UK Financial Watchdogs Publish Plans to Regulate Stablecoins
The U.K. government published plans for regulating crypto last week. Source
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Tether to publish reserve reports in real time in 2024: Bloomberg
Tether Holdings, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, Tether (USDT), is reportedly preparing to update the frequency of releasing its reserve data reports.Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s chief technology officer and incoming CEO, disclosed that the firm plans to publish reserve data in real-time in 2024, Bloomberg reported
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Tether Will Publish Reserve Data in Real Time in 2024: Report
Stablecoin issuer Tether will publish real time data on the reserves backing USDT, the industry's largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, according to a Bloomberg report. Source
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Stellar, PwC publish ‘framework’ to judge emerging market blockchain projects
The Stellar Development Foundation, developers of the Stellar network, released a financial inclusion framework for judging the efficacy of emerging market blockchain projects. The framework was developed in cooperation with consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers International (PwC) and was explained in a white paper published on September 25. Using this framework, the teams concluded
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Hong Kong Securities Regulator to Publish List of Crypto License Applicants
According to the SCMP, four other companies have applied for licenses – HKVAX, HKBitEx, Hong Kong BGE Limited, and Victory Fintech Company Limited – but these are relatively small and unknown. Many major crypto exchanges have not signaled their intent to become licensed in Hong Kong. Source
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IMF, FSB Publish Crypto Policy Roadmap, Warn Against Blanket Bans
The policy paper, commissioned by the intergovernmental forum G20 under India’s leadership, combines norms set by the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international standard-setters for the crypto sector in one report, which found “comprehensive regulatory and supervisory oversight of crypto-assets should be a baseline
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‘Big Short’ author Michael Lewis almost ready to publish book on SBF
Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short and Moneyball, has revealed that he has almost finished writing his book on Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.The upcoming book is titled Going Infinite: the Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, and Lewis initially
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NY Fed and MAS publish joint CBDC cross-border payment project results
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s New York Innovation Center (NYIC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have published the results of their joint Project Cedar Phase II x Ubin+ (Cedar x Ubin+). The project examined the use of central bank digital currency for wholesale cross-border payments using
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IMF to publish CBDC handbook in response to increasing demand for guidance
With interest in central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) at an “unprecedented” level, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is experiencing heavy demand for guidance in regard to them. In response, the IMF planned to release a CBDC handbook, deputy managing director Bo Li said in a recent speech.The IMF official saw
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Binance and Crypto.com Publish Proof-of-Reserve Audits Conducted by Global Auditor Mazars Group – Bitcoin News
This week two cryptocurrency exchanges provided proof-of-reserves in order to highlight that the trading platforms are backing customer assets 1:1. Binance published its report on Dec. 7, 2022, and detailed the global auditor Mazars Group conducted the audit. On Dec. 9, 2022, the exchange Crypto.com published proof-of-reserves records and the
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