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The new rules will look to regulate stablecoins like commercial bank money, “including the requirement that the coins should be redeemable from the stablecoin arrangement, in fiat money, at par value and on demand,” Cunliffe said. Stablecoins, however, will not receive protection against failure in the same way that commercial
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“We see this new technology, and we're not willing to make any adjustments to accommodate it,” SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said Monday on CoinDesk TV, further detailing her criticism of last week's move, which she opposed. “If you don't look exactly like incumbent firms, then we're just going to be
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Rostin Behnam, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), recently spoke out about the allegations levied against Binance, claiming that the beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange’s leadership knowingly operated outside of U.S. laws governing the exchange of commodities and futures. Speaking at a fireside chat that took place at the DeCenter Spring
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Deltec, a Cayman Islands company whose banking arm serves stablecoin company Tether, “shall and is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Alameda an amount equal to USD 52,859,644,” plus $10,538 in interest per day, bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey said in an order. Original Source
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In a fireside chat during the Hong Kong Web3 Festival, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), CEO of Binance, expressed that it is important for crypto regulators to have a deep understanding of the industry to facilitate proper crypto regulations. The fireside chat was moderated by Deng Chao, the CEO of Hashkey Capital.According
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The new R&D law has overly broad language that states “any and all” software development must be amortized over five years if the development took place in the United States, or over 15 years if the work was done overseas. The change doesn’t sound so bad on its surface; some
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A European Central Bank Supervisory Board member has warned that the crypto rules in the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) bill “will not be sufficient on their own.” While emphasizing that “MiCA will set out important safeguards to prevent incidents similar to the FTX case from occurring,” she cautioned: “Certain
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McCaul, a member of the ECB arm responsible for overseeing banks, said recent attempts to regulate such as the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA) wouldn’t fully address the problem of complex international structures, or “ecosystem” companies that claim to have no headquarters. Source
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The standards for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) in Hong Kong are set “incredibly high” as the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is wanting the crypto industry to match the same compliance standards as traditional financial firms.Speaking to Cointelegraph at the Hong Kong WOW Summit, Lucy Gazmararian, the founder of
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The National Futures Association (NFA), the United States self-regulatory organization for derivatives markets, has issued a new compliance rule addressing members’ conduct. The new rule complements requirements issued in 2018.The NFA has “well over 100” members that engage in activities with digital asset commodities, but no way to address fraud
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