Yet another scandal on the Internet. The UMI representatives are accusing the biggest data aggregator in the digital assets market — CoinMarketCap — of publishing information injurious to the crypto p...
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CFTC commissioner appoints senior policy adviser experienced in digital asset regulation
Caroline Pham, currently serving as a commissioner at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, has announced a former head of U.S. regulatory policy at investment banking firm ...
Texas Transgender ‘Child Abuse’ Policy Can Go Back Into Effect, State Supreme Court Rules
Topline Texas’ policy directing state officials to investigate parents of transgender children for “child abuse” can go back into effect, as the Texas Supreme Court on Friday lifted a lower court’s or...
Ahead of summer storms, check homeowners policy for weather coverage
Win McNamee | Getty Images As spring warmth takes hold, homeowners may want to make sure they’re prepared for the severe weather that will likely soon follow. That preparation should include che...
The UK government policy agenda targets crypto for its safe adoption
The United Kingdom (UK) has tabled two legislation dealing with the confiscation and support of cryptocurrencies. The law will govern the cryptocurrency business and ensure that regulators can recover...
China Faces Omicron ‘Tsunami’ If It Abandons Controversial Zero-Covid Policy, Researchers Warn
Topline China faces an omicron “tsunami” that could overwhelm hospitals and kill more than 1 million people if it abandons its “zero-Covid” strategy, according to a new study published in Nature Medic...
Apple loses director of machine learning over its office return policy
Last week, a group of Apple employees wrote an open letter criticizing the company’s hybrid work-from-home policy, which requires employees to be at the office three days a week starting May 23r...
Innovative Manufacturing Requires Workers And Machines In Tandem, MIT Professors Say At Symposium
Professor John Hart opening remarks at the Manufacturing at MIT symposium on May 6, 2022. Julie Diop We might be witnessing the dawn of a new industrial era in this decade. Strikingly, it might be des...
China’s Covid Policy Will “Exact A Very High Cost On The Economy”
A health worker in personal protective equipment administers a booster shot to an international … [+] resident at a hospital during a lockdown due to Covid-19 in Shanghai, China on Saturday, May...
The Weekly Wrap – Fed Monetary Policy Sinks Riskier Assets
The Stats While it was a busy week on the economic calendar for the week ending May 6, 2022, the Fed monetary policy decision was the main event. A total of 62 stats were monitored, following 56 stats...
Let’s Talk Food Waste, Protecting Meatpacking Workers And What Does Better Food Policy Look Like?
I’m thinking a lot about food waste this week. Maybe it’s the millions upon millions of chickens, turkeys and egg-laying birds that have been killed due to avian flu. Big food companies like to tout t...
China’s Xi Jinping calls for sticking to zero-Covid policy
Xi Jinping seen giving a speech during the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in Fuyang on July 1, 2021. From a political perspective, 2022 is a particularly critical year for C...
Want To Save The Planet? Invest In Better Ag Policy, Not Biotech Meat
A technician displays a lab-grown chicken meat in a sealed bag at the food-tech startup SuperMeat in … [+] the central Israeli town of Ness Ziona on June 18, 2021. – It looks like chicken ...
Cramer defends Powell’s inflation policy ahead of Fed rate decision
CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday defended Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell and said that the beaten-down state of previously inflated stocks shows the Fed chief is on the right track to corralling i...
Crypto.com hires Visa alum as new VP of policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Exchange and service provider Crypto.com has hired Visa’s Head of regulatory affairs for Europe as its new Vice President, Policy and Engagement for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). R...
Crypto.com Appoints Former Visa Boss as VP of Policy of EMEA
Digital currency trading platform, Crypto.com has tapped the services of Roeland Van der Stappen, a Brussels-based regulatory veteran as its new Vice President of Policy in charge of Europe, the Middl...
Stagflation risk rises as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy
The Federal Reserve is hiking interest rates in an effort to defuse an explosive year of price inflation. But global forces could neutralize the effects of that tightening of monetary policy, and keep...
Tightening Monetary Policy Threatens Decentralized Finance and Crypto
Central banks are plotting to taper their balance sheets by as much as $410 billion for the rest of 2022 to deal with worsening inflation. The downside of this move could see crypto markets experience...
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Surge Predicts A Modern US International Policy Toolbox Op-Ed
The bill was introduced in the US House of Representatives just as President Nayib Bukele was preparing to fly to Miami for the Bitcoin 2022 Conference after a rash of grisly gangland murders claimed ...
Trevor Bauer suspended for 2 seasons over sex assault policy violation
Umpires check the hat and glove of Trevor Bauer #27 of the Los Angeles Dodgers for foreign substances after the first inning against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium on June 28, 2021 in Los ...
The Bond Vigilantes Are Back, Overriding The Fed’s ‘Go Slow’ Policy
Bond vigilantes riding to the rescue getty Inflation is galloping, real yields are tanking and Federal Reserve heels are dragging. Wall Street’s bond professionals have seen enough. The lack of ...
Biden blocks sales of inefficient lightbulbs, reversing Trump policy
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about climate change and protecting national forests on Earth Day at Seward Park in Seattle, Washington, April 22, 2022. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Biden ad...
Internal documents show EU policy makers want to push Ethereum over Bitcoin
EU policymakers are back in the spotlight less than a month after voting for stricter rules on unhosted crypto wallets. This time it’s to do with internal documents that show discussion to “protect” E...
Coinbase CEO Says Apple’s Crypto Policy Raises ‘Potential Antitrust Issues’ – News Bitcoin News
The CEO of the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, says Apple has not played nice with crypto, noting that the tech giant has banned a bunch of crypto features in its App ...
A roundup of the policy discussion at Miami’s Bitcoin 2022
An estimated 25,000 people descended on Miami, Florida earlier this month for Bitcoin 2022, the world’s largest Bitcoin-focused conference. That’s more than double the attendance the confe...
Regulator Sets out Crypto Policy Roadmap
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has published its crypto policy roadmap and initial risk management through 2025. “The APRA is developing the longer-term prudential framework for...
Australian Regulators Reveal Crypto Policy Roadmap
Key Takeaways The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has put forward a regulatory roadmap for cryptocurrency assets. The roadmap covers rules for working with crypto-assets, operational...
Former FCA Regulator Becomes New Binance Director of Regulatory Policy
Binance, a major cryptocurrency exchange, said on Thursday that it appointed Steven McWhirter as its new Director of Regulatory Policy. According to the press release, McWhirter comes from the UK Fin...
Binance Updates its Policy for Russians Amid Latest EU Sanctions
In line with the recently-imposed fifth wave of sanctions from the European Union toward Russia, Binance has made changed to its policy regarding investors from and based in the world’s largest countr...
Tony Awards Issues ‘Strict No Violence Policy’ After Will Smith Slap
Topline Producers of the Tony Awards, which celebrate Broadway theater, warned potential ticket buyers Wednesday of a “strict no violence policy” at the ceremony, expressly stating perpetrators will b...
China’s Censors Target WHO Chief After Comments Criticizing Flagship Zero-Covid Policy
Topline China’s internet censors have targeted the head of the World Health Organization after he questioned the viability of the country’s zero-Covid policy on Tuesday, removing social media posts re...