The New York Stock Exchange teamed up with retail broker Charles Schwab Corp (SCHW.N) and market maker Citadel Securities on Monday to ask the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw two recently proposed rules aimed at revamping how stocks trade. The move represents a coordinated ...Read More

In the wake of the collapse of FTX and subsequent charges filed against the company and some of its executives, regulators are cracking down on cryptocurrency markets. In my experience as the founder of a compliance executive search firm, once the SEC ramps up ...Read More

U.S. broker-dealers and investment advisers that deal in crypto will get extra scrutiny from Securities and Exchange Commission examiners this year, according to the agency’s annual examination priorities announced Tuesday. The SEC-registered investment firms offering or advising about cryptocurrencies will be a focus. The regulator will ...Read More

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to sue stablecoin issuer Paxos, which is behind the Pax dollar (USDP) and Binance USD (BUSD) tokens, over the latter stablecoin, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. An SEC spokesperson told CoinDesk the commission does not ...Read More

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $30 million settlement with the cryptocurrency platform Kraken that will force it to unwind a program offering investment returns to US users who committed their digital assets to the company. That practice, known as “staking,” reflected ...Read More

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to criminal charges Tuesday and is set to face a trial in October, which is expected to be one most high-profile white collar fraud trials in recent years. Bankman-Fried appeared in US District Court in New York ...Read More

Alameda Research ex-CEO Caroline Ellison has retained a former top cryptocurrency regulator for the US Securities and Exchange Commission as the federal investigation into the downfall of FTX continues. Bloomberg first reported that Ellison hired Stephanie Avakian, chair of the securities and financial services department at ...Read More