The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) yesterday sued the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange for making false and misleading statements in relation to a bitcoin futures contract launched in December 2017. […]
Several exchanges have halted withdrawals of the Solana cryptocurrency after a software problem caused developers to halt its network for several hours yesterday. Binance, Coinbase, FTX and Crypto.com reported (or […]
Three leading cryptocurrency exchanges misled UK clients with digital advertisements, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said today. The ASA is the UK advertising regulator, with the responsibility of ensuring UK […]
US regulators are cracking down aggressively on the trading platforms that offer mouth-watering dollar-denominated interest rates on loans of crypto assets. On Friday, Coinbase announced that it was discontinuing a […]
In an echo of the 2011 Libor scandal, Coinbase’s past manipulation of the bitcoin price impacted a key market benchmark. On Friday the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates […]
Yesterday’s price crash revealed large dislocations in the market for the second-largest cryptocurrency, ethereum. Although cryptocurrencies can be traded around the world 24/7, there is no single market for the […]
A year after it threatened to ban the sale to retail clients of contracts based on bitcoin and other cryptoassets, the UK’s financial markets regulator has put its words into […]
While millions of pre-paid card users have seen their funds frozen as a result of the Wirecard scandal, some using cryptocurrency-based debit cards have been able to retain access to […]
Financial index data help drive the revenues of many stock and futures exchanges. But calculating an index from market inputs, apparently a straightforward activity, can still be a risky one. […]
Launched at the peak of the 2017 bubble, regulated bitcoin futures are playing an increasingly important role in the market for the decade-old cryptocurrency. Futures volumes rise The launch of […]