New UK Law Recognizes Crypto Trading as Regulated Financial Activity

The amended Financial Services and Markets Bill enables the regulation of digital assets to support their safe adoption in the UK.

• 2023-06-30
• Royal Assent Financial Services digital assets cryptocurrency financial regulation the United Kingdom King Charles

Republicans Pummel SEC’s Gary Gensler Over Crypto Crackdown

WASHINGTON—Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler defended his agency’s crackdown on cryptocurrency markets, saying that he had never seen an industry so routinely break securities laws. “I’ve been around finance for 40 years, in one way or the other,” Mr. Gensler said in a five-hour hearing Tuesday before the House Financial Services Committee. “I’ve never seen a field that is so noncompliant with laws written by Congress and confirmed over and over again by the courts.”

• 2023-04-19
• Gary Gensler the SEC Financial Services Committee FINANCIAL REGULATION SEC

SEC Sues Bittrex Crypto Exchange and Former CEO

Regulators allege the company listed assets that required it to register and follow investor-protection rules.

• 2023-04-17
• Bittrex Inc. Bittrex digital assets securities exchange Bittrex Global GmbH SEC FINANCIAL REGULATION