Cointelegraph By Derek Andersen
Architect Financial Technologies, the startup founded by former FTX US president Brett Harrison, will provide derivatives brokerage services following its Architect Financial Derivatives subsidiary receiving approval from the National Futures Association (NFA) to operate as an independent introducing broker. The company is eyeing both the cryptocurrency derivatives market...
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) has published an assessment of the European Commission’s proposed legislation on the digital euro. It gave the bill middling marks.The IIF is a financial industry global advocacy group headquartered in Washington, D.C. with members in 60 countries. It rated the digital euro...
Cryptocurrency miners have a new voice in Washington with the launch of the Digital Power Network (DPN), a new coalition affiliated with the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The network is off to a promising start, with many of the United States’ biggest miners on board.The DPN is the...
After a judge declined to give the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unfettered access to Binance.US software at a hearing on Sept. 18, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) took to X (formerly Twitter) to make a statement about one point of contention with the SEC.“For the...
On Sept. 15, the United States government responded to questions the defense has suggested posing to potential jurors during their selection for the case against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. He faces seven charges of fraud and money laundering in connection with the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange...
The documents filed Aug. 28 may be seen by the public in a week. They are not all the sealed documents in the case, however.
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Two more top executives are leaving Binance.US, one day after the departure of CEO Brian Shroder and the layoff of a third of its staff, The Wall Street Journal reported. Binance.US is the United States offshoot of the international cryptocurrency exchange. Head of legal Krishna Juvvadi and chief...
The Delaware bankruptcy court has approved the sale of FTX digital assets. Judge John Dorsey made the ruling at a hearing on Sept. 13. Major changes were made to the order authorizing the sale on the previous day.FTX will be allowed to sell digital assets excluding Bitcoin (BTC),...
The Bank for International Settlements and the central banks of Hong Kong and Israel released the results of Project Sela on Sept. 12. The project was a public-private partnership that used private intermediaries to create a retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) combining the desirable characteristics of cash...
Democratic legislators from both houses of the United States Congress have sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Energy Department (DOE) to inform them of their findings on the energy consumption of cryptocurrency mining and asking the agencies to require mining to report their emissions...
