UK High Court Rules to Set Aside Interim Proprietary Injunction Against Binance – Regulation Bitcoin News
A high court in the United Kingdom recently set aside a proprietary injunction that was issued against the crypto exchange...
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Kenya proposes 3% tax on cryptocurrency transfers
Kenya’s Treasury Secretary outlined the tax proposals in a document sent to parliament on 4 May, 2023. The 3% crypto...
Montana governor signs pro-cryptocurrency mining bill into law
Greg Gianforte, the governor of Montana, has signed into law a bill largely preventing local governments in the state from...
Robinhood returns to court to defend position in case brought by US state regulator
Lawyers representing cryptocurrency and stock trading app Robinhood faced off against those for the Office of the Secretary of the...
US Court Orders Operator of South African Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme to Pay Over $3.4 Billion – Regulation Bitcoin News
Johann Steynberg, the founder and CEO of Mirror Trading International, has been ordered to pay over $1.73 billion in restitution...
Industry heavyweights respond to UK’s crypto asset regulatory framework proposal
The deadline has come for comments on a consultation paper and call for evidence released by the United Kingdom’s HM...
First Republic’s crisis is not an isolated incident: JPMorgan exec
An executive at J.P. Morgan Asset Management is unsure how United States regional banks are “going to operate” when the...
Brazil Bans Telegram Temporarily Due to Alleged Lack of Collaboration in Fight Against School Violence – Regulation Bitcoin News
A federal judge in Brazil has ordered the temporary suspension of Telegram in the country and established hefty fines due...
Fed, NYDFS assess their supervisory performance after March’s big bank failures
Bank regulators in the United States have turned from introspection to confession after the high-profile bank failures in March. The...
UK opens consultation on taxation of DeFi transactions
UK’s HM Treasury has outlined tax policy changes targeted at DeFi lending and staking. The proposals are part of a...
Crypto Has Evolved From Being Seen as an ‘Anti-Establishment Rebellion Asset’ Says FCA Executive Director – Regulation Bitcoin News
From being seen as a small “anti-establishment rebellion asset” more than ten years ago, crypto has grown to “become more...
Russia Launching Payment System With ‘No Restrictions’ — Digital Currencies to Be Completely Unrestricted – Regulation Bitcoin News
Russia is launching a new payment system that is “bound by no restrictions” where digital currencies could be used in...
US Revenue Collector IRS to Send Four Crypto Crime Investigation Agents Abroad – Bitcoin News
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is planning to send investigators to four countries where they are expected to tackle the...
Ukraine to Adopt Europe’s Crypto Rules, Clarifies Taxation – Regulation Bitcoin News
Officials have revealed that Ukraine intends to implement the crypto market rules approved by the European Parliament. While the government...
Korean Central Bank to Gain Right to Probe Virtual Asset Entities After Financial Regulator Drops Opposition – Regulation Bitcoin News
The South Korean central bank is set to be granted the right to investigate virtual assets after the Financial Services...
EU Parliament Greenlights Markets in Crypto Assets Law, Tracing Rules – Regulation Bitcoin News
Members of the European Parliament gave their final approval to a package of EU-wide regulations for crypto assets. The legislators...
Ether’s Security Status Remains Unclear as SEC Chair Gensler Fails to Answer Lawmaker’s Question – Regulation Bitcoin News
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, would not answer a direct question in a...
US Lawmaker Introducing Legislation to Remove SEC Chairman Due to ‘Long Series of Abuses’ – Regulation Bitcoin News
A U.S. lawmaker has announced that he is introducing legislation to remove the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman in...
Canadian Police Launch Cryptocurrency Investigations Center – Regulation Bitcoin News
The police service of the Canadian city of Calgary is launching a Cryptocurrency Investigations Centre in partnership with blockchain analytics...
Bittrex Receives Wells Notice From SEC for Alleged Investor-Protection Law Violations – Regulation Bitcoin News
According to a recent report, the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex received a Wells notice from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
G20 Finance Chiefs Agree Global Policy Responses to Crypto Are Required – Regulation Bitcoin News
The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors have agreed that crypto regulation cannot be confined to one part of...
Fight between crypto and governments “just getting started”, says ShapeShift CEO
Despite the unprecedented regulatory pressure that crypto has been facing recently in the United States, the fight between the American...
