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EU’s McGuinness Urges Speedier Vote on Long-Delayed Crypto Laws

“Recent events have highlighted once again the importance of having adequate regulation of crypto markets” to protect client assets and the wider economy, McGuinness, commissioner for financial services, said in the letter to Irene Tinagli, chair of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, and Zbyněk Stanjura, the Czech

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Hong Kong to subject crypto exchanges to the same laws governing TradFi

Hong Kong’s legislative council has passed a new amendment to its anti-money laundering (AML) and terrorist financing system to include virtual asset service providers.The latest legislation will establish a new licensing regime for virtual asset service providers, set to come into effect from June 1, 2023. The new amendment will

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Japanese regulators loosen crypto laws and make it easier to list coins

The Japan Virtual and Crypto Assets Exchange Association, the governing body that deals with crypto assets in Japan, released documents of plans to further ease crypto laws in the country. According to a Bloomberg report, as early as December of this year, the association wants to implement a looser screening process

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Catalogue retailer Easylife fined £1.48 million for breaking data protection and electronic marketing laws

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Easylife Ltd £1,350,000 for using personal information of 145,400 customers to predict their medical condition and target them with health-related products without their consent. The company was also fined £130,000 for making

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ICO Promoter Ian Balina Charged With Violating Federal Securities Laws

In a complaint filed Monday in the Western District of Texas’s Austin Division, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Balina promoted an unregistered securities offering for SPRK tokens between April and July of 2018, and did not disclose that he was paid by the Cayman Islands-based issuer, Sparkster

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SEC, Ripple Call for Immediate Ruling in Suit Over Whether XRP Sales Violated Securities Laws

"Even if the SEC were to engage in a belated, post-discovery transaction-by-transaction analysis to identify XRP offers and sales with contracts, its claim would still fail as a matter of law. Not one of those contracts granted post-sale rights to recipients as against Ripple or imposed post-sale obligations on Ripple

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