Tag: CFTC
Coinbase warns customers about subpoena in apparent CFTC Bybit probe
Coinbase is warning that it has received a subpoena from the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), according to X (formerly Twitt [...]
Binance, Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao to Pay $2.85B Fine in CFTC Settlement
Crypto exchange Binance and its founder, Changpeng "CZ" Zhao will pay nearly $3 billion in fines to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settli [...]
Sushi to test Bitcoin swaps and Opyn DeFi protocol founders cave to CFTC pressure: Finance Redefined
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CFTC Gets $12 Million Freeze in Alleged Forex Trading Fraud Case
Forex trading platform Traders Global Group Inc. will have more than $12 million of its corporate assets remain frozen pending a trial over fraud alle [...]
CFTC Chief: Nothing Changed After FTX Meltdown to Empower Agency to Prevent Repeat
U.S. regulators don't have any more authority now to head off another major crypto collapse than they did when FTX imploded and took much of the indus [...]
Opyn DeFi protocol founders are leaving crypto after CFTC crackdown
Zubin Koticha and Alexis Gauba, two founders of the Opyn decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, are stepping down from the project and “leaving crypto [...]
‘Premier’ crypto cop CFTC reveals record-setting digital asset enforcement in 2023
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has unveiled its enforcement outcomes for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023. It highlights a historic surge in dig [...]
Crypto’s Bromance With U.S. CFTC May Be One-Sided, Enforcement Record Shows
In recent years, Behnam's agency has routinely been held up in crypto circles as the preferred U.S. regulator. Industry insiders have suggested its ha [...]
LedgerX highlights CFTC regulatory gap in customer asset rules
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has focused its attention on how companies handle customer assets. Nevertheless, this fresh regul [...]
Ex-FTX Unit LedgerX in Gray Area Beyond U.S. CFTC Proposal on Customer Funds: Commissioner
Friday's proposal, which details how regulated firms must only put customer assets into an expanded list of the most liquid of investments, doesn't co [...]
Prediction Market Kalshi Sues U.S. CFTC for Denying Its Contracts for Congressional Elections
When the CFTC denied the application earlier this year, Commissioner Summer Mersinger dissented, arguing, "It is important for the commission to make [...]
U.S. CFTC Has Awarded $16M to Whistleblowers This Year; Most Were Crypto-Related Tips
"The majority of the tips received this year involved crypto – an area that continues to have pervasive fraud and other illegality," Romero said in a [...]
CFTC pays whistleblowers $16M this year for mostly crypto tips
The United States commodities regulator has paid $16 million this year to whistleblowers who gave information leading to successful enforcement action [...]
Binance and CZ renew calls to dismiss CFTC lawsuit
Lawyers representing Binance and CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao have filed statements in support of a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the United States [...]
Binance Again Seeks to Nix ‘Incendiary’ CFTC Lawsuit
“U.S. law governs domestically but does not control the world. Congress did not make the CFTC the world’s derivatives police,” Binance’s filing said, [...]