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For a bitcoin ETF to win the day its issuer must establish what the SEC calls a “surveillance sharing agreement” with another major, compliance-minded market upon which the asset trades. It’s a simple argument, really. Any would-be manipulator would need to influence one market to reap gains on the other.
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Investing in cryptocurrencies “doesn’t make sense right now,” Twitter CFO Ned Segal said, according to the Wall Street Journal.Twitter would have to change its investment policy to hold more volatile assets on its balance sheet, Segal said. The company prefers to hold less volatile assets, such as securities, he added.Fintech
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is laying the technological foundations for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in case it decides to issue one, Managing Director Ravi Menon said at the Singapore Fintech Festival.However, the case for a retail CBDC is not urgent, Menon said, according to a report
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“There are other, safer ways of achieving the same objectives. For example, we could require 100% of stablecoin reserves to be maintained off-balance sheet, or require stablecoin reserves to be maintained at a Federal Reserve Bank, which is, by definition, risk-free. We already have a case study in this –
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Oct. 26 sent what’s known as a “Notice of Penalty Offense” to more than 1,000 companies, including the crypto exchanges Blockchain, Gemini, U.K.-based Bixo and other fintech and crypto firms. The notices, which warn businesses not to overstate the earning potential of investments
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As huge financial intermediaries increasingly censor online content providers, decentralized technologies de-censor them. It’s not always clear which side to cheer for.Allie Eve Knox, a sex worker who specializes in financial-related fetishes, woke up on Oct. 15 to find that of the thousand or so videos that she has uploaded
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Randal Quarles, who also chairs the Financial Stability Board, said he’s not certain how a central bank digital currency could address financial inclusivity concerns. Oct 20, 2021 at 9:14 p.m. UTCUpdated Oct 20, 2021 at 9:25 p.m. UTCFSB Chair Randal Quarles (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) Original Source
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The 21 million cap may not be encoded into bitcoin permanently, but it’s become a definitional aspect of it. If it were to change, that wouldn’t be Bitcoin. It’s part of the brand, yes. But also what believers are buying into – that bitcoin separates itself from an inflationary economy
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While Russia continues to enforce a ban on cryptocurrency payments as part of a law which took effect in January, the country has no plans at this time to completely prohibit trading by its citizens.According to an Oct. 12 report from local news agency Interfax, Alexey Moiseev, the deputy finance
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Dan Berkovitz, one of three commissioners currently serving at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said while the agency is suited to futures contracts, swaps, and options trading, it would need additional resources to handle the cash market for crypto assets.Speaking at the Managed Funds Association Digital Assets Conference on
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