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Coinbase received its license to operate in Bermuda on April 19th. The action was taken to keep up with the company’s campaign for “global scale to go broad and deep”. Coinbase plans to launch a coastal derivatives exchange in the next week, after it acquired a license to function in Bermuda from the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Coinbase applauded Bermuda as an excessively reputed and professional financial regulator in its announcement. Coinbase had long been looking to inaugurate an...

Senators in the U.S. say if Congress is going to get serious about establishing crypto regulations, they need to be bipartisan. This means both democrats and republicans need to agree on how the rules should play out and what they should accomplish. Congress Needs to Find Common Ground Over the last six years, one can easily say that both sides of the political spectrum have been at war with each other. It’s an ugly sight, in many ways. Both democrats and republicans are...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman – Gary Gensler – affirmed during testimony before the House Financial Services Committee that the agency will keep insisting that local crypto platforms abide by strict laws. Committee Chairman Rep. Patrick McHenry argued that the regulator’s aggressive approach could drive such firms away from the USA and hamper innovation.  Gensler also said he has never owned any digital assets, classifying them as “highly...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made a lot of enemies in the crypto and investment worlds over the past several years, with several digital asset companies claiming that the company has a ruleset all its own and that it has too much power and pleasure in prosecuting firms it believes go against its narrative. The SEC Is Going After All These Firms Among the people who feel this way about the SEC is the head of policy at venture capitalist Andreessen...

The news comes as crypto companies are looking outside the United States and China for regulatory clarity. Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received regulatory approval to operate in Ireland. The company successfully registered its Irish subsidiary Payward Europe Solutions Limited with the Central Bank of Ireland as a virtual asset service provider (VASP) on April 18. The VASP license allows the crypto exchange to legally operate in the country. 📣 We’re pleased to announce that Kraken...

Coinbase is on the brink of legal warfare with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to reach long-awaited clarity on how federal securities laws apply to the crypto industry, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.  Should the regulator situation not improve, the executive said the exchange would consider relocating away from the United States.  Will Coinbase Move Abroad? In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Armstrong called out “certain regulators” for taking a...

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler testified before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday regarding the agency’s enforcement actions against the crypto industry over the past few months.  The chair was pressed for answers on how exactly he differentiates between crypto securities and crypto commodities, and recent difficulties for crypto firms to access financial services.  Where is the Clarity? In his opening statement, committee chair...

The infamous co-founder of Terraform Labs has reportedly lost his bid against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The latter is now allowed to seek records from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) that could shed more details on how the 31-year-old developer managed Luna Foundation Guard and whether he had a hand in last year’s LUNA/UST collapse. Numerous agencies, watchdogs, and prosecutors alleged Kwon was the main culprit of the multi-billion crash. He...

In its Q1 2023 report, Swedish telecom giant Ericsson described India as a viable market that drove sales up fivefold.  Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) recently reported its Q1 2023 earnings which beat expectations and revealed a boost in quarterly profit. On Tuesday, the Swedish telecom giant first-quarter core earnings benefited from increased sales of 5G equipment in countries like India. Ericsson’s net sales grew 14% in the first three months of 2023, surpassing the consensus estimate of 60.43...

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler’s crusade against the crypto-asset industry has prompted political pushback. United States Representative Warren Davidson is the latest to retaliate. The Ohio Representative said he is introducing legislation to remove Gensler as the SEC boss in a bid to “correct a long series of abuses.” SEC’s ‘Unconstitutional Overreach’ The announcement comes after the SEC said that it would “modernize” the proposed redefinition...