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Leading crypto exchange Binance has recently increased its customer verification requirements amid mounting pressure from global financial regulators. All Binance Users Must Verify their Accounts In an official announcement on Friday, Binance said that all new users must complete “Intermediate Verification” procedures to gain access to services such as cryptocurrency deposits, trades, and withdrawals, with immediate effect. According to the exchange’s procedures, the...

Fortschreitende staatliche Regulierungen haben viele Funktionen auf Binance in zahlreichen Ländern eingeschränkt – auch in Deutschland. Nun versucht Binance offenbar den Finanzbehörden entgegenzukommen. Doch wird es reichen? Crypto News: Binance stellt ehemaligen Ermittler der Steuerbehörde einGreg Monahan ist ein ehemaliger Ermittler der US-Steuerbehörde IRS. Er wurde nun von Binance eingestellt, um gegen Geldwäsche und kriminelle Handlungen im Zusammenhang mit Cryptocoins auf Binance...

The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange has appointed Greg Monahan – a former US Treasury Criminal Investigator. Monahan will serve as Binance’s new Global Money Laundering Reporting Officer. The company announced its latest hiring in its attempts to comply with global watchdogs in a press release shared with CryptoPotato. It explained that Monahan has a 30-year of experience in credit government service, with a large part being as a US Treasury Criminal Investigator. He...

Vor ungefähr einem Monat stoppten Partnerbanken ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Binance. Unter anderem Barcleys, Santander und Clear Junction sorgten bisher dafür, dass Nutzer Euro und British Pounds auf die größte Cryptobörse der Welt einzuzahlen konnten. Über das SEPA-Verfahren wurde diese Möglichkeit komplett ausgesetzt – temporär, so heißt es allerdings immer noch auf Binance. Crypto News: Binance mit weiteren regulatorischen MaßnahmenBinance selbst trifft jedoch keine Schuld. Die Banken wurden...

A few hours ago, Brian Brooks announced his resignation as CEO of Binance US, a position that he assumed on May 1st of this year. On his personal Twitter account, Brooks did not elaborate much on the details, simply explaining that there were differences over the strategic direction of the exchange. Greetings #crypto community. Letting you all know that I have resigned as CEO of ⁦⁦⁦@BinanceUS⁩ . Despite differences over strategic direction, I wish my former colleagues much...

The world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange continues to tailor its product suite in a way that caters to customer protection regulations. In a recent announcement, the exchange revealed that users from Hong Kong “will not be able to open new derivatives products accounts,” with immediate effect. Moreover, “with effect from a date to be announced in a later notice,” remaining Hong Kong users will have a 90 days grace period to effectively close their currently opened...

Just a few days after filing a motion to receive access to “obtain international discovery” of records belonging to Binance, US Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn has approved Ripple’s request. The documents should shed some light on the company’s XRP sales made on the exchange. Through its legal team, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple, filed a motion in the Southern District of New York on Monday (August 2nd) to request documents relevant to the ongoing legal case against the...

The Ethereum blockchain is scheduled to undergo the London hard fork, and several exchanges are taking precautions to ensure users’ funds remain secured once the hard fork is successfully deployed.  At block height 12,965,000, estimated to take place tomorrow (August 8th, 2021), Ethereum was scheduled to undergo the hard fork, and two scenarios are likely to occur; either the chain is split, and there’s a competing network with a new token or no new token is created, and most...

Leading digital currency exchange Binance – arguably the biggest cryptocurrency trading platform in the world – is taking heavy action against unverified users. Binance Moves Towards Limiting Unverified Customers In a series of tweets, Changpeng Zhao – the company’s CEO – announced that Binance would be limiting how much money customers can remove or withdraw from their accounts daily, granted they have not gone through the verification process with the exchange. Zhao...

Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance has completed the integration of Polygon mainnet to support deposits and withdrawals of the mainnet token of the Ethereum-scaling network.  Binance Now Supports MATC Mainnet Token According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato on Friday, Binance users will now be able to make deposits and withdrawals with the MATIC mainnet token.  They will also be able to utilize several DeFi dApps such as SushiSwap, Aave, Curve, and Balancer,...