Biden's likely pick to helm the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is an expert in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology and favors more expansive regulations to police the industry Greater regulation could…
News of Gary Gensler, former Commodity Futures Trading Commision Chairman during the Obama administration, nomination to lead the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have set the crypto community abuzz…
One of the key driving forces behind the past year of crypto-friendly laws emerging from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is Brian Brooks, who has been…
Crypto custodian and firm Anchorage has made history this week by being the first company in the US crypto industry to obtain a conditional national bank charter from the Office…
Despite banking institutions, representatives and Congress warning the new and incoming Biden administration against supporting the crypto-friendly decisions that the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) has announced in…
US financial regulators and institutions have been trying to provide more stringent regulations to oversee the crypto industry, particularly to combat the privacy guarantees that transacting in digital assets offer,…
It’s the first day of the year, and as countries all over the world move past the last vestiges of 2020 into 2021, here is a brief recap of the…
Discussions on creating global standards for regulations surrounding the cryptocurrency industry by world leaders have been on the table for some time now and the topic has so far received…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has granted licences to four different companies which will allow them to operate as virtual, digital banks in Singapore, according to the Straits Times.…
Coinbase was recently picked up as a cornerstone partner by the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, or COPA, headed by finance company Square. In September, Square unveiled the community as…