Tag: Securities

Bank of Korea Seeks to Deploy Blockchain in Bond Market: Report

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

Global central banks are increasingly looking at blockchain technology as a tool to make interbanking processes more efficient and transparent.Following the World Bank’s...

Crypto Firms Should Get Behind Peirce’s Safe Harbor Proposal, Even if It’s Unlikely to Become Law

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

Carol Van Cleef is Chair of the Blockchain and Digital Assets Team at the law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings. Addison Yang is...

Currency.com Accused of Exploiting KYC to Withhold Customer Funds

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Transaction (KYT) are ostensibly deployed by exchanges to combat money laundering. In practice,...

Preston Byrne: Peirce’s Safe Harbor Proposal Would Be Hilarious If It Weren’t So Serious

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

Preston Byrne, a columnist for CoinDesk's new opinion section, is an attorney at Byrne & Storm, where he advises cryptocurrency miners, decentralized protocol...

Hester Peirce: Tell Me How to Improve My Safe Harbor Proposal

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

Hester Peirce is a Commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The views here are her own and do not necessarily reflect...

Regulatory Roundup: Trump’s Cryptocurrency Proposals, IRS Changes Rule, China Quarantines Cash

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

In this roundup, we cover numerous cryptocurrency regulatory developments in the U.S., including President Trump’s crypto proposals, testimonies by the...

Central Bank of China Pumps 300 Billion Yuan Into Financial System, Cuts Loan Rates

BlockchainFebruary 18, 2020

The Chinese government has taken multiple steps so far to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus epidemic, including interest...

Cannacurio: Active Distribution Licenses In 2019 By State

CannabisFebruary 17, 2020

In some ways cannabis distribution serves as a business-to-business delivery license. In the few states that have these licenses, they serve as the...

TON Developers Weigh in on Telegram’s Case with SEC

BlockchainFebruary 17, 2020

The case between the mobile messaging platform Telegram and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has continued to heat up since...