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Crypto users across the EU spent months receiving genuine emails telling them their accounts had to move to a newly licensed company. Fraudsters have started sending the same emails, and UK holders on EU platforms are getting them too.
The SEC is advancing an exemption that would let listed shares trade on a blockchain at any hour. It changes when you can trade, not what you own, and UK investors are nowhere near it.
Trump and the heads of the SEC and CFTC are due to meet crypto executives at the White House on 19 August, with the industry's biggest legislative priority now given roughly a 10% chance of passing this year. Here's what the bill would actually settle.
From 1 October, crypto ATMs are banned in Hawaii, joining Minnesota, Tennessee and Indiana. Here is how the scams these machines get used for actually work, and why UK readers should know the machines were never legal here in the first place.
Ireland is drawing up anti-money-laundering standards that would treat crypto arriving from a wallet you control differently from crypto arriving from another exchange. Here's what that looks like at the withdrawal screen, and how much of it already applies in the UK.
Binance says it will stop processing transactions involving 16 platforms, 11 of them newly added after the EU's latest Russia sanctions package. HTX is the biggest name on the list, and the difference between a blocked route and a frozen balance matters.
The regulator and the exchange are reportedly in settlement talks over crypto promotions aimed at UK residents. The claim at the centre of it is a single test purchase made from a UK IP address.
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