To win approval for the $44bn combination, the companies agreed to sell three of IHS Markit's price reporting agency businesses.
November 15, 2021The US Treasury Department, OFAC, State Department, DOJ, and FinCEN have taken coordinated action to counter the ransomware threat.
November 10, 2021The CFTC has fined Tether $41mn and Bitfinex's parent $1.5mn. Meanwhile New York prosecutors have directed two crypto lending platforms to cease operations.
October 21, 2021Transactions that raised over $1bn were used to "perpetrate a hidden debt scheme", pay kickbacks to investment bankers, and bribe government officials.
October 20, 2021The NCET will cooperate with international law enforcement agencies as well as private sector actors to target the criminal misuse of cryptocurrency.
October 8, 2021An unsealed indictment shows that six individuals and a Swiss firm used accounts in Singapore and Hong Kong to help US clients evade taxes from 2009 to 2014.
September 30, 2021Under a deferred prosecution agreement, Meng admitted to making material misrepresentations to HSBC regarding Huawei’s operations in Iran.
September 27, 2021Binance reportedly has plans to become a licensed financial institution, with a centralised headquarters, to make it easier to work with regulators.
September 23, 2021Allianz is facing probes from BaFin, SEC and DOJ, as well as 25 investor lawsuits, over last year's collapse of its Structured Alpha Funds.
September 8, 2021BitConnect promised investors lucrative returns through the use of a proprietary trading bot, but investor funds were siphoned off by the company's founder and others.
September 6, 2021