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CFTC fines crypto exchange Kraken $1.25 million for offering some products illegally
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday ordered crypto exchange Kraken to pay $1…
Camomile Shumba
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The CFTC chief said his agency should oversee crypto in a challenge to SEC's Gensler
The statement form the acting CFTC chairman is at odds with SEC chief Gary Gensler, who has said cr…
Isabelle Lee
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The SEC does not have the regulatory experience to govern crypto, says CFTC commissioner
"The SEC has no authority over pure commodities or their trading venues whether those commodities a…
Isabelle Lee
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The CFTC just gave $200 million to a whistleblower in its biggest-ever award to a single individual
The whistleblower's information led to monetary sanctions of at least $670 million and up to $2 bil…
Matthew Fox
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The CFTC just charged a bitcoin firm with operating the 'largest ever fraud' involving the cryptocurrency
Mirror Trading International offered investors returns as high as 10% a month through a trading "bo…
Jennifer Sor
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Polymarket platform for placing crypto bets on COVID, Bennifer 2.0, and Trump's return is under investigation by the CFTC, report says
The CFTC is investigating whether Polymarket allows its customers to improperly trade swaps or bina…
Camomile Shumba
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Coinbase to pay $6.5 million to settle CFTC trading probe
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) which regulates the US derivatives markets has orde…
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CFTC says access to US customers 'is a privilege, not a right,' in aggressive case against Binance that is only just getting started
CFTC Commissioner says there are "no pirate ships" in US markets.
Laila Maidan
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Tether slapped with $41 million fine for 'untrue or misleading statements' on fiat currency backing
The CFTC discovered Tether only held sufficient fiat reserves to back its USDT stablecoin for only …
Isabelle Lee
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Prosecutors say Binance execs cracked jokes when warned terrorists could be moving money on their platform: 'Can barely buy an AK-47 with 600 bucks'
"We see the bad, but we close two eyes," wrote one Binance compliance employee in an internal chat,…
Matthew Loh
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A federal court has ordered a man to pay more than $571 million in fines for operating a 'fraudulent bitcoin trading scheme'
A US commodities regulator says a UK man had been ordered to pay more than $571 million for an appa…
Kevin Shalvey
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REPORT: The CFTC Is Considering Regulating Bitcoin
Bitcoin has seen a surge in prices over the past month and a half as some Europeans began looking f…
Rob Wile
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Read the CFTC complaint against FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried and his associates Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said FTX execs gave exemptions to Alameda that let it "sec…
Grace Dean
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A top US regulator said he Googled DeFi and thinks much of it is illegal
The CFTC's Dan Berkovitz said he thinks much of decentralized finance, or DeFi, is a bad idea, in a…
Harry Robertson
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MF Global Ordered To Pay Out $1.2 Billion To Customers
The CFTC's Complaint charged MF Global, a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), with violat…
Linette Lopez
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CFTC sues Binance and cofounder Changpeng Zhao for allegedly violating trading rules
The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is accused of violating the Commodity Exchange Act.
Filip De Mott
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Gary Gensler says most cryptos are securities, but some are more like gold — so the SEC and the CFTC should team up to regulate exchanges
Gary Gensler called for greater cooperation between Washington's main financial regulators when it …
Adam Morgan McCarthy
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A former CFTC commissioner will lead policy and regulatory strategy for FTX US, as crypto industry continues to hire former watchdogs
Mark Wetjen served for four years as a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Carla Mozée
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Bitcoin and Ether are down 3% after CFTC sued Binance and its CEO over US regulatory violations
Binance breached eight provisions of the Commodity Exchange Act, the US regulator said in a complai…
Huileng Tan
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A bill that would create a joint SEC-CFTC crypto task force has been passed in the House and will head to the Senate
The Eliminate Barriers to Innovation Act of 2021 is headed to the US Senate after passing in the Ho…