The Biden administration is preparing to release an executive action that will task federal agencies with regulating digital assets such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a matter of national security, a person familiar with the White House’s plan tells Barron’s. The national security memorandum, ...Read More

China’s central bank said all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal and must be banned, sending the strongest signal yet on its determination to crack down on the industry. All cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Tether, are not fiat currency and cannot be circulated on the market, ...Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday approved Nasdaq’s push to require race and gender disclosures in its listing rules. The announcement from Wall Street’s top regulator marks the conclusion of a monthslong debate at the SEC on whether to approve or reject Nasdaq’s ...Read More

The Biden administration is vetting a new candidate for the job of top banking regulator after abandoning two earlier choices because a fight broke out within the Democratic Party. If the candidate — Saule Omarova, a professor of banking law at Cornell University Law ...Read More

Amazon and Facebook have filed petitions seeking Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s recusal in antitrust cases involving their companies. Khan’s confirmation to the FTC and appointment to lead the agency presents one of the clearest threats of major regulatory action in the tech sector in years. By seeking to ...Read More

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has been banned from operating in the U.K. by the country’s markets regulator, in the latest sign of a growing crackdown on the crypto market around the world. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority said Saturday that Binance Markets Limited, the U.K. division of Binance, ...Read More

Massachusetts regulators are seeking to revoke Robinhood’s broker-dealer license to prevent the trading app’s operations in the state. William Galvin, the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, wrote in a Thursday filing Robinhood has “continued a pattern of aggressively inducing and enticing trading among ...Read More