The CFTC just received the most whistleblower tips ever. Most were crypto-related The agency awarded a total of $16 million to whistleblowers this year. Fortune · Nov 1, 2023
Behind the scenes of week 2 of Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial Caroline Ellison testified about bribery, FTT, Thai prostitutes, and her surprisingly small equity package. Fortune · Oct 16, 2023
Crypto's advocate at the CFTC still has doubts about DeFi Even CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger has her reservations about decentralization and liability. Fortune · Sep 27, 2023
How Do I Reconcile Wheat? How do I reconcile the difference between what the market is telling us about fundamentals and USDA's supply and demand estimates? It's easy. I don't. Barchart · Sep 13, 2023
The Federal Government Is Trying To Shut Down Decentralized Finance The Commodities Futures Trading Commission announces charges and settlements with three companies that may mean very bad news for all DeFi operations doing business with U.S. citizens. Reason · Sep 8, 2023
Consequences of Spoofing: Precious Metals Traders Pay a Steep Price Banks and financial institutions have dominated precious metals wholesale markets for decades. The 2008 global financial crisis changed the rules for the traders handling significant buy and sell orders that often speculate to create income. Barchart · Sep 2, 2023
The new Coinbase blockchain is rife with scam tokens. Who should be responsible? Fraud is part of any decentralized system, but should regulators step in? Fortune · Aug 16, 2023
Regulating Crypto: SEC Chief Takes The Lead, Republicans Lag Behind SEC's Gensler asserts authority over crypto as GOP struggles to propose restraints Zenger · Aug 3, 2023
Coinbase CEO says SEC asked exchange to delist all crypto but Bitcoin “Let’s go to court and find out what the court says.” Fortune · Jul 31, 2023
Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions Cooperative subjects, an unwanted text message, and hunting in a national forest. Reason · Jul 28, 2023
Tennessee couple allegedly defrauded over 100 investors of $6 million in ‘Blessings of God Thru Crypto’ scheme: ‘No one is here to scam you’ The couple called their trading pool “Blessings of God Thru Crypto” and attributed its supposed success to a “Coach Wendy.” Fortune · Jul 26, 2023
Senators Lummis and Gillibrand finally unveil their revamped crypto bill The legislative proposal inserts the Senate back in the conversation and empowers the CFTC. Fortune · Jul 12, 2023
Why Did Short-Term Option Activity in Corn and Soybeans Spike During June? Traders continue to use the CME's short-term options to position themselves in short-term options to play weather forecasts, USDA reports, and other events. Barchart · Jul 6, 2023
Why Did Short-Term Option Activity Spike During June? Traders continue to use the CME's short-term options to position themselves in short-term options to play weather forecasts, USDA reports, and other events. Barchart · Jul 6, 2023
Fortune · Jul 5, 2023 A path out of the crypto regulation quagmire, according to a CFTC veteran Former CFTC chair Timothy Massad argues for a middle ground to oversee the volatile sector.
Fortune · Jul 4, 2023 How a silver dealer’s slow theft of investors' precious American Eagle coins ended in a $146m fine Accountants who checked the inventory in the vaults said some customers didn't even have a deposit box.
Barchart · Jun 26, 2023 Did it Rain Enough to Reverse the Higher Trend in Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Prices? This morning I joined Michelle Rook on AgWeb's Markets Now to discuss the grain markets, livestock market, this weekend's brief insurrection in Russia, and the interest rates.
Fortune · Jun 13, 2023 As regulators circle, Binance’s foundation—its BNB coin—is already crumbling CZ’s dream that “tokenization” is the new capitalism is a fantasy that may soon cost him his company.
WEKU · Jun 10, 2023 Wall Street's top cop is determined to bring crypto to heel. He just took a big shot The SEC announced this week a barrage of lawsuits against crypto exchanges Coinbase and Binance. The outcome could help define the future of the cryptocurrency sector.
Reason · Jun 8, 2023 Gary Gensler's SEC Cracks Down on Coinbase and Binance The SEC is suing Coinbase, alleging that it's an unregistered securities broker, after targeting Binance the day before.
Fortune · Jun 6, 2023 Cboe Digital receives approval to expand crypto futures products for Bitcoin and Ether, calls it 'a win for the US industry' The approval marks another victory for traditional financial firms in the crypto space.
The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023 Cryptocurrency exchange Binance hits back at SEC lawsuit, saying allegations ‘simply wrong’ – as it happened US watchdog SEC says company mixed billions in customer funds and secretly sent them to separate company controlled by CEO Changpeng Zhao
The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2023 ‘It’s a massive ask’: is Binance capable of being regulated? Crypto exchange says it will do everything possible to change UK watchdog’s mind but opacity remains an issue for US as well
Radio France Internationale · May 13, 2023 The CFDT and the French pension reform This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the CFDT trade union and Macron’s pension reform. You’ll meet Paul Myers – who is our new “Listeners Corner” host - and get happy with Ollia Horton’s “Happy Moment”. All that, and the new quiz question,…
Reuters · May 4, 2023 Exclusive-Israel seized Binance crypto accounts to 'thwart' Islamic State, document shows Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show.