The HCMC did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for comment regarding Binance’s MiCA licensing process. “As the person who led the license application, there’s nothing that I have been made aware of that there was any issue with the application,” Lynch added. “In… Read More
A group of Senate Republicans has urged US financial regulators to clarify the capital standards for companies engaged in crypto activities. Senator Cynthia Lummis said on Thursday that she led the group in sending a letter on May 27 to Federal Reserve Vice Chair for… Read More
The crypto industry’s stablecoin operations, such as the arrangement between issuer Circle and leading exchange Coinbase, could be under serious pressure in the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s newly proposed set of stablecoin rules. Even as OCC chief Jonathan Gould testified in… Read More
South Korea’s top financial watchdog is stepping up oversight of crypto markets days after a local exchange mistakenly distributed billions of dollars worth of bitcoin to users. The Financial Supervisory Service said Sunday it will launch planned investigations into “high-risk” practices that undermine market order,… Read More
Tokenizing collateral and moving it instantly across borders is no longer a theory, it’s happening. But at a panel discussion at the SmartCon conference in New York on Wednesday, executives from Citi, DTCC and Taurus warned that while the technology has caught up, regulation hasn’t.… Read More
