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Kristin Johnson, one of five commissioners currently serving at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, has announced that a CME Group executive director with experience in crypto will be joining her staff.In a Thursday announcement, Johnson said Bruce Fekrat will be her chief counsel at the CFTC
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Several U.S. lawmakers and a commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have voiced concerns about the securities regulator expanding its crypto enforcement unit. “The SEC is a regulatory agency with an enforcement division, not an enforcement agency.” Lawmakers Oppose SEC’s Crypto Enforcement Focus A number of lawmakers and a
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Mairead McGuinness, the commissioner for financial services, financial stability and capital markets union at the European Commission, is calling for global regulators to work together to address potential risks in the crypto market.In a Sunday opinion piece in political media outlet The Hill, McGuinness said the European Union and the
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In life, there are times when things are going well in your business affairs but not your personal ones. Other times, the things you are doing and enjoying in your personal life are great but your professional or business matters are suffering. Sometimes, you also don’t realize or understand that
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“A digital euro should comply with AML requirements but this is different to the current discussion on cryptoassets,” she said in a written interview. “We will be assessing whether a higher level of privacy should be made available, in particular, for low-value transactions, depending on the risk characteristics of the
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Securities and Exchange Commissioner Allison Herren Lee announced that she would be stepping down from her post at the end of her term in June. In a Tuesday announcement, Lee said that she will remain in the role until her successor has been confirmed. The SEC commissioner has spent less
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Newly appointed Information Commissioner John Edwards has announced a major listening exercise to hear direct from businesses, organisations and people about their experiences of working with the ICO. The exercise will include a survey, as well as a series
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed its decision to approve NYDIG’s spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) for Bitcoin (BTC), delaying until March 16.In a notice published on Tuesday, the SEC found it “appropriate to designate a longer period within which to issue an order approving or disapproving” the
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John Edwards begins his new role as UK Information Commissioner today (Tuesday 4 January). Mr Edwards, who joins on a five year term, spent the past eight years as New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, and before that worked as a
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Forming a single regulator to oversee crypto would not be a panacea for the industry’s regulatory woes, said U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce on CoinDesk TV’s First Mover Thursday.“I certainly understand the impulse to call for one regulator. I have a couple problems with it,” Peirce said.
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