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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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Speaking with CoinDesk, Rettig shared her interest in the two companies working together. “I think there will be lots of opportunities for Silvergate as a partner and a collaborator, as we from the Web 3 side, and they from the banking side, continue to bring crypto to institutions and traditional
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Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN) has hired former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employee Thaya Knight as its senior public policy manager.Knight was the counsel to Commissioner Elad Roisman at the SEC since November 2020 and in a LinkedIn post, she said that Friday was her last day at the
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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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The New York-based Xethalis, formerly of Chapman and Cutler LLP, has long tackled crypto’s square-peg-round-hole regulatory status. He worked with the Winklevoss brothers in 2012 to submit the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) application to U.S. regulators (the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has still yet to approve a single
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Dan Berkovitz, one of three commissioners currently serving at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will be joining the Securities and Exchange Commission as general counsel following his departure in October.In a Sept. 28 announcement, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, said Berkovitz would assume the role of general
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James Emmett, Libra Networks Managing Director, is convinced that the expertise of Saumya Bhavsar will be crucial in launching and managing the permissioned blockchain-based payment system.Libra Networks, a subsidiary of the Libra Association has announced the appointment of legal expert Saumya Bhavsar as General Counsel of Libra Networks. The independent
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Stevan Bunnel is joining the Libra Association to replace Stuart Levey as the organization’s lead counsel.The Libra Association led by social media giant Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) has appointed former Homeland security top counsel, Stevan Bunnel as its lead counsel. This latest appointed, first reported by Bloomberg is the second
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Paul Grewal, a former US magistrate judge in California and Deputy General Counsel for Facebook, is joining crypto exchange Coinbase’s legal team.In a July 8 announcement on the Coinbase blog, the crypto exchange said the addition of Grewal will help “pave the way for the next phase of crypto awareness
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Security token platform TokenSoft has hired Alex C. Levine, formerly of several key United States financial regulators, to handle compliance for all security offerings.In a Dec. 17 press release, the San Francisco-based token issuance platform announced the hiring of Levine as its new chief legal officer of TokenSoft and
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