Tag Archives: CFTC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving securities enforcement up to the CFTC when it comes to cryptocurrency. While the commission rushes ahead of Congress to write the entire federal crypto policy by lawsuit, the CFTC is going for more clear-cut violations. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission took the lead late last week and filed charges of securities fraud against a cryptocurrency business in Florida. It filed the charges in the U.S. District Court for...

CoinspeakerCoinbase Secures Regulatory Approval for US Crypto Futures Trading  With the approval, Coinbase has become the first native crypto company to provide both derivatives and spot trading services directly to customers.  Coinbase Secures Regulatory Approval for US Crypto Futures Trading 

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission said earlier this week that it had filed a complaint against four individuals and their unincorporated entity for operating a fraudulent project involving precious metals and digital assets. The alleged scam had over 14,000 customers at one point. The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida against Rene Larralde, Brian Early, Alisha Ann Kingrey, and Juan Pablo Valcarce. The group of four,...

CoinspeakerRevolut to Close US Crypto Services Due to Uncertain Regulatory Position From October 3, customers in the US will no longer be able to use Revolut to buy, sell, or hold any cryptocurrencies. Revolut to Close US Crypto Services Due to Uncertain Regulatory Position

A Tennessee couple was charged for operating a $6 million digital assets commodity pool scheme by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) this week. The United States derivatives market regulator charged the owners of a Clarksville real estate company, Michael and Amanda Griffis, for allegedly defrauding more than 100 people across the country. The couple was also accused of failing to register with the CFTC in connection with a multi-million dollar commodity pool...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made it very clear it doesn’t care if a crypto company is big or small. It will go after any digital currency enterprise with a persecuting hand, as it demonstrated yet again last month when it announced plans to sue Binance, the largest and most popular digital currency exchange in the world. The SEC and Binance Go Head to Head The news caused bitcoin and Ethereum to drop to their lowest points in just over two...

CoinspeakerNAB Blocks Payments to High-Risk Crypto Exchanges to Curb Scam Losses According to NAB executive for group investigations and fraud Chris Sheehan, they have observed many scammers using cryptocurrency platforms to launder stolen funds. NAB Blocks Payments to High-Risk Crypto Exchanges to Curb Scam Losses

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has warned that while it’s doing all it can to end crypto fraud, it admitted that there’s nothing it can do about all the illicit activity out there, and thus there’s likely to be things here and there that vanish from its radar or go unnoticed. The CFTC Doesn’t Have that Much Power Christy Goldsmith Romero – one of five commissioners at the CFTC – announced in a recent interview that crypto cases account for roughly...

Binance – the largest and most popular digital currency exchange – is in hot water again after former insiders alleged that the exchange combined funds from customers with those of the company. What Did Binance Do? In what could be argued as taking a page out of the FTX playbook, Binance is accused of not keeping customer and company funds separate. This would be a breach of U.S. financial rules. Binance has denied any wrongdoing. One of the insiders claims that...

CoinspeakerCelsius Ex-CEO Risk to Face CFTC Lawsuit CFTC investigators claim that they have reasons to believe that the bankrupt lender and its former CEO violated the rules of the agency. Celsius Ex-CEO Risk to Face CFTC Lawsuit