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Global: FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees to Extradition to US
The FTX United States extradition situation has hit an unexpected snag. Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the one-time multibillionaire and disgraced FTX founder, appeared Monday morning ...
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Global: US Crypto Ban Proposal Tossed Around By Senate Banking Chair
The anti-crypto rhetoric has been ramping up in the United States. The latest lawmaker to deride the entire ecosystem is Senate banking chairman ...
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Global: Kazakhstan central bank recommends a phased CBDC rollout between 2023-25
Kazakhstan’s central bank recommended making the in-house CBDC available as early as 2023 with a phased expansion of functionality and introduction into commercial ...
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Global: Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash
Dropbox announced that it’s acquired FormSwift, a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized documents. Under ...
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Global: UK updates on new Open Banking entity
UK authorities have published an update on plans for a successor to the Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE). Following an order by the ...
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Silvergate Faces Lawsuit for ‘Aiding and Abetting’ FTX Fraud
Leading crypto bank Silvergate was slammed by a class-action lawsuit from investors who invested in the collapsed FTX. Joewy Gonzalez filed the Dec. ...
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Global: SEC Rejects Grayscale ETF as Hong Kong Debuts See Gains
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed its decision to reject Grayscale’s application for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The federal regulator reiterated that it ...
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Globa: PayPal partners with ConsenSys MetaMask to allow US users to buy Ethereum
Web 3.0 company ConsenSys revealed this week that US MetaMask users will be able to purchase Ethereum from within the app using PayPal. ...
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Global: Japan set to ease 30% crypto tax on paper profits for token issuers
As it stands, Japanese crypto issuers are required to pay a set 30% corporate tax rate on their holdings, even if they haven’t ...
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Global: Incoming UK FCA Chair Ashley Alder Hammers Crypto Industry
The incoming head of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a violent broadside against the wider crypto industry. Potentially setting the ...