Cryptocurrencies News

By Angus Berwick and Tom Wilson (Reuters) – Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance had secret access to a bank account belonging to its purportedly independent U.S. partner and transferred large sums of money from the account to a trading firm managed by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, banking

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday is set to weigh tighter restrictions on Sam Bankman-Fried’s internet use, after prosecutors said the indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder may be trying to hide some of his online activity.

LONDON (Reuters) – Bitcoin touched a six-month high on Thursday, swept higher with equities and other relatively risky assets as investors gained confidence in the economic outlook and dismissed concern about regulatory scrutiny of the sector.

By Aftab Ahmed and Christian Kraemer NEW DELHI (Reuters) – G20 finance and central bank chiefs meet in India next week at the first-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to discuss rising debt troubles among developing countries, the regulation of cryptocurrencies and the global

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Former customers of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX have sued three venture capital and private equity firms, accusing them in a proposed class action of fraudulently promoting the cryptocurrency exchange before it went bankrupt.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The names of two of indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bond guarantors were made public on Wednesday.

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Charlie Munger, the longtime business partner of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc, on Wednesday said China remains a top opportunity for investors despite geopolitical risks.

(Reuters) – Bitcoin rose 4.99% to $23,319 at 1959 GMT on Wednesday, adding $1,108 to its previous close.

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – Crypto lender Celsius Network will seek to exit bankruptcy under the guidance of asset manager NovaWulf Digital Management, which will take over the operations of a new company that will be owned by Celsius customers, the company said at a court

(Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday denied calls for a new, independent investigation into the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, saying that the proposed investigation would be redundant to other investigations being carried out by FTX’s new management and law enforcement.

By Abinaya V and Shubham Kalia (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have raised concerns over FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s usage of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to access the internet and have asked a U.S. district judge for more time to discuss his bail conditions.

By Medha Singh (Reuters) – It’s alive! The NFT market is twitching out of its torpor, defying reports of its demise.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday put two regulators’ civil lawsuits against Sam Bankman-Fried on hold until the conclusion of the Department of Justice’s criminal case against the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange.

By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) – New York’s chief financial regulator has ordered Paxos, the company behind the stablecoin of major crypto exchange Binance, to stop issuing the token, Paxos said in a statement on Monday.

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar hovered near a five-week high against major peers on Monday on rising bets for prolonged Federal Reserve policy tightening ahead of a crucial consumer price report the following day.

By Nikunj Ohri (Reuters) – The Group of 20 (G20) big economies is exploring whether the group could collectively regulate cryptocurrencies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Saturday.

By Brendan O’Boyle (Reuters) – Risks over El Salvador’s embrace of bitcoin “have not materialized,” but use of the cryptocurrency still requires transparency and attention, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday in a statement after a visit to the Central American country.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Robinhood Markets Inc of misleading investors when conducting its 2021 initial public offering about the brokerage’s financials and growth prospects.

By Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) – Crypto companies offering their customers eye-popping yields through so-called “staking” products are earning the ire of the U.S. securities regulator who says such services should be registered.

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Crypto exchange Kraken agreed to shut down its cryptocurrency staking service and pay $30 million in penalties to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to register the program, the agency said on Thursday, in a move that could cause headaches for platforms