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Further, Binance appears to be overcollateralized for many of the largest assets on its books, like bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), tether (USDT) and others, meaning Binance’s net balances are more than it owes customers. In other words, if every Binance customer withdrew every bitcoin they owned, the exchange would have
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Crypto exchange Binance and its founder, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao will pay nearly $3 billion in fines to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settling the regulator's lawsuit against it. The company is also settling with the U.S. Department of Justice and Treasury Department in parallel actions on Tuesday. Original Source
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Dubai’s VARA CEO Henson Orser resigns amid impending fines on non-compliant crypto firms. The leader of the United Arab Emirate’s primary cryptocurrency oversight body, Henson Orser, is set to resign. This departure comes as the authority gears up to enforce strict penalties on several digital asset companies that haven’t complied with
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has slapped Thor Technologies and its CEO, David Chin, with a $1.05m fine for promoting securities without the required license. The SEC found Thor Technologies and its CEO, David Chin, guilty in absentia of promoting securities without a license. The regulator fined the company
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Gucci held the Ancora Fashion show late last week with a new creative director Sabato De Sarno at the heart of the designs. Gucci, a fashion behemoth and subsidiary to Kering SA (Paris: KER), made a strategic digital move to widen its global reach through the fast-growing metaverse industry. Having held
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A federal judge has sentenced former OpenSea product manager Nathaniel Chastain to three months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering related to insider trading on the platform.In an Aug. 22 announcement from the United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Chastain had been sentenced to three
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"Defendants agree that, as to Bittrex, the terms of the settlement reflected in this Consent and in the Judgment are subject to approval by the Bankruptcy Court in the Bankruptcy Case and shall be treated as an allowed, unsecured claim under the terms of any Plan filed by Bittrex in
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Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network has posted that the company is pleased with the resolutions that it was able to reach with various United States government agencies. The announcement came after the news that the FTC has imposed a $4.7 billion fine on the company.On July 13, the United States
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to postpone the payment of a $30 million fine from bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi until creditors are paid back. The amount represents the balance of a $50 million settlement with the regulator from February 2022. According to June 22 court filings,
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The regulator asserted its claims should be counted as part of "general unsecured claims" in the ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, but agreed to forego the payment "in order to maximize the amount that may be distributed to investors and avoid delay in such distribution," according to the agreement reached
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