U.S. Tightens Crackdown on Crypto With Lawsuits Against Coinbase, Binance June 7, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel, Hannah Lang and John McCrank The top U.S. securities regulator sued cryptocurrency platform Coinbase on Tuesday, the second lawsuit in two days against a major...
SEC Sues Binance and Founder Zhao Over ‘Web of Deception’ June 6, 2023 By Hannah Lang, Jonathan Stempel and Tom Wilson U.S. regulators sued Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday for allegedly operating a “web of deception,” piling further...
No Way to Police All Cryptocurrency Fraud, CFTC Commissioner Says May 25, 2023 By Luc Cohen A top U.S. regulator said on Tuesday there is no way to police all cryptocurrency fraud because there is so...
Coinbase Executives Sued for Dumping Stock, Saving $1 Billion May 2, 2023 By Robert Burnson Coinbase Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong, board member Marc Andreessen and other officers avoided more than $1...
Ex-CFO Gets 3 Years Prison for Stealing From SPACs to Trade Meme Stocks, Crypto May 1, 2023 By Luc Cohen A former chief financial officer of multiple special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) was sentenced to three years in prison for...
Coinbase Files Legal Challenge to Push SEC to Write Rules on Crypto April 25, 2023 By Hannah Lang Coinbase Global Inc filed a petition on Monday in an effort to compel the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to...
SEC Sees Decentralized Crypto Platforms as Exchanges, Seeks Public Input April 18, 2023 By Chris Prentice and Hannah Lang The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission met on Friday to open public comment again on its proposal to expand the...
Regulator Sues Top Crypto Exchange Binance, CEO for ‘Willful Evasion’ March 28, 2023 By Tom Wilson and Angus Berwick The world’s biggest crypto exchange Binance and its CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao were sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures...
Coinbase, SEC on Collision Course for ‘Existential’ Clash Over Crypto Industry March 24, 2023 By Chris Prentice and Hannah Lang Coinbase debuted on the U.S. stock market on April 14, 2021 – the same day U.S. senators confirmed Gary Gensler...
Lindsay Lohan, Other Celebs Settle With SEC Over Crypto Case March 24, 2023 By Alex Veiga Actress Lindsay Lohan, rapper Akon and several other celebrities have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle...