News with the tag "Policy"

Arthur Hayes, the former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX, has been granted a pardon by U.S. President Donald Trump, a White House official confirmed Friday. Trump also pardoned Hayes’ co-founders at BitMEX, Samuel Reed and Benjamin Delo. CNBC first reported the pardons, which the White House said were...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will no longer instruct banks to get prior sign-off before they engage in crypto activities — a standard that was set in 2022 and that effectively severed institutions from the digital assets sector as they waited for approvals that never came. The FDIC, which is ...

Trace Mayer, a renowned early bitcoin podcaster and advocate who began purchasing the currency as an investment at $0.25, has expressed doubts about the US government’s ability to acquire a substantial portion of the bitcoin supply. While evangelists like Strategy Executive Chair Michael Saylor and ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to reset its relationship with the crypto industry, even before a permanent chair is confirmed by Congress. The latest effort was Friday's roundtable, hosted at the SEC's headquarters in Washington, D.C. and featuring a dozen attorneys represent...

This is a segment from the Forward Guidance newsletter. To read full editions, subscribe . As President Trump was denouncing the “lawless” Operation Chokepoint 2.0 at the Digital Asset Summit , the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency yesterday said it will remove “reputational risks” from its ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has embraced the chance to finally work with the crypto industry to hash out policy for overseeing digital assets transactions, said Commissioner Hester Peirce, the head of the agency's crypto task force. The securities regu...

South Korean financial authorities are planning sanctions against crypto exchanges who are operating illegally in the country, business newspaper Hankyung reported on Friday . The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) classified a number of exchanges who are not registered as Virtual Asset Service Provi...

The crypto industry’s Fairshake political action committee is flooding Republican candidates with last-minute money in special congressional elections in Florida. Two U.S. House of Representatives seats had been opened by resignations when their occupants were tapped for posts in President Donald Tr...

The Trump administration is preparing to restructure the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and integrate blockchain technology into its procurement system, Wired reported, citing a memo circulating among State Department staff. The plan proposes rebranding the agency as U.S. Internat...

U.S. national banks have been told by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that they'll no longer have to answer how controversial customers might damage their reputations — a point that had been criticized by crypto companies and insiders arguing that it contributed to them being debanked....