The derivatives regulator is proposing two rules meant to cover the waterfront of crypto activity and exchanges, as long as it's not simple, direct trading.
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The CFTC is seeking public comment on a framework that would create a new federal license for crypto exchanges, with leverage offers as the trigger for oversight.
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FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department, is planning to kill two crypto surveillance proposals that spent years hanging over self-custody and privacy tools without ever becoming law. One would have required banks and money transmi…
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The CFTC launched rulemaking on leveraged and margined retail crypto trading, proposing Regulation CTX and CAM and a new "crypto asset market" exchange.
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FinCEN withdrew the 2020 unhosted wallet reporting proposal and its 2023 finding that crypto mixing is a primary money laundering concern. The agency said it will keep monitoring mixers and may act again