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ArticleGiant Twitter hack impacts Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, others
Perhaps the biggest Twitter hack of all time was perpetrated Wednesday against such notable figures as Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, former President Barack Obama, and Jeff Bezos, among others.
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Libra Association appoints chief compliance officer
The Libra Association continued its string of key executive hirings with the appointment of Sterling Daines as chief compliance officer.
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Libra adds former FinCEN head as general counsel
Fledgling digital currency group the Libra Association announced the appointment of former FinCEN and OFAC Director Robert Werner as general counsel.
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Back against wall, Libra turns to compliance
Looking to get back on track for its planned 2020 release, Libra is pushing a new word at the forefront of its latest attempt to get critics on board with its digital currency mission: compliance.
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Treasury Secretary sets goal for cryptocurrency regulation
Taking into account the Trump administration’s trade concerns involving cryptocurrencies, the Treasury Department has announced it will roll out new regulations later this year.
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Mastercard CEO lists Libra red flags as reason for exit
Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga cites concerns with compliance, data management, and making money within regulatory constraints among the reasons his company left the Facebook-led Libra Association late last year.
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Regulators wary of crypto as digital assets go mainstream
Federal agencies struggle to categorize digital coins as currency, securities, commodities, property, or something else—but even as they dither, some big companies strive forward in the digital assets arena.
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Internal control best practices for blockchain technology
Those in accounting who want to understand better the inherent risks, threats and vulnerabilities, and internal control best practices associated with the use of blockchain technology now have a first-of-its-kind framework to follow.
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SEC seeks to thwart cryptocurrency masquerading as ICO
The SEC is taking a different approach to target initial coin offerings than it has in the past in the case of its complaint against Telegram Group and its wholly owned subsidiary TON Issuer.
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IRS updates guidance on tax treatment of virtual currencies
As part of a wider effort to assist taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service has issued two new pieces of guidance for those who engage in transactions involving virtual currency.
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Libra Association soldiers on after PayPal withdraws
PayPal leaving Facebook’s Libra project is just a bump in the road in the drive toward developing a global digital currency payments network, a Libra Association spokesperson says.
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SEC charges ICOBox for unregistered offering, broker activity
The SEC has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency startup ICOBox, a California company in the business of facilitating other companies’ ICOs, and its founder for conducting an illegal securities offering of its digital tokens and for acting as unregistered brokers for other digital asset offerings.
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Facebook concedes Libra currency might never launch
Facebook recently acknowledged in a filing with the SEC that there can be no assurance its planned Libra offering “will be made available in a timely manner, or at all.”
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Congress, Treasury take swings at Facebook’s Libra plan
A plan by Facebook to enter the world of virtual currency is attracting predictable skepticism in Washington. It could also expedite the slow emergence of national data protection laws.
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After another arrogant move, Facebook needs to be put in check
The social media company is hardly quiet about its crypto initiative, but nevertheless failed to see the materiality of creating a global payments system.
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Fed Chair urges caution with Facebook virtual currency venture
Count Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and several members of Congress as concerned observers of Facebook’s planned foray into the world of virtual currency.
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Despite critics, Facebook plunges into virtual currency
Amid growing antitrust scrutiny and data privacy complaints, Facebook is nevertheless expanding into the cryptocurrency space.
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Anatomy of a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme
Much has been discussed about the business risks posed by cryptocurrency. Now, risk and compliance professionals have a real-life cryptocurrency pyramid scheme with which to cite.
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TRON hires its first head of compliance
David Labhart, a former supervisory attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined TRON as the blockchain network's first head of compliance to help navigate its interaction with regulatory agencies and other financial authorities around the world.
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iComply offers screening for sanctioned crypto addresses
RegTech cryptocurrency platform iComply is offering comprehensive KYC capabilities to address risks related to blockchain addresses, including sanctions screening.
