Global
Global: Dutch central bank fines Coinbase €3.3m
Coinbase has been fined €3.33 million for providing crypto services in the Netherlands without securing registration with the country’s central bank. Cryptocurrency firms ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Interswitch Secures CBN’s Payment Service Holding Company License
Interswitch Group one of Africa’s leading financial technology and integrated payments solution providers has announced receipt of a Payments Service Holding Company (PSHC) ...
Global
Global: US securities regulator probes Wall Street over crypto custody: Report
The regulator has been probing registered investment advisors over how they’ve been offering crypto custody to their clients, according to sources. The United ...
Global
Global: Corlytics acquires ING RegTech platform SparQ
Corlytics has acquired SparQ, a regulatory monitoring platform spun out of ING, in a €5 million aggregate deal. Developed jointly by ING’s compliance ...
Nigeria
Nigeria: Mafab Communications beats NCC deadline, begins 5G rollout
Mafab Communications, the second company issued a 5G license by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has beaten the telecom regulator’s deadline as it ...
Global
Global: U.S. securities regulator (SEC) awards whistleblowers more than $28 million
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday (January 24, 2023) said it has awarded a whistleblower payout of more than $28 ...
CAR
CAR: Central African Republic Forms a Committee to Draft Crypto Bill
The Central African Republic has formed a committee of experts from several government ministries to draft crypto legislation, President Faustin-Archange Touadera said in ...
Global
Global: HSBC warned by the CMA over inaccurate Open Banking information
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued an official warning to HSBC for failures to provide correct information over its Open ...
Kenya
Kenya: Data chief seeks system to secure private details
The Data Protection Commissioner is seeking to rein in companies that are breaching the privacy of their users’ personal data as the office ...
Global
Global: The EU sets its sights on game regulation
EU regulation of game business practices is getting underway in earnest – but the industry still has time to get its own house ...