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Witnesses Fault ‘Regulation by Enforcement’ of Digital Assets at Congressional Hearing
Blockchain // February 11, 2025

At a subcommittee hearing on the current state and future potential of digital assets, lawmakers and witnesses from the crypto and payments spheres — including PayPal — cautioned against a policy of what was repeatedly referred to as regulation by enforcement. And, they said, for...

SEC Pauses Binance Prosecution Amid New Crypto Landscape
Legal & Regulation // February 11, 2025

The SEC reportedly wants to put its case against the world’s biggest crypto exchange on hold. That’s because the financial regulator wants to wait as the Trump administration develops a digital asset framework, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Feb. 11), citing a court filing by the...

Report: UK Orders Apple to Allow Access to User Data
Mobile Commerce // February 07, 2025

Apple is reportedly facing an order from British authorities to give the government a way to access global user data stored in its cloud services. The authorities asked the tech giant in January, in an undisclosed order, to remove the encryption it uses to secure the...

How US Stablecoin Regulation Could Change the Game for Global Payments
Blockchain // February 07, 2025

Businesses hate slow and expensive international payments. But traditionally, firms haven’t had much choice but to accept the status quo of correspondent banks and their corresponding fees. Stablecoins, digital assets tied to real-world money like the U.S. dollar, potentially promise to change that — as...

Interviews & Exclusives
Big Tech’s AI Gatekeepers Could Draw Regulatory Scrutiny

August 20, 2026
Watch more: TechREG Talks With Anant Raut The legal architecture governing software rests on a useful assumption: However sophisticated the technology becomes, somewhere behind it sits a person or company responsible for the consequential decision. Agentic artificial intelligence, however, is beginning to put distance between those two things. “Agents don’t just execute decisions. They can […]

Witnesses Fault ‘Regulation by Enforcement’ of Digital Assets at Congressional Hearing

February 11, 2025
At a subcommittee hearing on the current state and future potential of digital assets, lawmakers and witnesses from the crypto and payments spheres — including PayPal — cautioned against a...

Crypto’s Three Priorities for 2024: Interoperability, Acceptance, Regulation

July 04, 2024
Halfway through 2024, and the cryptocurrency and blockchain space finds itself at a critical juncture.  It is the same critical juncture, or at least one strikingly similar, that the crypto...

CBDC Scrutiny Underscores Role of Compliance in Scaling Digital Innovations

May 29, 2024
The technology for central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) already exists. And as dozens of countries around the world have proven, in less time than it took to read this sentence,...

Quick Reads
SEC Pauses Binance Prosecution Amid New Crypto Landscape

February 11, 2025
The SEC reportedly wants to put its case against the world’s biggest crypto exchange on hold. That’s because the financial regulator wants to wait as the Trump administration develops a digital asset framework, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Feb. 11), citing a court filing by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the report, the […]

Report: UK Orders Apple to Allow Access to User Data

February 07, 2025
Apple is reportedly facing an order from British authorities to give the government a way to access global user data stored in its cloud services. The authorities asked the tech giant...

Meta to Appeal Against $831 Million EU Antitrust Fine

January 29, 2025
Meta says it will fight a $831 million fine levied against the tech giant by the European Union. A company spokesperson told Bloomberg News on Wednesday (Jan. 29) that Meta...

Crypto Exchange KuCoin to Exit US Amid Resolution of Lawsuit

January 27, 2025
Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin will exit the U.S. market for at least two years after its operator, Seychelles-based Peken Global Limited, pleaded guilty Monday (Jan. 27) to one count of operating an...