Reported by: DANIELLE LETENYEI As the holidays get closure, you may plan on buying gift cards for friends and family members, but beware! There is a gift card scam out there that fraudsters are using to dupe you out of money. In the gift card scam, the thieves print and place their own barcode over the […]
Reported by: Scott Nover Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is widely considered a commodity. A federal court ruling in 2018 gave the CFTC regulatory authority by designating bitcoin as such. But CFTC chairman Rostin Behnam and SEC chairman Gary Gensler agree that’s the exception rather than the rule. Despite grey areas including the cryptocurrency ether, […]
Reported by: Temitayo Jaiyeola Mastercard has announced the launch of Crypto SourceTM, a programme to enable financial institutions offer crypto services to their customers. According to the payment platform, it has partnered with regulated and licensed crypto custody providers, to afford its partner financial institutions gain access to a comprehensive suite of buy, hold and […]
Reported by: Martin Young On Oct. 27, Solidus Labs announced the launch of a real-time on-chain Threat Intelligence tool. It has been touted as a first-of-its-kind approach to the retroactive methods of dealing with crypto scams. Additionally, the firm also released its findings on the growing number of crypto scams and rug pulls. The report […]
Reported by: Richard Milne, Nordic and Baltic Correspondent Danske Bank believes it will cost about $2bn in fines to resolve one of the largest money-laundering scandals on record as it nears a solution with US and Danish authorities. Denmark’s biggest bank said on Thursday that it would take an additional charge of DKr14bn ($1.9bn), taking the total […]
Reported by: Ian Taylor In 2018, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wrote to the heads of the country’s biggest high street banks to emphasize the importance of due diligence when dealing with crypto businesses. That seems to have led to widespread high-risk ratings and bans on crypto-related banking, impacting both crypto businesses hoping […]
Reported by: Jonathan Stempel Bill Hwang, whose Archegos Capital Management LP collapsed suddenly in March 2021, on Tuesday urged a federal judge to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit accusing him and his once-$36 billion private investment firm of fraud. In court filings, Hwang and Archegos said the SEC failed to show […]
Reported by: Nick Sibilla Buried deep in a 61-page recent report by the U.S. Attorney General, the Biden Administration called for a dramatic expansion in the federal government’s ability to seize and keep cryptocurrency. If enacted, the proposed changes would bolster both criminal forfeiture, which requires a conviction to permanently confiscate property, as well as civil forfeiture, […]
Reported by: Rufus Kamau Why is privacy important in Bitcoin transactions? First, if you have a sizable balance in your wallet, you don’t want anyone finding out because it exposes you to a $5 wrench attack. A $5 wrench attack occurs when someone discovers you have a large stash of bitcoin and controls the keys […]
Reported by: Alexander Marrow and Supantha Mukherjee SAP (SAPG.DE) will miss its deadline to exit Russia before the end of the year as the German software group has failed to find a buyer for the unit, five sources told Reuters, underscoring the difficulties some companies are facing to leave the country. The Walldorf, Germany-based enterprise software company […]
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