New York Finance Watchdog ‘Fiercely Opposes’ Sandboxes for Fintech Firms

Oct 5, 2020 at 17:42 UTCUpdated Oct 5, 2020 at 20:42 UTCSenate Banking Committee member Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said Monday that he intends to take up digital currency regulation and payments system reform if he becomes the committee’s next chairman.“There’s very exciting things happening in technology, fintech, payment systems, the possibility of  a digital currency…

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) reaffirmed its view that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) generally do not fall under the definition of virtual assets and will not be regulated as such, according to a report from the Korea Herald.“According to the basic position expressed by the International Anti-Money Laundering Organization (FATF), NFTs are not regulated,” the…

Dec 7, 2020 at 3:53 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 7, 2020 at 4:37 p.m. UTC(Denis Linine/Shutterstock)SIX Stock Exchange Joins Venture Opening Up Digital Assets to Swiss BanksSwiss stock exchange SIX has invested in Custodigit, an institutional-grade cryptocurrency custody firm founded by Swisscom and Sygnum in 2018.Announced Monday, the investment forms part of an agreement for a…

Some of the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed juror questions could bias either miss juror biases or prejudice potential jurors into thinking Sam Bankman-Fried was guilty before the trial begins, the FTX founder's defense team charged in a late Friday filing."As a general matter, the Government’s proposed voir dire discourages full disclosure from potential jurors

NEWS Sep 26, 2018 at 10:00 UTC Blockchain startup Bitwala has raised €4 million in new funding that will help develop a planned blockchain bank account offering. VC firms Earlybird and Coparion took part in the round, according to a September 25 blog post from the Germany-based payments company. The funding will be used to continue development of its…

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He…

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news Nearly 2.7 trillion won ($2.3 billion) have been lost to crimes involving cryptocurrency in the last two years, according to South Korean government data. Figures provided by the country’s justice ministry on Sunday indicate that losses from crypto scams, Ponzi schemes, embezzlement and illegal exchange transactions came to 2.69 trillion won from July 2017 to…

Telegram has put out its first app since its ICO, but that identity play has security researchers reeling.