CFTC taps new adviser with digital currency regulation experience
CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham has appointed Keaghan Ames as counselor & senior policy advisor. Ames has experience in advising on digital currency regulatory issues.
CFTC Commissioner Caroline D. Pham has appointed Keaghan Ames as counselor & senior policy advisor. Ames has experience in advising on digital currency regulatory issues.
Controversial “crypto” exchange FTX hopes the CFTC will vanquish the SEC in the regulatory turf war over which branch of the U.S. government gets primary oversight of digital assets.
The CFTC and DOJ charged the four with defrauding investors through Empowercoin, Ecoinplus, and JetCoin, which were described as digital asset multi-level marketing scams.
Polymarket allowed its users to bet on events such as who wins the U.S. presidential elections or the number of COVID cases, but violated regulations, according to the regulator.
The top government attorneys from U.S. regulators plan to target gatekeepers and other individuals as well as expand their use of data-based probes.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants to know if Polymarket’s prediction markets allow users to trade swaps or binary options and if it should be registered with the agency.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has slapped Tether with US$42.5 million in penalties, saying it made "untrue" and "misleading" statements and "omissions of material fact" in its management of the USDT.
The 12 have allegedly been offering users the opportunity to purchase binary options based off the value of commodities like digital currencies and forex, according to the regulator.
The CFTC has settled with Kraken after accusing the exchange of offering unqualified investors illegal margined digital currency products without a license.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has launched a probe on Binance over alleged insider trading and market manipulation, saying its executives may have made money at the expense of users.
The three were charged for the scam by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in September 2020 for duping at least 27 investors for close to $1 million.
The derivatives trading platform allegedly violated U.S. regulations when it offered investment products without acquiring the necessary license and failed to implement customer identification programs.