Two weeks after banning crypto-owning government employees from working on policy, the U.S. government is now insisting that staff declare their non-fungible token (NFT) holdings. The Office of Govern...
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U.K. Faces Hottest Day On Record As Weather Officials Issue Warning—Here’s Why It’s A Cause For Concern
Topline Temperatures across the U.K. are expected to hit an all-time high Monday, with the nation’s Met Office issuing a ‘red’ warning for extreme heat amid a dangerous heat wave eng...
UK Treasury Officials Met with Crypto and Venture Capital Firms in Q1: Sources
UK Treasury officials engaged with crypto stakeholders for several meetings. UK Treasury disclosed a number of meetings between top officials and crypto firms during the first quarter this year. Accor...
ECB Top Officials Back Europe’s CBDC Initiative Over Cryptocurrencies
11 mins ago | 2 mins read Altcoin News The existing model’s stability is based on using public money as an anchor. Non-European businesses might gain a monopoly on the European payments market. Centra...
Most Bank Officials Say DTL And Crypto Will Play Lesser Liquidity Role In The Future
A recent survey carried out by US Federal Reserve Board revealed that most of the officials at top banks are not considering cryptocurrencies and related products and services a priority soon. The res...
Fed Heads Toward 75 Basis-Point Rate Hike With Officials Wary of Bigger Move
(Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve officials are on track to raise interest rates by 75 basis points for the second straight month when they meet later in July, after policy makers pushed back agains...
Stablecoin rules among topics discussed during Janet Yellen’s meeting with Japanese officials
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to discuss several multilateral financial regulatory issues, including stablecoins, Reuters reported. According to ...
Sri Lankan officials maintain crypto snub despite economic collapse
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) reiterated its anti-crypto stance in a new notice dated July 12. It confirmed that no entities are authorized to carry out digital asset activities, warning that u...
Were IRS Research Audits Used To Target Trump’s Enemies? Here’s Another Possible Explanation For Why Two Ex-FBI Officials Got Picked
Two former FBI officials were the subjects of a rare type of IRS audit. Were they targeted? getty It may be every politician’s favorite fantasy—weaponizing the IRS. Last week the New York Times report...
G20 Treasury Officials To Present 1st Global Crypto Regulations In October
The G20 has thus far restricted itself to merely keeping an eye on the cryptocurrency market, noting that it has found no compelling reason to strictly clamp down on the industry because it poses no “...
South Korea, US officials discuss sharing data in crypto investigations: Forkast
South Korea’s Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon met with US investigators in New York last week amid the countries’ separate probes into Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon, Forkast reported, citin...
At Least 15 Killed In Russian Strike On Ukrainian Apartments, Officials Say
Topline A Russian strike on two residential buildings in eastern Ukraine killed at least 15 people and may have left dozens more stranded under the rubble, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as Russian ...
US Government Officials Holding Crypto Prohibited From Working on Industry Policies
The United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE) outlined that cryptocurrencies and stablecoins do not qualify as “publicly traded securities” according to the agency’s regulations. As such, it ban...
Fed officials Waller and Bullard back another big interest rate increase in July
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building in Washington, D.C. Sarah Silbiger | Reuters The Federal Reserve is well on its way to another sharp interest rate hike in July and perhaps Septem...
US Restricts Officials Holding Crypto From Policy Making
Amid the increasing scrutiny over laws and policies related to cryptocurrency over the world, the US has issued an advisory for officials holding digital assets. Crypto holding officials can affect po...
US Officials Owning Crypto Banned From Working On Crypto Regulations
– Advertisement – The United States prohibits government officials who own cryptocurrency from working on crypto regulations. Government workers who are actively investing in cryptocurre...
U.S. and South Korean Officials Meet to Discuss Terra Collapse
Key Takeaways Officials from South Korea and the U.S. met on Tuesday in New York to share information on financial crime. In that meeting, they discussed their investigations of the collapsed stableco...
ECB officials prepare for ‘harmonization’ of crypto regulations: Report
The European Central Bank, or ECB, will reportedly be preparing to implement a new law by warning European Union member states about the necessity of harmonizing regulations for crypto. According to a...
A historic Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCa) framework approved by European Union officials
Richard Gardner, CEO of Modulus, thinks the new rule may spell the end of the present slump in digital assets. A historic regulation known as the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCa) framework, which offer...
Trump Asked Attorney General To Seize Voting Machines, DOJ Officials Say
Topline Former President Donald Trump asked top Department of Justice officials to seize voting machines in an tense “emergency meeting” on December 31, 2020, as part of an apparent attemp...
Chevron, ExxonMobil CEOs Set The Stage For Thursday Meeting With Biden Officials
Mike Wirth, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron USA Inc., speaks during the 2022 … [+] CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, U.S., on Monday, March 7, 2022. CERAWe...
GOP Officials In New Mexico County Relent And Certify Election Results After Trump-Inspired Fraud Concerns
Topline Commissioners in Otero County, New Mexico, voted 2-1 Friday afternoon to certify the results of a recent primary election, reversing course after their unanimous vote earlier this week to bloc...
Republican Officials In New Mexico County Refuse To Certify Election Results—And State Officials Want A Criminal Probe
Topline Republican officials in a rural New Mexico county refused to certify their primary election results this week due to vague concerns about ballot boxes and voting machines, echoing former Presi...
XRP Lawsuit Former SEC Official’s Speech Will Now Decide The Course Of The Ripple Case
Officials from Ripple anticipate the documents sought by the SEC will expose debate among the agency’s top officials on how to identify XRP as a security, undercutting the SEC’s position. ...
Coinbase Officials together made Over $1 Billion from selling COIN Stakes
After going public earlier this year, co-founders Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam, President and Chief Operating Officer Emilie Choi, and Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee made a combined $1.2 ...
Top Coinbase Officials Jointly Sold Over $1 Billion Worth of COIN Stock
A Coinbase spokesperson asserted that the four top leaders maintain large positions in the exchange, demonstrating “their commitment to the long-term opportunities.” Co-founders Brian Armstrong and Fr...
Are Limitations On Cryptocurrency Derivatives By Dutch Officials Necessary
The advantages are numerous and varied, including those that actually reduce risk. Consider that derivative trading necessitates the use of arbitrage, which is required to ensure that asset valuations...
Dutch Officials Restrictions on Crypto Derivatives – Are They Necessary?
HodlX Guest Post Submit Your Post Recently, Paul-Willem van Gerwen, head of capital markets and transparency supervision at the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets discussed the risks of cryptocu...
IMF, Bank of France officials believe more CBCDs will emerge in next three to five years
The Governor of the Bank of France François Villeroy de Galhau said that the world might see a strong central bank digital currency emerge in the next three years. Galhau was asked during a panel at t...
Russian Prison Officials Running Crypto Mining Seized
Editors News Many Russians are turning to subsidized and even unauthorized power. Machines used over 8,400 kW of power paid for by the government. The Butyrskaya jail in central Moscow’s Tverskoy Dist...