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Traders are focused on key strikes in the options market as positioning turns defensive.
Recent shifts in rate cut odds have weighed on sentiment heading into Friday’s remarks from Fed…
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Japan’s Payment Services Act amendments, effective since 2023, created a licensing regime for issuing and distributing fiat-pegged stablecoins.
SBI VC Trade, the first firm licensed as an Electronic Payment Instruments…
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ASIC has removed more than 14,000 scam and phishing websites in two years, with crypto scams making up about 20%.
The regulator will now target fraudulent ads on social media…
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An investor lost 783 Bitcoin—$91 million worth a the time—to a social engineering scam, according to on-chain sleuth ZachXBT.
The threat actor allegedly used a coin-mixing service to try to…
The US House has added a provision banning the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) into a nearly 1,300-page bill setting the country’s defence policy for…
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The OCC terminated its consent order on digital assets bank Anchorage Digital.
The regulator brought the order in 2022 after granting conditional approval to Anchorage in 2021.
Federally chartered…
The US commodities regulator has launched its second “crypto sprint” to implement recommendations from the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, this time focusing on stakeholder engagement.The Commodity…
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Acting chair Caroline Pham said Thursday the sprint expands to custody, leveraged retail trading, and consumer protections, with feedback due October 20.
The initiative is part of a four-phase process…
Australia’s markets regulator is set to expand its crackdown on online scams after taking down 14,000 online scams since July 2023, with over 3,000 purporting to involve crypto. The online scams…
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Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman is warning AI may soon seem sentient, sparking confusion over rights, trust, and identity.
Belief in conscious AI could trigger mental health risks and distort human relationships.
He…