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Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital Holdings has sealed a deal with the United States Federal government that moves forward a $1 billion plan allowing Voyager to sell its assets to the U.S. arm of Binance.An April 19 filing in a New York District Court saw Voyager, the Official Committee of
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While regulators and policymakers dither and try to decide if cryptocurrencies have a future in the economy, early adopters, including terrorists and violent extremists, are exploiting a law enforcement blind spot. The ease by which money laundering and terrorism financing take place with cryptocurrencies and the more dangerous privacy coins are
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Michael Barr, vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve, says that SVB’s deposits were in major trouble on the day regulators seized and took control over the bank. Earlier this month, the downfall of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) sent shockwaves across the US banking sector. The bank struggled
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Over the past century, the number of American banks has significantly decreased, dropping from 30,000 banks in 1921 to 4,997 U.S. banks in 2021, according to data from the Federal Reserve. Recently, the U.S. central bank denied Custodia Bank of Wyoming, a financial institution that holds $1.08 for every dollar
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Bitcoin continued to hover at around $28,000, up slightly on Wednesday, although some traders see the price going up to $30,000 or falling to $25,000 on positive or negative momentum depending on what the Federal Reserve announces about interest rates. Analysts expect the Fed to raise rates by a quarter-point.
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"QE is increasing the balance sheet for monetary purposes. This is about financial stability, and all expansion of the balance sheet is not QE," Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Bannockburn Global Forex and author of the book "Making Sense of the Dollar" told CryptoX in an email. Source
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The U.S. Labor Department released the consumer price index (CPI) report on Tuesday. Although inflation increased in February year-over-year, the rise was expected, and the annual inflation rate for all items was 6%. The cooling inflation has eased some concerns, but fears of financial contagion have spread. Market strategists are
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Barr, a former Treasury Department official who briefly became an adviser for Ripple before returning to a government role in the Biden administration, didn’t mention Silvergate Bank in the statement, though that smaller institution was also supervised by the Fed. Source
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The stablecoin USDC has nearly regained parity with the U.S. dollar after rising just above $0.99 on March 12, 2023, at 7:20 p.m. Eastern Time. The stablecoin jumped back to the $0.99 range after the U.S. Federal Reserve revealed it would bail out depositors of California’s Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
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The show Macro Markets, hosted by Marcel Pechman, which airs every Friday at 12 pm ET on the Cryptox Markets & Research YouTube channel, explains complex concepts in layman’s terms and focuses on the cause and effect of traditional financial events on the day-to-day crypto activity.In today’s episode, crypto analyst
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