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  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    News in-depthGambling industry
    Stake.com: the Aussie gambling minnow that made it big on crypto

    Business founded in 2017 has grown almost unnoticed to become the world’s seventh largest gambling group

    3 hours ago
  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Sam Bankman-Fried
    US charges Bankman-Fried with bribing Chinese officials

    Prosecutors allege FTX founder made multimillion-dollar payment to help unfreeze accounts

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Cheap FTX crypto tokens were offered to Genesis executives

    Major lender was able to invest at a discounted rate before tokens were issued to public

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Binance
    Crypto exchange Binance accused by CFTC of illegally serving US clients

    Chief executive Changpeng Zhao also named in regulator’s complaint that seeks fines and an injunction

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Read the CFTC’s lawsuit against Binance

    Key words include: injunction

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Crypto groups expand in Hong Kong in bid to tap mainland China demand

    Asia’s financial hub is working to lure exchanges moving out of Singapore

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Binance suffers two-hour outage after software glitch

    World’s biggest crypto exchange hit by technical issue in its trading systems

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    Stablecoins
    Oh Circle

    “USDC has not missed a beat”

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    Cryptofinance
    UK crypto companies call for help to break a banking barrier

    Plus, US regulators target Do Kwon and Coinbase

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Do Kwon
    US charges crypto fugitive Do Kwon after Montenegro arrest

    Terraform Labs co-founder faces eight criminal counts, including securities and wire fraud

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    LexFintech
    Fintech: scrutiny at Coinbase and Block comes amid bank wobble Premium content

    Coping with rule books seems hard for the disrupters

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Coinbase
    Coinbase shares fall after SEC warning on potential legal action

    US regulator is looking into the crypto exchange’s staking business

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Jemima Kelly
    Beware the ‘sensible’ crypto crowd — they’re worse than the fanatics

    The strait-laced, earnest types threaten to legitimise a high-risk, opaque and ill-understood industry

  • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    21Shares to close six crypto ETFs

    Swiss exchange traded product provider blames low demand

  • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
    Signature Bank
    Short seller warned US regulator about Signature Bank in January

    Property-focused lender had a reputation for promoting entrepreneurial bankers and a blind spot for risk

  • Sunday, 19 March, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Humbled ‘crypto bros’ don blazers for Boca Raton

    Digital disrupters in short supply at derivatives conference — and those there had given up on T-shirts

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    UK tax
    Crypto to be added to self- assessment tax forms

    Changes will make it harder for investors to overlook reporting requirements

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Bitcoin
    Bitcoin hits nine-month high as traders shift away from banks

    Digital token prices hit highest level since last June

  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Cryptofinance
    Crypto's brush with disaster after SVB collapse

    Plus, fresh updates on crypto’s murky underworld

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    Traders pull $3bn from crypto stablecoin USDC in three days

    Withdrawals came after operator Circle revealed it had $3.3bn trapped in failed Silicon Valley Bank

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    The Silicon Valley Bank fallout makes the case for digital currencies Premium content

    If we think all deposits must be safe, what is the point of banks?

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Sam Bankman-Fried said to have taken $2.2bn from FTX entities

    Inquiry by bankrupt crypto exchange’s new management identifies $3.2bn in transfers to inner circle

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    Financial fraud
    Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui arrested on US fraud charges

    Prosecutors allege he ‘led a complex conspiracy’ to bilk online followers out of more than $1bn

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    Cryptocurrencies
    NatWest to limit customers’ crypto payments

    Links between crypto and regulated financial institutions fray further

  • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
    The Crypt, updated

    There but for the grace of common sense go we

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