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If a crypto firm starts acting like a bank, it should be regulated like one, which won't be easy, said Andrea Enria, chair of the supervisory board at the European Central Bank (ECB), during a Wednesday interview with four European Union media outlets. Source
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A software layer designed to make staking easy, sFOX allows professional users, high-net-worth individuals, hedge funds and the like to store their staked crypto in Wyoming trust company accounts that offer complete segregation and protection of customer funds in the unlikely event of company bankruptcy, according to a press release. Source
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Coinbase Advanced allows retail traders in the United States access to regulated crypto futures contracts four months after Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM) secured approval to operate a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) entity.On Aug. 17, CFM secured regulatory approval from the National Futures Association (NFA), a Commodity Futures Trading Commission-designated self-regulatory
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The London-based company has also tokenized an abrdn market fund in euros, pounds and dollars and has "a pipeline of several hundred million dollars worth of funds coming in to be held in that tokenized money market fund and where people can receive a yield based on the money market
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Bitwise will be introducing its customers to CME futures through the AETH and BTOP products that expand the company’s suite of crypto products amid heightened demand from institutional investors. Leading crypto index fund manager in the United States Bitwise announced that it will be launching two of its Ethereum-themed ETFs dubbed
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“An important differentiator is what we as a regulated custodian can and cannot do,” Gebbing said. “What you will not find, for example, is that we just connect Finoa wallets to any kind of decentralized app out there, permissionless DeFi and whatnot. It’s really a filtered, curated set of d'apps
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“There is a common misconception that DeFi is truly decentralized and governed by autonomous code or smart contracts,” Tuang Lee Lim, Chair of IOSCO’s Board-Level Fintech Task Force, said in a statement. “In reality, regardless of the operating model of the DeFi arrangement, 'responsible persons' can be identified.” Original Source
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The Regulated Liability Network (RLN) has completed its United Kingdom discovery phase and is prepared to proceed to a use case with retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to its latest report. The RLN project seeks to accommodate central bank, commercial bank and regulated non-bank transactions operating within “partitions”
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As Coinbase Inc. (COIN) scraps with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on its right to exist as an exchange, the company has achieved an unprecedented milestone in U.S. oversight by winning approval to handle customers’ buying and selling of crypto futures. Original Source
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In terms of those rules, a big one is the removal of bankruptcy risk, Hessert said. “Customers' assets are protected, including if Paxos were to go bankrupt – a situation we now see with a bunch of companies in crypto. If you can end up sitting in line as a
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