Twitter Inc.’s former chief executive officer revealed the US Justice Department and the US Securities and Exchange Commission investigated the social-media platform in the past as part of his effort to force the company to cover legal fees related to lawsuits and government probes. ...Read More

The brother of a former Coinbase employee has agreed to pay the cryptocurrency exchange nearly $470,000 for his role in an insider trading scheme. According to a New York District Court filing signed on April 6 and made public on April 10, Nikhil Wahi — brother ...Read More

Noah Perlman, the newly hired global chief compliance officer at Binance Holdings Ltd., said the regulatory environment for the cryptocurrency industry has made his job one of the “most challenging opportunities in compliance.” Mr. Perlman, speaking at a crypto industry conference on Tuesday, said ...Read More

While Silicon Valley Bank’s outside auditor KPMG LLP cited potential losses on loans as a critical matter two weeks before its collapse, the audit firm missed the inherent bond losses and unreliable deposits that took the financial institution down, the Wall Street Journal reported. A ...Read More

New York regulators are poised to set the benchmark for crypto firms in the U.S. and worldwide with its licensing regime that the crypto industry covets and loathes for its attainability. State of play: Superintendent Adrienne Harris took the helm of the state’s Department of Financial Services in January ...Read More

The U.K. government said it would hire 475 financial crime investigators and change laws around corporate crime as part of a new plan to crack down on economic crime. The three-year plan, unveiled Thursday, calls for new spending of £400 million, equivalent to $495 ...Read More

The speed with which deposits were pulled from Silicon Valley Bank have left many wondering whether mobile banking now carries its own liquidity management risks. Whether SVB’s depositors were largely a tech savvy breed, and therefore an outlier, remains to be seen in the ...Read More