Dec 14, 20221 min read
Sam Bankman-Fried arrested
Founder and former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has been arrested in the Bahamas after a sealed indictment containing criminal...
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Dec 9, 20223 min read
ASIC Chair briefs Parliament on FTX fallout
The Chairman of ASIC, Mr Joe Longo, appeared before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Institutions (the...
Dec 9, 20222 min read
Kiwis consult on the future of money
New Zealand's central bank (the RBNZ) has launched a consultation on the future money focusing on the risks and opportunities posed by...
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ASIC sues Block Earner for alleged unlicensed conduct over crypto-asset based products
ASIC, the corporate regulator, has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against a crypto fintech company, Block Earner, for...
Nov 18, 20224 min read
The Timeline of FTX's Collapse
The fall of FTX, a Bahamas based crypto exchange that was once the third largest in the world, was shocking and has been closely watched...
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Hong Kong strives to regain Asia's crypto crown
At the opening of Hong Kong's flagship Fintech conference last month, the city's officials issued a policy statement on virtual assets,...
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Nov 4, 20222 min read
Debate heats up over digital assets industry standards
CEO and co-founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has released a draft set of possible digital asset industry standards that could be enacted...
Nov 3, 20223 min read
Singapore consults on retail crypto and stablecoin regulations
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has proposed new measures regulating cryptocurrency exchanges and retail crypto offerings as...
Oct 28, 20222 min read
ASIC targets Qoin in latest crypto enforcement move
ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings alleging unlicensed conduct and false, misleading or deceptive representations relating to a...
Oct 26, 20225 min read
Do you need a token dealing policy? Managing insider trading, fraud and conflicts risk
The past year has seen two high profile incidents involving buying or selling crypto-assets (tokens and NFTs) based on information...
Oct 24, 20223 min read
No Boredom (or yacht clubs) as Singapore High Court confirms NFTs are property
In a ground-breaking judgment, the Singapore High Court confirmed that NFTs have attributes of property, and the Court has jurisdiction...
Oct 19, 20222 min read
Crypto Target Market Determinations Targeted by ASIC
On Monday, ASIC announced that it had made interim stop orders preventing Holon Investments Australia Limited (Holon) from offering or...
Oct 17, 20222 min read
Tornado Cash winds pick up: Coin Center sues OFAC over privacy concerns
Coin Center - a crypto policy not-for-profit organisation - has brought proceedings against the US Treasury Department's Office of...
Oct 14, 20222 min read
Coinbase wins Singapore licence approval
Coinbase, the largest crypto exchange in the United States, announced on Monday that it has received in-principal approval for a Major...
Oct 7, 20223 min read
EU releases full MiCA text: Are NFTs in or out?
Members of the European Council have approved the full text of the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA), which will shape the...
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