FATF Joins BIS in Calling Stablecoins ‘Global Risk,’ Citing Money Laundering Concerns
Stablecoins pose a money laundering and terrorist financing risk to the world, the FATF said Friday.
Stablecoins pose a money laundering and terrorist financing risk to the world, the FATF said Friday.
Hackers have been distributing a compromised version of the official Tor Browser that's packed with malware designed to steal bitcoin.
A new report says bitcoin has failed as a means of payment or store of value, but stablecoins like Libra are a risk to financial stability.
Bucking a trend, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) wrote a letter praising Libra as a technological advance that he feels is needed.
The French finance minister has said Libra is an "unacceptable" challenge to state sovereignty and suggested political motives behind the project.
Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard delivered a sharp critique of Libra, which would need to resolve many regulatory hurdles before going live.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Rob Kaplan says the U.S. dollar faces increasing threats to its status as the global reserve currency.
A French central banker is calling for a global regulatory framework on crypto assets.
Two former ranking members of the CFTC offered up a plan for a government-sanctioned, blockchain-based digital dollar.
A U.S. federal grand jury indicted a South Korean citizen for operating a child porn site, funded by millions dollars worth of bitcoin.
The Atlantic island is rolling out the first phase of a national digital identification system built on blockchain tech.
The blockchain analytics provider now offers a window into the data of more than 87 percent of the top 100 cryptocurrencies.
Libra, says Stefan Ingves, is forcing central banks to re-consider their primary product: money.
Smartlands, a UK tokenization firm, is betting on a billion-dollar security token crowdfunding model with a new broker-dealer partnership in the U.S.
To justify halting the launch of Telegram's blockchain project, the SEC relied heavily on communications obtained from investors.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said backers of Facebook’s Libra withdrew from the project, fearing it would not meet regulatory standards.
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has been granted an Irish e-money license that will bring it greater access to EU and EEA markets.
Blockchain digital ID startup ICONLOOP received its first venture capital investment through an $8 million Series A round.
BSTX is seeking regulatory approval to launch one of the first markets for publicly traded, registered security tokens.
The World Federation of Exchanges asked the UK's Financial Conduct Authority not to ban the sale of crypto derivatives to retail investors.
Singaporean citizen Ho Jun Jia has been indicted for stealing over $5 million worth of cloud computing services to mine cryptocurrencies.
The complaint alleges the Calibra logo is too similar to Current’s, which the fintech firm has been using since August 2016.
The heads of three U.S. financial regulators warned the crypto industry to abide by banking laws in a joint statement published Friday.
A New York judge has rejected the state attorney general's request to have Bitfinex and Tether compile documents during an ongoing appeal.
CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has just said ether, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is a commodity not a security.
OKEX Korea is reconsidering a decision to delist the privacy coins zcash and dash it announced in September.
Russia's central bank sees no strong reason to launch a national cryptocurrency that would override the potential risks, according to its chief.
For the first time since 2014, the IRS is detailing how it will tax cryptocurrency holdings. Here's what you need to know.
The central bank has finalized principles the Facebook-led cryptocurrency project must adopt before a U.K. launch.
Senators Brian Schatz and Sherrod Brown have called on Visa, Stripe, and MasterCard to reconsider their membership of the Libra Association.
