager Digital.According to an Oct. 6 Bloomberg report, CFTC staff were considering taking action against Ehrlich following an investigation concluding the former CEO violated
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The SEC’s recent approval of Ethereum ETFs confirms its status as a non-security, says former CFTC Chairman Brian Quintenz, who is currently a head of policy of a16z crypto. On Oct. 2, the financial market welcomed a total of nine ETF products aimed at tracking futures contracts linked to Ether, the
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United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chair Rostin Behnam highlighted his agency’s activity in the crypto sphere and the need for up-to-date legislation at the Financial Industry Association Expo 2023 event in Chicago. He described the CFTC Enforcement Division’s efforts as a “nonstop drumbeat.”In the text version of his
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A new bill in the United States aims to require cryptocurrency service providers to report all blockchain transactions to a government repository.On Sept. 28, U.S. Representative Don Beyer introduced the “Off-Chain Digital Commodity Transaction Reporting Act,” requiring trading platforms to report all transactions to a repository registered with the Commodity Futures Trading
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission placed a trio of decentralized crypto platforms into its crosshairs last week. An aggressive set of charges from the CFTC – which zeroed in on how the trading platforms handle certain kinds of third-party token swaps – contrasted with the regulator’s more lenient image. Original
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Rather than backtracking trade activities after the fraud has occurred, the CFTC commissioner believes the focus should be on preventing them. A commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christy Goldsmith Romero has proposed several measures to improve investor protection. Romero made the proposal while speaking at the North American
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CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero recommended regulators modernize its protection measures using technological advances as she warned that failure to do so would have a negative impact on American investors.Romero, speaking at the North American Securities Administrators Association’s annual meeting in San Diego, California, said that the government’s inability to
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In its press release, the CFTC was specific about the labels it would have applied to the DeFi apps. Opyn, for instance, a type of decentralized insurance provider, should have had licenses for a “swap execution facility” (SEF) and “designated contract market” (DCM) as well as a “futures commission merchant”
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The United States regulators have finally taken steps to resolve an enforcement case against the collapsed Mirror Trading International (MTI).The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas has ordered MTI to pay $1.7 billion in restitution to victims for operating a fraudulent scheme involving digital assets and
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