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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its 2022 Bank Supervision Operating Plan on Friday and for the first time, crypto made the cut.In its report, the federal banking regulator listed its 11 supervisory priorities for the fiscal year that ends next September, including cybersecurity, climate change
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Australian lawmakers are taking a tougher stance against ransomware with a new plan that increases penalties for offenders.The new measures and proposed Surveillance Legislation Amendment announced by the federal government on Oct. 13 come after a 60% surge in cyberattacks on Australian businesses and state agencies last year. According to
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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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SEC Chairman Gary Gensler says that the SEC has no plan to ban cryptocurrencies as China has done. He noted that it would be up to Congress to make such a decision. Recently, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell similarly said that the Fed had no intention to ban or limit
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Los activos digitales no son de curso legal como sí lo es el peso uruguayo, y no son emitidos ni están respaldados por ningún banco central, dijo el BCU, entidad que añadió que la emisión y negociación de activos digitales no entran en el ámbito de actividades del banco central,
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In 2021, the BCU created an internal working group to study instruments and operations with virtual assets using an interdisciplinary approach. As a result of this initiative, the entity developed a “conceptual framework based on the business reality of the different operations involving virtual assets, including both new activities and
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One of the largest darknet markets (DNM), White House, announced the market is retiring as the DNM’s administrators say the team has reached its goal. After revealing the retirement plan, White House admins explained that user registration and orders have been disabled. Darknet Market White House Plans to Close Its
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The gaming industry in South Korea has been booming since the dawn of computer games — people of different generations have been fierce advocates for Starcraft in the 1990s and 2000s, and League of Legends in the 2010s. South Korean game developers are always looking to bring a new breed
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The uncertainties sparked by China’s blanket ban on crypto trading have taken a downturn as homegrown crypto exchanges such as Houbi take proactive measures to protect and return existing investments residing on the mainland. Speaking to Cryptox in this regard, Du Jun, co-founder of Huobi Group, said that the crypto exchange
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The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has dropped its plan to launch a lending program after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) threatened to sue the company. Coinbase Will Not Launch Lending Program Coinbase announced Friday that it has decided not to launch the Lend program. The exchange wrote: Our goal is to
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