Switzerland’s financial authority issued new guidance last week, reaffirming its anti-money laundering (AML) rules. The authority also issued […]
Month: August 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled with the founders of Bitqyck Inc. after it accused them […]
China’s digital currency, which was reported to be launching as early as November 11 earlier this week, may […]
The French police have taken down a global malware network that infected over 850,000 systems, mostly based in […]
Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed and dubious inventor of Bitcoin, has been ordered by a U.S. court to hand […]
In early August, an official from the People’s Bank of China announced that they were close to launching […]
Messaging app Telegram is planning to launch its Gram tokens on October 31. According to a New York […]
U.S. district courts have sentenced five drug dealers, who used cryptocurrencies to evade authorities and conduct illegal transactions, […]
Even as U.S. lawmakers remain unconvinced about the merits of its crypto-and-blockchain venture, Facebook is ramping up its […]
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance has started a crypto lending program with teaser rates of between 7% […]
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, wants to replace the dollar’s dominant role in the global […]
A Los Angeles – based 25-year-old man, who ran a bitcoin exchange service, has pleaded guilty to owning […]
The Federal Trade Commission has settled with four promoters accused of running fraudulent crypto schemes. Three of the […]
Traki, the largest department store operator in Venezuela has said that it will install crypto-cash registers at 49 […]
During a June earnings report, Facebook had cautioned that its blockchain and cryptocurrency Libra may not launch due […]
Rwanda’s central bank is investigating the possibility of issuing a digital currency to boost economic growth. A Bloomberg […]
Tether is planning to launch a stablecoin pegged to offshore Chinese yuan. According to a Coindesk report, the […]
The White House issued advisories on illegal drug purchases in the US yesterday, specifically addressing the use of […]
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), acting under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Act, has sanctioned three Chinese […]
Facebook’s Libra project, already under fire from regulators around the world, is being probed by the European Union. […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) arrived late to the cryptocurrency party. But it is making up for lost […]