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US House committee leadership threatens to subpoena SEC over FTX docs

Rep. Patrick McHenry, who chairs the United States House Financial Services Committee, has suggested that he may try to subpoena the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over documents related to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF.In a Sept. 27 hearing on oversight of the commission, McHenry claimed chair SEC

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US SEC Postpones Decision on ARK 21Shares Spot Bitcoin ETF to January 2024

The SEC has now postponed decisions on several spot BTC ETF applications, including ARK 21Shares, Valkyrie, WisdomTree, VanEck, and Bitwise. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially delayed making a decision on a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal from ARK 21Shares. The Commission seems to be exploiting

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US lawmakers call on SEC chair to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs ‘immediately’

Four members of the United States Congress are requesting Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler “immediately” approve the listing of spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.In a Sept. 26 letter to Gensler, U.S. Representatives Mike Flood, Wiley Nickel, Tom Emmer and Ritchie Torres claimed the SEC was

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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Is Wrong About Proof-of-Stake Tokens Like ETH

“The investing public is investing anticipating a return, anticipating something on these tokens, whether they're proof-of-stake (PoS) tokens, where they're also looking to get returns on those proof-of-stake tokens and getting 2%, 4%, 18% returns. Whatever they're promoting and putting into a protocol, and locking up their tokens in a

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SEC raises concerns over Coinbase in objection to Celsius restructuring plan

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an objection to Celsius Network’s reorganization plan based in part on the regulator’s own ongoing lawsuit with crypto exchange Coinbase.In a Sept. 22 filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, the SEC filed a limited

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Former SEC attorney John Reed Stark urges DOJ to ‘wake up’

A former attorney of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes prosecution by the Department of Justice (DOJ) is necessary to deal with crypto grifters. John Reed Stark, who spent 15 years as an SEC enforcement attorney leading cyber-related investigations, says crypto criminals treat regulatory enforcement with levity. DOJ prosecution

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