Category: Regulation

CFTC fine
March 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Coinbase to pay $6.5 million settlement ordered by CFTC

Reporting firms, including Crypto Facilities Ltd and CoinMarketCap OpCo, LLC, gained access to Coinbase’s transactional information through its Application Programming Interface. At the same time, the NYSE Bitcoin Index received it directly in transmissions from Coinbase. The order found that this may have resulted in a misleading, inaccurate, or false perceived volume and liquidity level…

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Jacobi Asset Management lists Europe’s first spot Bitcoin ETF
January 06, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MAS strengthens regulation of crypto exchanges

The new amendments also allow MAS to impose measures on DPT service providers to ensure better consumer protection and to maintain financial stability and safeguard the efficacy of monetary policy. MAS stated: We have seen recent development of new forms of DPTs which values are pegged to stable assets to gain users’ confidence. It is…

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FCA regulation
December 16, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

The FCA sets up a temporary registration regime for crypto firms

The Temporary Registration Regime is intended for existing cryptoasset businesses which have applied for registration before 16 December 2020, and whose applications are still being assessed. The regime is meant to enable those existing businesses to continue to trade after 9 January 2021 until 9 July 2021, pending the FCA’s determination of their application. The…

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ASIC
November 17, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASIC brings charges to former BitConnect promoter John Bigatton

ASIC alleges that Bigatton served as a Australian National Representative of an online cryptocurrency platform BitConnect and cryptocurrency investment scheme BitConnect Lending Platform between 14 August 2017 and 18 January 2018. ASIC claims Bigatton operated an unregistered managed investment scheme known as the BitConnect Lending Platform in Australia and that he provided unlicensed financial advice…

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FCA bans sale of crypto-derivatives to retail consumers
October 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA bans crypto derivatives sale to retail consumers

The FCA said: Unregulated transferable cryptoassets are tokens that are not ‘specified investments’ or e-money, and can be traded, which includes well-known tokens such as Bitcoin, Ether or Ripple. Specified investments are types of investment which are specified in legislation. Firms that carry out particular types of regulated activity in relation to those investments must…

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SFC approves first crypto licence
August 24, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC approves first crypto exchange licence

BC Group CEO Hugh Madden commented about the benefits of being licenced and that regulated institutions could reduce their risk by being able to engage with other regulated entities. Final approval is subject to certain conditions, however no other details have yet been shared. Madden said that these were: as you’d expect from a conservative…

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WFE started developing common taxonomy on stablecoins
July 22, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

WFE calls for common regulatory classification of stablecoins

WFE has expressed its belief that regulators should cooperate to share information on global stablecoing and crypto-assets and issues on the trading platforms. To address customer protection and market integrity, a formalised co-ordinated approaches to enforcement and oversight in general need to be developed. Nandini Sukumar, Chief Executive Officer of the WFE said: We support…

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SEC acts against 11 firms neglecting electronic communications
June 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Telegram agrees to pay over $1.2 billion in settlement over its digital token Grams

Lara Shalov Mehraban, Associate Regional Director of the New York Regional Office commented: Our emergency action protected retail investors from Telegram's attempt to flood the markets with securities sold in an unregistered offering without providing full disclosures concerning their project. The remedies we obtained provide significant relief to investors and protect retail investors from future…

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cryptocurrency
April 30, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

New common standards for crypto custody and management issued in Switzerland

Fedor Poskriakov commented: This will greatly contribute to the emergence of fully digital capital market infrastructures, including integrated custody and secondary trading venues. The benefits of the digitalization of the financial industry are such that the evolution towards decentralized infrastructures seems inevitable. The CMTA highlighted that storage of digital assets is significantly different from traditional…

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