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"The majority of the tips received this year involved crypto – an area that continues to have pervasive fraud and other illegality," Romero said in a statement published on the CFTC website. "With the rise of crypto, more retail customers have come under the CFTC’s jurisdiction, making even more critical
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Crypto-based firms like Coinbase and MicroStrategy experience notable upticks on the stock market and Bitcoin rallies. Companies with significant cryptocurrency holdings or operations are experiencing a positive market response as Bitcoin rallies over the $35,000 mark on Oct. 24th. Crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc. and corporate Bitcoin investor MicroStrategy Inc. saw their
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Ayman Alsayari, the governor of the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), is encouraging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to regulate cryptocurrency. “We need good supervision, regulation, and coordination of crypto currency activities,” Alsayari said at a recent event in Marrakech, Morocco, where the IMF Annual Meetings were held from Oct. 9-15. “In
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Q1 witnessed $330 million in losses, while Q2 reported $333 million. In stark contrast, the third quarter already recorded losses of nearly $890 million. September 2023 has proven to be a grim month for the crypto market, with blockchain analytics firm CertiK revealing that it has witnessed a staggering rise in
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eToro will be in a position to offer cross-border crypto services after the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework goes into effect in December 2024. An investing platform with over 32 million registered users, eToro, has announced that it is ready to offer crypto-related services in the European Union
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Progress can have its drawbacks, as the French stock market regulator, the nongovernmental Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), has noticed. According to the AMF ombudsman, digital asset-related mediations rose sharply in 2022, as did the number of registered digital asset service providers (DASPs).In its newly released 2022 annual report, the
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Elliptic, which published its report on the topic Tuesday, says cryptocurrency wallets attached to darknet merchants which sell fentanyl as well as precursors have received $27 million in payments (though over exactly what time frame is unclear), while Chainalysis pegged the number at $37.8 million since 2018. Source
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied According to a SEC filing, Metropolitan Commercial Bank is almost done terminating its crypto-related services. The bank currently has $278.5 million in deposits tied to cryptos. The bank reported that its withdrawal from the crypto industry was
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Prior to today's upside action, bitcoin had been locked in a very tight range on either side of $28,000 for about 10 days. There's no apparent news behind Monday's sizable gains. Wednesday the consumer price index (CPI) will be released for March, one of the more important pieces of economic
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The company, said the CFTC, operated a derivatives trading operation in the U.S., offering trades for numerous cryptocurrencies, all of which the CFTC said are commodities. The suit also alleged that Binance, under Zhao’s leadership, directed its employees to spoof their locations through the use of virtual private networks. Source
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