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David Attlee5 hours agoRegulators around the globe assert more control over crypto: Law DecodedFrom Hong Kong to Europe and the United States, regulators are pushing for more oversight and control over digital assets.5047 Total views7 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsletterJoin us on social networksIn the last week, several major financial regulators, both national and international, simultaneously produced new guidelines for decentralized assets. The European Banking Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority proposed guidelines for assessing the suitability of management members in crypto firms, offering standardized criteria for evaluating their knowledge, expertise, integrity and ability to dedicate adequate time to fulfill their responsibilities.


The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) proposed to oblige banks to provide both quantitative and qualitative data on exposures to crypto assets and the corresponding capital and liquidity requirements. According to the BIS, using a uniform disclosure format will encourage the application of market discipline and lessen information asymmetry between banks and market participants.


The United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network proposed designating cryptocurrency mixing as an area of “primary money laundering concern” following Hamas’ attack on Israel. It suggests requiring domestic financial institutions and agencies to “implement certain recordkeeping and reporting requirements” for crypto mixers transactions.


The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will make certain digital currency products available only to professional investors. The updated requirements consider digital assets “complex products” under the SFC and subject to the same guidelines as similar financial products. The commission mentions crypto exchange-traded funds and products issued outside Hong Kong as complex products.FTX court updates 


FTX’s former general counsel Can Sun was unaware of the exchange’s comingling of funds with Alameda Research, he told jurors during his testimony in Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial. Sun said he learned from other employees about Alameda’s exemption from the liquidation engine system in August 2022. Typically, the system would liquidate loss-making trades, but Alameda reportedly bypassed the mechanism due to its exception.


Accounting professor Peter Easton provided a breakdown of the alleged commingling of funds between FTX and Alameda Research since 2021. According to Easton’s analysis, Alameda invested in Genesis Capital, K5 Global Holdings, Anthropic PBC, Dave Inc, Modulo Capital and other ventures, partially using funds from FTX customers. In June 2022, Alameda had a negative balance of $11.3 billion with FTX, while the companies’ liquid assets stood at $2.3 billion, meaning a gap of $9 billion between the sister firms. Another critical point from the analysis: Alameda has 57 accounts with FTX that could have negative balances, whereas no other customer could do so. The analysis challenges Bankman-Fried’s defense argument that Alameda had similar privileges as other market makers on FTX.


Continue readingPennsylvania aborts two-year mining moratorium bill 


A Pennsylvania House Representative has cut a two-year crypto mining ban from a bill to regulate the sector’s energy consumption, claiming trade labor unions pressured the change. The committee’s chair and the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Representative Greg Vitali, revealed that Democratic Party leaders pressured him not to run the bill inclusive of the moratorium. Vitali said building trade labor unions had “chronic opposition” to environmental policy and claimed the unions had his Democratic colleagues in their pocket. According to the politician, voting against the unions would risk the Democratic majority in Pennsylvania’s House, and he would rather see the bill pass sans moratorium than not at all.


Continue readingGemini, Genesis, DCG accused of $1 billion fraud


New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency firms Gemini, Genesis and Digital Currency Group (DCG) for allegedly defrauding investors through the Gemini Earn investment program. An official statement from the office of Attorney General Letitia James outlines the basis of the charges, claiming that the companies defrauded more than 23,000 investors, including 29,000 New York citizens, of more than $1 billion. An investigation carried out by James’ office claims that Gemini lied to investors about its Gemini Earn investment program, which it ran in partnership with Genesis. It argues that while Gemini had assured investors that the program was a low-risk investment, investigations reveal that Genesis’ financials “were risky.”


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