Cryptocurrencies News

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance ministry on Friday set out plans to overhaul the financial sector including a review of rules to make bankers accountable for their decisions and easing capital requirements on smaller lenders.

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said the financial services reforms he announced on Friday would not lead to a repeat of the regulatory errors that contributed to the 2008 global financial crisis.

NICOSIA (Reuters) – Euro zone banks are relatively healthy at the start of the economic downturn and a key priority will be to keep down the stock of soured loans, European Central Bank supervisory chief Andrea Enria said on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Friday set out plans to overhaul the financial sector including a review of rules to make bankers accountable for their decisions and easing capital requirements on smaller lenders.

By David Morgan (Reuters) – House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters told Reuters on Thursday that she is prepared to subpoena FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, if he does not agree to appear before the panel next week, and she is working out the best way

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. securities regulator on Thursday warned public companies to examine whether they need to disclose to investors any potential impacts from recent market volatility and bankruptcies in the cryptocurrency industry.

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police charged four Chinese nationals on Friday over an online investment scam based mainly in the United States, which authorities said caused losses of more than $100 million across the world.

(Reuters) – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith are demanding an accounting from the Federal Reserve and other U.S. financial regulators of banks’ cryptocurrency activity and ties to the industry following the implosion of crypto exchange FTX.

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar remained weak on Thursday after sliding against major peers overnight for the first time this week as investors fretted about the potential for recession in the United States.

ECB President Lagarde opened the Sixth Annual Conference of the European Systemic Risk Board and digital assets were the hot topic.

(Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters tweeted on Wednesday that a subpoena of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was “definitely on the table.”

By Medha Singh (Reuters) – Total funding at crypto startups this year is set to exceed investments in 2021, research firm Pitchbook said on Thursday though the pace of capital deployment is slowing as a series of crypto blowups sapped private equity investment appetite.

(Reuters) – U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried manipulated the market for two cryptocurrencies this May that led to their collapse and resulted in the implosion of his own cryptocurrency exchange, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday ruled that some customers of crypto lender Celsius Network should receive their deposits back, giving relief to a relatively small group of customers whose deposits were never commingled with other Celsius funds.

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against reality TV star Kim Kardashian, boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. and others over their role in promoting a cryptocurrency, saying it was not clear that the investors who sued actually

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. crypto firm Genesis is working to preserve client assets and strengthen liquidity, it said in a letter to clients on Wednesday, adding that it would take “weeks rather than days” to form a plan.

(Reuters) – Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc revenue is set to reduce to half this year, Bloomberg News reported, citing an interview with chief executive officer Brian Armstrong.

By Tom Hals and Dietrich Knauth WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – A U.S. judge this week is considering for the first time the question of who owns bitcoin and other tokens in frozen accounts at a bankrupt digital asset exchange in a case that could shape customer

By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s biggest pension fund, CPP Investments, has ended its effort to study investment opportunities in the volatile crypto market, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler said that companies that help facilitate transactions in the cryptocurrency market should come into compliance with law.