The US Senate just passed a bill overturning SEC guidelines that disincentivize banks and large financial institutions from holding Bitcoin and crypto assets. The legislation, which succeeded in the House last week, has now passed the Senate in a 60-38 vote and is headed to President Biden’s desk. The bill reverses an SEC accounting rule
The chief executive of Ripple Labs says that he sees the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) losing its battle against crypto in the long term. In a new interview on the World Class podcast, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says that in the grand scheme of things, the SEC’s anti-crypto stances and enforcement actions don’t
The crypto exchange Kraken is pushing back against claims made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In November, the SEC charged Kraken with operating its crypto trading platform as an unregistered securities exchange, broker, dealer and clearing agency. Earlier this year, Kraken filed in US District Court to dismiss those charges, and the company
U.S. regulators said an appeals court shouldn’t heed Coinbase’s request to review how – or if – conventional securities rules apply to cryptocurrencies. Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto exchange, filed for permission to ask the Second Circuit Court of Appeals if the Howey Test, a longstanding Supreme Court assessment for securities, should apply to digital
There might be as many opinions about crypto as there are cryptocurrency tokens. And with tens of thousands of digital assets populating the crypto market, that’s certainly a lot of opinions. That sheer scale of noise is in part why it can be so challenging to get a clear view of the Web3 landscape —
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler thinks American crypto investors aren’t receiving enough information about most digital assets. The SEC recently sent out a Wells Notice to Robinhood’s crypto arm, alerting the retail trading giant that it’s planning to pursue legal action against them. In a recent interview with CNBC, Gensler says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says that Ripple Lab’s planned new stablecoin qualifies as an “unregistered crypto asset.” In a new court filing, the regulatory agency says that not only has Ripple been selling XRP – the digital asset used to operate the XRP Ledger – as an unregistered security since 2013, but
Crypto goes up, and crypto goes down. Then, often, crypto goes back up. It can be a dizzying and volatile cycle. Just collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s customers, who, having once feared they’d lost their collective billions, can now take solace from the news Tuesday (May 7) that FTX’s bankruptcy team is ready to repay them
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin is issuing a warning about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), saying the regulator’s current policies on crypto will have a lasting effect on the industry. In a new interview with Wired, Lubin says that if ETH is declared a security by the SEC, people in the US won’t be
(Reuters) -Retail trading platform Robinhood Markets said on Monday it received an enforcement action notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 4 over crypto tokens traded on its platform. The company said it received a so-called “Wells notice,” which the SEC issues when it is planning to bring enforcement action against