Serhii Mokhniev, CAMS, is a regulatory affairs counsel at CEX.IO, a London-based bitcoin exchange. In a few weeks, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is expected to adopt a proposal…
Continue ReadingCrypto Assets Delisted En-Masse on US Exchanges As Bitcoin (BTC) has returned, regulatory pressure on crypto assets and their respective industries have begun to rapidly mount. We may be just…
Continue ReadingThe SEC has filed a complaint against Kik, claiming the company’s initial coin offering was a breach of federal securities law. We brought in three outspoken lawyers to discuss the…
Continue ReadingBy CCN Markets: Facebook has just hired a senior UK bank lobbyist ahead of GlobalCoin launch to help the company cope with European regulations. According to the Financial Times, Facebook…
Continue ReadingU.S. self-regulatory organization, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), has fined and suspended an investment adviser over undeclared cryptocurrency mining activities. According to a letter of acceptance, waiver and consent published…
Continue ReadingThe chief of the Philippines central bank has warned over the risks of growing cryptocurrency use in the country. On Monday, The Philippine Star quoted Benjamin Diokno, governor of the Bangko…
Continue ReadingDear readers, Let’s get straight to it. Google’s June 2019 Core Update rolled out on June 3th 2019 and CCN’s traffic from Google searches dropped more than 71% on mobile…
Continue ReadingBy CCN Markets: Global finance ministers and central bankers reconfirmed their multilateral support of crypto-industry regulations on the weekend in Japan. They were attending the G20 Finance Summit ahead of…
Continue ReadingThe G20 group of nations has reaffirmed it will align with standards for anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the funding of terrorism (CTF) set to be finalized by the Financial…
Continue ReadingYesterday, the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto asset community woke up to a harrowing tidbit of news from Bloomberg Quint. An article, which cited a “draft bill”, revealed that regulators in…
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