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Belgian Regulator Warns of Crypto Scammers That Target Male Tinder Users With Fake ICOs
10.12.2020
The Belgian regulator, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), says scammers are employing new techniques which target Tinder and Facebook users. Using what the FSMA terms an “emotional scam,” criminals are targeting male users of the dating app Tinder with promises...
Linda Lacewell: A Friendlier Regulator
8.12.2020
NYDFS Superintendent Linda Lacewell is a regulator prepared to work with the grain of crypto rather than against it
Top US Banking Regulator Reveals Positive Cryptocurrency Regulation Coming in Weeks
6.12.2020
The top U.S. banking regulator has confirmed that positive cryptocurrency regulation is coming in a matter of weeks, by the end of the Trump term. “It’s going to work for everybody,” said the regulator, adding that the new regulation will “make it easier for crypto investors...
Venezuelan Army Starts Mining Bitcoin for ‘Unblockable Income’
30.11.2020
The Venezuelan Army has inaugurated a cryptocurrency mining center with bitcoin mining equipment aimed at generating “unblockable income,” as the country attempts to bypass U.S. sanctions. The crypto mining center has the support of the country’s crypto regulator, Sunacrip....
Crypto Assets in South Africa Would Be Considered Financial Products Under Regulator Proposal
21.11.2020
If implemented the declaration would require crypto firms in South Africa to register as a financial services provider
South Africa Unveils New Crypto Rules as Usage Soars Exponentially
21.11.2020
The South African financial regulator has published a draft declaration of crypto assets as financial products. The regulator says South Africa has experienced “an exponential increase in the provision and use of crypto assets.” South Africa’s Crypto Regulation South...
Texas State Securities Board Flags 15 Investment Entities Including One Unregistered Crypto Trader
21.11.2020
The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has announced a series of enforcement actions against 15 online investment entities that illegally market cryptocurrency, binary options, and forex investments in Texas. Fake Social Media Accounts The regulator alleges that operators of the companies...
US Regulator Seeks End to Bank Deplatforming of ‘Disfavored’ Industries (Like Crypto)
21.11.2020
Call it the CPR for Operation Choke Point
US regulator wants to stop banks from blacklisting legal businesses, crypto included
20.11.2020
New rule-making aims to stop "creeping politicization of the banking industry," says OCC head
A Crypto Ally as Top US Bank Regulator?
19.11.2020
President Trump has nominated former Coinbase counsel Brian Brooks to a full five-year term as Comptroller of the Currency, but will he be confirmed in time?
Pakistani Regulator Shows Positive Signs To Growing Local Crypto Market
18.11.2020
Financial regulator Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is seemingly leaning toward a more liberal stance on crypto regulation in the country with over 212m people, which is already one of the top emerging crypto markets, a recent position paper indicated.
The SECP admitted that...
Crypto-Friendly Brooks Gets Nod to Serve 5-Year Term Leading Bank Regulator
17.11.2020
Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated Acting Comptroller Brian Brooks to take on a more permanent role leading the bank regulator
Custodian Anchorage Seeks Charter From Crypto-Friendly US Bank Regulator OCC
17.11.2020
If its application is approved, Anchorage would be the first crypto company to get a national bank charter
Scaramucci’s Billion-Dollar Mega Hedge Fund Skybridge ‘May Hold Positions’ in Bitcoin
17.11.2020
In a filing registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the giant global investment firm Skybridge Capital explained that the fund Skybridge G II may invest in digital currencies like bitcoin. On November 13, the New York-based company with $7.7 billion assets under...
Pakistan’s securities regulator mulls new legal framework for crypto
12.11.2020
Pakistan wants to unlock a new era of digital finance with crypto
39 Firms Have Applied to Offer Crypto Services Under New Regulation, Says Dutch Central Bank
8.11.2020
Thirty-nine companies have applied for registration with the Dutch central bank to provide cryptocurrency services, the regulator told news.Bitcoin.com. They include crypto exchanges and custodial wallet providers. Dutch Central Bank Begins Registering Crypto Service Providers De Nederlandsche Bank...
8,000 Bitcoin Scam Victims Get Refunds From US Regulator
7.11.2020
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is refunding about 8,000 victims who lost money from investing in two bitcoin scams. The fraudulent schemes promised that investors could turn their cryptocurrency payments of about $100 into $80,000 in monthly income. Bitcoin Pyramid Schemes’ Victims...
South Korea To Ban Crypto Exchanges From Handling Privacy Coins
6.11.2020
South Korea is to ban crypto exchanges from handling digital assets it considers “dark coins”. Regulator Financial Services Commission (FSC) is specifically targeting privacy coins such as dash, monero and zcash. ● The ban is with effect from March 2021. In an update to crypto...
Whales Moving Millions in Bitcoin as Hong Kong Regulator Makes Move
3.11.2020
The world of crypto has received an unwelcome jolt after the Hong Kong financial securities regulator announced – somewhat abruptly – that all crypto exchanges will need to register with the body if they wish to continue trading.
Per Reuters, the head of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)...
South Korean Regulator Bans Privacy Coin Trading, Beefs up Crypto AML
2.11.2020
South Korea’s financial regulator is flexing its muscles with a series of new amendments to forthcoming crypto regulations – with new anti-money laundering (AML) provisos and a ban on privacy coin trading.
On Monday, Per Fn News and ZDNet Korea, as well as Paxnet, the regulatory Financial Services...