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Welcome to Law Decoded, your weekly digest of all the major developments in the field of regulation.There was some substantial good news for crypto last week, but the prevailing storyline is still the unfolding of FTX. While the extradition of the failed exchange’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried seemed pretty logical from
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Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX has declined to testify before the United States Congress until he’s “finished learning and reviewing what happened.”Rep. Waters, and the House Committee on Financial Services:Once I have finished learning and reviewing what happened, I would feel like it was my
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United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Rostin Behnam told a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee meeting Dec. 1 that his agency’s regulations contain “core elements that have served the markets for decades.” But as the fallout from the FTX collapse gets sorted out, notable gaps in current legislation
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The regulator is pursuing a cease and desist order against FTX, Administrative Fines, and a refund of the assets received from investors amongst other demands.In an ongoing effort to uncover the mishaps that befell the FTX empire, the Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has summoned Sam Bankman-Fried to a hearing
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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been called to a Feb. 2 hearing by the Texan securities regulator as part of an investigation into whether he and FTX US have violated Texas securities laws. In a Notice of Hearing signed off by Texas State Securities Board’s (SSB’s) director of enforcement Joe
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The Texas State Securities Board has been investigating FTX US since October. Original Source
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Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph
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FTX’s collapse has kicked off the most complicated bankruptcy process so far for the crypto ecosystem, with 102 different court dockets and a first day hearing that took well over a week to schedule. Millions of people’s money is at risk, and that’s ignoring the broader contagion concerns within the
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“You have witnessed probably one of the most abrupt and difficult collapses in the history of corporate America,” an attorney for FTX said during the company’s first bankruptcy hearing on Tuesday. Source
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The Agriculture Committee announced the hearing the same day it published a defense of the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act, a bill supported by Bankman-Fried. Industry participants have expressed concern over whether the bill might harm decentralized finance (DeFi) projects, while the committee said Monday that regulated entities under the
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