Tag Archives: Exchange News

Coinbase just can’t seem to catch a break. Not long ago, the company was the subject of a lawsuit that’s now being examined by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the trading platform is also the receiver of a Wells notice sent by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), proving once again that the agency has just become a complete bully to all digital currency firms. Will the SEC Go After Coinbase? To be clear, Coinbase has not been charged with anything at the time of...

A crypto-centered lawsuit with popular digital currency exchange Coinbase as the defendant is heading to the Supreme Court. This marks the first time such a high-ranking court in the U.S. has ever considered such a case. The Supreme Court Is Examining a Coinbase Suit The plaintiff is a man who was, at one point, a customer of Coinbase. It’s alleged the man gave a scammer (who was pretending to be a representative of PayPal) remote access to his Coinbase account. This...

NatWest – a retail and commercial bank – is limiting how much money its customers can transfer to digital currency exchanges as a means of preventing fraud. NatWest Is Halting Major Crypto Activity Customers of NatWest will no longer be able to transfer more than 1,000 pounds to crypto exchanges. They also cannot exceed 5,000 pounds per month. The bank put out a statement claiming there are too many “crypto criminals” out there, and it doesn’t want its customers taking...

Open banking firm Tarabut Gateway is joining hands with Bahrain-based crypto exchange Rain to ensure customers can add digital currencies to their wallets for less money and in half the time. Rain and Tarabut Will Work to Ensure Things Move Faster Transactions are set to be sped up tenfold through the partnership. Customers can also top up on their wallets without having to leave the Rain platform. In addition, errors from traditional bank wire transfers are slated to...

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange – is converting more than $1 billion of its stable currency BUSD (Binance USD) into bitcoin, Ethereum, and various other digital assets. Binance Is Converting a Lot of Its Stable Asset The news came about in a tweet issued by the company’s CEO Changpeng Zhao, who stated: Given the changes in stablecoins and banks, Binance will convert the remaining of the one billion Industry Recovery Initiative...

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular crypto exchange – is unveiling a new prepaid crypto-based credit card to be utilized by consumers in regions like Colombia. The New Binance Card Will Be for Latin American Use The South American nation has become one of the biggest adopters of bitcoin and other digital currencies in recent years. It is the third most active member of Latin America when it comes to crypto trading and related activities. Number one is...

New York attorney general Leticia James is suing another digital currency company. This time, the victim is Ku Coin, whom James said failed to register as a security and commodities broker-dealer and is falsely representing itself as a crypto exchange. Ku Coin Is the Victim of a New York Lawsuit On one hand, there are many shady crypto companies out there that have sought to take advantage of customers and those who do business with them. FTX is proof of this, and it’s a...

FTX was a devastating event to strike the crypto space, and now, regulators and people in charge of America’s financial sector are warning that something bad could potentially happen with Binance, which as we all know, had strict ties to FTX when the company fell into oblivion. Binance Could Be in Hot Water John Reed Stark – a former attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – has warned in a recent interview that Binance could possibly see a heavy...

Victims of the now defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox are set to get some of their money back in the coming weeks and months. Several creditors have set forth a plan to pay back at least some of the funds that were lost (or stolen) in the company’s collapse, but the news isn’t all good, as some analysts believe this could cause a heavy slump in the bitcoin price. Mt. Gox Victims Are Set to Get Repaid Mt. Gox was one of the biggest disasters of the crypto space. Occurring in...

Another executive that worked with the now defunct crypto exchange FTX has pleaded guilty to criminal charges. Nishad Singh – who worked as the former director of engineering at the exchange – has pleaded guilty to approximately six conspiracy charges, as well as conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to violate federal campaign finance laws. Another FTX Employee Has Been Taken Down Damian Williams – a US attorney for the...