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By Aaron Nicodemus2022-08-04T18:44:00
Are cryptocurrency assets commodities? Are they securities? Should they be regulated by more than one regulator?
A key question regulators need to answer: Is there a point at which a cryptocurrency asset becomes decentralized enough that it has transitioned from a security to a commodity?
These are the kinds of questions swirling around a largely unregulated $2 trillion industry that sits astride the U.S. financial market without any of the transparency or investor protections the rest of the market enjoys. Being unregulated might have been fine for the cryptocurrency industry when it was a tiny sideshow, but it has become too big to ignore.
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2023-07-18T21:06:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
A judge’s ruling the token XRP does not intrinsically possess the characteristics of a security that must be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission has not cleared the uncertainty that remains around the regulation of digital assets, according to experts.
2023-06-05T19:35:00Z By Jeff Dale
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Binance Holdings, its U.S.-based affiliate BAM Trading Services, and their founder Changpeng Zhao with a series of securities law violations, including operating unregistered exchanges.
2022-11-15T21:02:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The collapse and bankruptcy of digital asset exchange FTX offers stark lessons into why rules that apply to traditional investments—overseen by government regulation—ought to apply to digital investments as well.
2024-10-22T14:37:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has proposed a new rule that would regulate the use of Americans’ personal information by foreign companies and foreign persons in six “countries of concern,” prohibiting and restricting the sale of data to thwart the use of data for cyber-enabled activities, espionage, coercion, influence and ...
2024-10-17T17:42:00Z By Adrianne Appel
New York financial institutions are expected to address cybersecurity risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI), and new guidance from the New York Department of Financial Services is aimed at helping firms do just that.
2024-10-17T16:22:00Z By Neil Hodge
Concerns about how robustly European member states may enforce the EU AI Act, which took effect on Aug. 1, are divided between if regulators will take a “light touch” approach or a sledgehammer for noncompliance. One thing’s for sure, the pace of AI innovation will make enforcement very difficult.
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