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News/crime
Faruk Fatih Ozer, the former boss of failed Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex, has started a lengthy jail sentence after he was found guilty of defrauding investors in a multimillion dollar fraud.
03 April 2024
News/regulation
The governments of the UK and US have signed what they claim is the first international bilateral agreement to regulate the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) models.
02 April 2024
News/people
Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $8 billion from customers of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange he founded.
28 March 2024
News/crypto
Worldcoin, the crypto biometric project fronted by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, has been temporarily banned in Portugal over data privacy concerns.
27 March 2024
News/payments
After nearly 20 years of litigation, Visa and Mastercard have reached a settlement with US merchants lowering and capping credit card interchange rates in a deal that could save the merchants $30 billion over five years.
26 March 2024
The US government has imposed sanctions on 13 fintechs for offering crypto-based services to Russian firms looking to evade the economic restrictions in place since the outbreak of war in Ukraine.
A Binance executive detained by Nigerian authorities last month has escaped, according to local media reports. Meanwhile, the West African country has charged the cryptocurrency exchange with a host of tax evasion charges.
25 March 2024
The US has filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing the firm of monopolising the smartphone market through a host of actions, including the blocking of third-party apps from offering contactless payments.
21 March 2024
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed an amended lawsuit against crypto firm Gemini and Digital Currency Group, alleging that nearly quarter of a million investors were defrauded out of more than $3 billion, rather than the $1 billion claimed in the initial suit.
09 February 2024
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a customer advisory warning to the public to keep an eye out for artificial intelligence (AI) scams.
26 January 2024
The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has issued an amber alert to prevent further money laundering in the art storage sector.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged JP Morgan $18 million for obstructing clients and brokerage customers from reporting breaches of law to regulatory authorities. The payments giant has agreed to pay the penalty charge.
19 January 2024
Morgan Stanley have agreed to pay $249 million to settle fraud charges and for failing to enforce information barriers in connection with the bank's block trading practices.
12 January 2024
News/security
Revolut is facing a class action lawsuit in Illinois alleging the UK fintech giant has unlawfully collected, used and stored customers' biometric data.
10 January 2024
The US Department of Justice is cracking down on fraud networks that steal money from consumer bank accounts and then use 'microtransactions' to hide their activity.
19 December 2023
Cristiano Ronaldo has been hit with a $1 billion-plus class action lawsuit over his promotion of an NFT collection with controversial crypto exchange Binance.
29 November 2023
UK companies are failing to keep up with the requirements for sanction-screening prospective clients despite the high level of global geopolitical unrest, according to a recently published survey.
23 November 2023
The imminent introduction of the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will force sell-side firms to make significant changes to their third party risk management software and strategies, suggests a recently published survey.
22 November 2023
Binance has agreed to pay $4.3 billion to settle a long-running investigation by the US Department of Justice, with the crypto exchange's founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao also stepping down as CEO and pleading guilty to violating anti-money laundering requirements.
21 November 2023
Celsius Network has received approval from a New York judge for a restructuring plan that will repay customers’ assets through new company owned by Celsius creditors and managed by Fahrenheit.
10 November 2023
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