OJK baru saja memerintahkan bank untuk memblokir 25.912 rekening yang terkait aktivitas judi online. Ini langkah tegas dalam rangka memperkuat pengawasan serta deteksi dini pola mencurigakan. Regulasi baru dan dukungan Satgas juga diperkuat sebagai bagian dari upaya pencegahan Konsumen diingat

Photo: Cointelegraph The Financial Action Task Force is looking to adapt its guidance standards for stablecoins and crypto peer-to-peer transactions. The Financial Action Task Force says it is set to publish an update to its guidelines on cryptocurrencies and virtual asset service providers; a catch

Photo: Coindesk Witnesses will likely suggest giving FinCEN better tools to watch for illicit financing tools. Members of Congress will discuss whether and how cryptocurrencies and decentralized systems may be used to fund domestic terrorism on Thursday. The House Financial Services Committee Subcom

Photo: Cointelegraph Nigeria’s central bank is doubling down on its anti-cryptocurrency stance. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has defended the apex bank’s decision to ban banks from servicing cryptocurrency exchanges in the country. Appearing before a joint Senate Committ

Photo: Cointelegraph A U.S. federal judge ruled to dismiss a case against crypto firm Bancor, citing lack of personal jurisdiction and the plaintiff’s failure to prove losses. A federal district court in the United States has dismissed a securities fraud class action against Israel-based cryptocurre

Photo: Cointelegraph New York regulators are forcing Tether to be fully transparent about its reserves, at the cost of not serving New York residents. Bitfinex and Tether settled with the Office of the New York Attorney General in the landmark case against Tether. New York authorities alleged that T

Photo: Wikifx The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) recently added new names of unlicensed entities and suspicious websites to its blacklist, which have come to the attention of the SFC because they are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investo

Photo: Cointelegraph Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes has called on all legacy traders to “opt-out” of legacy trading platforms and embrace the “Crypto Capital Markets.” BitMEX co-founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes have returned from exile with a post on the derivatives exchange’s official blog calli

Photo: Cointelegraph BitPay apparently screened merchants but not customers. BitPay will have to pay the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control over half a million dollars for crypto services to sanctioned regions. In a Feb 18 announcement of the settlement, OFAC said that BitPay had

Photo: Cointelegraph Crypto and blockchain stakeholders in Nigeria have criticized the central bank’s decision to ban banks from servicing crypto firms. The Central Bank of Nigeria has banned banks from servicing crypto exchanges in the country in a move that echoes actions taken by its Indian count

Photo: Cointelegraph 501(3)(c) status boosts the project's legitimacy as well as its efficiency in using donations. A new non-profit aiming to fund Bitcoin development education and research has been approved for special tax status, conferring benefits on donors. Brink, which launched in the fall, h

Photo: Cointelegraph DeFi protocol Yearn.Finance repaid victims of its $11 million hack by opening a Maker vault with YFI tokens from its newly expanded treasury. Major decentralized finance protocol Yearn.Finance (YFI) has restored its yDAI vault in the aftermath of an $11 million exploit by hacker

Photo: Cointelegraph South African authorities will be keeping a close eye on the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of major scams and booming markets. Authorities in South Africa appear to be paying closer attention to the cryptocurrency space in 2021 in the wake of a major Bitcoin (BTC) Pon

Photo: Cointelegraph A half-billion-dollar loan has been closed out, but multiple court cases grind on In a short statement today, Bitfinex — the sister company to centralized stable coin Tether — announced that it has repaid Tether an outstanding loan balance of $550 million. This action fully clos