Federal prosecutors want former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to spend three years in prison. The one-time head of the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform deserves this sentence, the Department of Justice said Tuesday (April 23), because he willfully violated U.S. laws governing crypto to further Binance’s growth. “Zhao and Binance...
A German financial regulator has reportedly fined Commerzbank $1.5 million for anti-money laundering violations. BaFin said Monday (April 11) that the bank failed to update customer data on time and did not provide sufficient security measures, Reuters reported. This, the report added, led to inadequate due diligence in three cases,...
A Binance executive who fled Nigerian custody last month has reportedly been found in Kenya. Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan who is the cryptocurrency giant’s regional manager for Africa, escaped after weeks of being held in Nigeria along with a second executive. He has since been located in Kenya and is facing...
Each year, money launders funnel $2 trillion in ill-gotten gains into the financial system. And a lot of that money travels by air, in cash, often in people’s suitcases, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (April 21). The report cited figures from the United...
November 22, 2023
Cryptocurrency exchanges play a vital role in the digital asset ecosystem. They facilitate the buying, selling, trading, transferring, and storing of both individual and institutional holdings of the more than 20,000 crypto tokens in circulation. The role they play, however, is rarely without governmental scrutiny and increasingly legal consequences. From the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission […]
March 14, 2023
The year 2022 was one of the most tumultuous in the cryptocurrency industry’s brief history. It was a record year for another reason, too, as illicit crypto transactions hit a...
July 06, 2022
Where consumers once had to wait for payments to post, they now expect their money to move instantly between accounts. Maximum money mobility is the new imperative of a digital-first...
March 23, 2022
Digital identities are becoming more prevalent as awareness of their security and convenience grows, and they are expanding into new use cases like anti-money laundering (AML). This crime has ballooned...
April 29, 2024
Venezuela is reportedly expected to increase its use of cryptocurrency when the United States reimposes oil sanctions on the country beginning June 1. A Venezuelan opposition politician, Leopoldo Lopez, and a national security leader at New York-based blockchain data firm Chainalysis, Kristofer Doucette, released a report Monday (April 29) saying that democratic governments should set up structures to […]
April 24, 2024
Federal prosecutors want former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to spend three years in prison. The one-time head of the world’s largest cryptocurrency platform deserves this sentence, the Department of Justice said Tuesday (April 23),...
April 22, 2024
A German financial regulator has reportedly fined Commerzbank $1.5 million for anti-money laundering violations. BaFin said Monday (April 11) that the bank failed to update customer data on time and did not provide sufficient security...
April 22, 2024
A Binance executive who fled Nigerian custody last month has reportedly been found in Kenya. Nadeem Anjarwalla, a British-Kenyan who is the cryptocurrency giant’s regional manager for Africa, escaped after weeks of being held...
