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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Faces New Bribery Charges for Alleged Crypto Payment to Chinese Officials

28.3.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX, now faces a 13-count indictment as U.S. officials have added new charges. One of the new charges alleges that SBF leveraged $40 million to influence “one or more Chinese government officials.” Details of the Bribery Charges Against...

Huizhou, China, Enables Digital Yuan Tax Payments – Is CBDC Adoption Increasing?

28.3.2023
The city of Huizhou, in China’s Guangdong Province, has announced that businesses can now use the digital yuan – China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) – to make tax payments. Per HZ News, a construction firm named Huizhou Puli Curtain Wall Engineering recently became the first firm...

EU Money Laundering Law Won’t Prevent Crypto Payments, Lead Lawmaker Says

28.3.2023
The new legislation, which will be put to vote on Tuesday, is set to impose new restrictions on transactions from self-hosted wallets

EU Lawmakers to Vote on Limited Ban on Self-Hosted Crypto Payments

27.3.2023
Anti-money laundering plans have slightly liberalized but are set to bring NFT platforms into the regulatory fold

Today in Crypto: Ethereum Foundation Doubles Bug Bounty to $500K, Oasys Partners with SBI VC Trade, The Graph Integrates with Banxa, Tether's Excess Reserves to Increase by $700M in Q1 2023

24.3.2023
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Digital Euro Key for European Payment Autonomy, ECB President Lagarde Says

24.3.2023
The digital euro has an important role in preserving the payment autonomy of Europe, the head of the eurozone’s monetary authority emphasized. The new currency, which is still under development, is meant to be sovereign and safe, cheap and widely available, Christine Lagarde assured during...

Short Seller Hindenburg Research Targets Billionaire Jack Dorsey's Payments Group, Block – What's Going On?

24.3.2023
Shares of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm Block fell 15% on Thursday after the company was targeted by professional short sellers. The fall in Block’s share price came as short selling firm Hindenburg Research announced that they had taken a short position in Block, Inc., a company...

How Crypto Ended Up at the Center of a Potential $20 Billion Internal Corruption Scandal in Venezuela — Bitcoin Mining Shutdown Results

24.3.2023
The establishment of sanctions by the Trump administration towards PDVSA, the state oil company in Venezuela, reportedly forced the hand of the government in the country to find alternative means of payment for crude oil. According to reports, more than $3 billion are missing from these payments...

Hindenburg Research reports Block short position, claiming fraud facilitation and inflated metrics

23.3.2023
"Block has wildly overstated its genuine user counts and has understated its customer acquisition costs," said the report

Today in Crypto: Bitpanda Partners with Visa, Near Joins Hands with WEMADE, Ethereum-based Decentralized RPC Goes Live

23.3.2023
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US Central Bank’s Fednow Payment Service to Launch in July, Economist Calls Timing ‘Suspicious’

22.3.2023
According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the central bank’s Fednow payment service will start operating in July, and participants will be certified in April to leverage the Fednow Pilot Program. Ken Montgomery, the Fednow program executive, is urging American financial institutions to make...

Today in Crypto: Coinbase Halts Support for Signature Bank’s Signet, MetaMask & MoonPay Expand Partnership in Nigeria, India to Hit 156M Crypto Users This Year, Xapo Bank Integrates USDC Payment Rails

21.3.2023
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Coinbase pauses support for Signature Bank's Signet: Report

20.3.2023
The U.S. crypto exchange was reportedly looking for another payment network provider and waiting on the outcome of the situation with Signature

Blockchain to Become More Relevant in Payments This Year, Sberbank Exec Says

20.3.2023
Blockchain technology can help solve current issues with settlements, according to the deputy chief executive of Sberbank. Russia’s largest bank is working with other financial institutions to develop blockchain-based payment applications, the banker revealed. Sberbank Sees Solution to Russia’s...

Bitcoin and Stablecoins Will Bring Crypto Mass Adoption to Africa, Experts Say

20.3.2023
The sentiment permeated talks and fireside chats at the 2023 Blockchain Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa

Australian Banking Association’s cost of living inquiry reveals bank pressure

20.3.2023
An analysis of the rising inflation and concurrent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank proved that more than 186 banks in the U.S. are at risk of a similar shutdown if depositors decide to withdraw all funds

FTX Debtors Reveal $6.8 Billion Hole in Balance Sheet Amidst Financial Discrepancies and Payments to Insiders

18.3.2023
According to a presentation recently submitted by the FTX debtors on March 16, Sam Bankman-Fried’s companies had a $6.8 billion hole in their intercompany balance sheet when they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. FTX and its conglomerate of firms have debts of around $11.6 billion...