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Bank of Korea surveys 31 financial firms on crypto risks
The central bank is asking banks and brokerages how exchange hacks, a prolonged downturn and losses elsewhere could affect their crypto exposure.
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Brazil's crypto licensing window closes with about 40 applicants
Roughly 40 institutions sought authorization from the Central Bank of Brazil by the October 30 deadline, far below expectations of 150 to 200.
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Crypto markets face midterms, data and earnings-packed week
Bitcoin held near $77,800 as traders tracked the November 3 U.S. midterms, ETF flows, security concerns and a heavy economic calendar.
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Texas brothers get 15 years for $8 million crypto kidnapping
Raymond and Isiah Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than nine hours and forced the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto.
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Lagarde exits ECB as Europe's tokenized finance blueprint remains unsettled
Christine Lagarde will step down as ECB president in February 2027 while the central bank continues deliberating how to structure Europe's tokenized financial
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SEC charges two companies in $130 million crypto fraud scheme
False SEC filings helped BG Wealth and DSJ Exchange solicit investments from tens of thousands of retail investors across multiple states.
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Utah files criminal charges against Kalshi and its two top executives
A 14-count filing accuses Kalshi, CEO Tarek Mansour and COO Luana Lopes Lara of promoting online gambling after a state agent placed 12 sports wagers.
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CFTC Chair Selig raises questions about AI agents in crypto markets
The CFTC chairman outlined regulatory challenges posed by autonomous AI managing assets and trading on blockchain networks.
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Itaú tells Brazil's central bank it operates as crypto provider
The country's largest bank filed a formal communication covering crypto trading and custody three days before the Oct. 30 deadline for incumbent lenders.
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Lagarde to step down as ECB president early, on February 7, 2027
Lagarde will leave roughly eight months before her mandate expires, opening a succession race that will shape the bank's stance on crypto and the digital euro.
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Treasury sanctions 11 tied to North Korean IT worker crypto network
OFAC designated 10 people and one entity, including two Russian intermediaries, in a crackdown on Pyongyang's fake IT workforce.
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HTX agrees to leave UK in settlement with FCA
The exchange's Panama-registered entity has promised the High Court it will stop breaching UK financial promotion rules, ending the regulator's first case of
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Hong Kong approves 24/7 secondary trading for two tokenised money-market funds
The SFC cleared round-the-clock secondary trading of ChinaAMC's Hong Kong- and US-dollar digital money-market funds on a licensed virtual-asset platform.
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Phantom rolls out Kalshi prediction markets to eligible US users
The wallet's new Predict tab gives eligible US users access to CFTC-regulated event contracts through Kalshi, subject to state limits.
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Bessent outlines Treasury role in crypto rules after CLARITY Act stalls
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said federal agencies could coordinate on crypto rules after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act.
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Fed opens two-day meeting as crypto traders brace for rate decision
Markets expect the Fed to hold rates steady, while on-chain data shows bitcoin whales taking profits ahead of the announcement.
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Itaú becomes first Brazilian bank to formalize crypto trading
Brazil's largest private bank submitted its cryptocurrency notification to regulators ahead of the October 30 deadline.
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Discord to make large public server chats searchable, with opt-out
The platform will create web pages for Discoverable Servers and later allow search engines to index eligible messages, while offering privacy controls.
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Midterms could stall CLARITY Act, TD Cowen warns
TD Cowen sees a Democratic sweep as the worst outcome for crypto policy, while industry spending faces a ballot-box test.
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Polymarket faces renewed CFTC scrutiny over 2022 settlement terms
Regulators are investigating whether the prediction market platform complied with restrictions on US user access established in a $1.4 million settlement.
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Polymarket reviews dozens of midterm election bets for possible abuse
The prediction market has referred at least two cases to the CFTC as it monitors 506 election markets ahead of the Nov. 3 vote, according to NPR.
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Coinbase Ireland fined €3.25m over safeguarding and outsourcing failures
Ireland's central bank announced an agreed penalty against Coinbase's e-money unit for safeguarding and outsourcing breaches, subject to High Court confirmation.
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Bank of Israel rejects Netanyahu's crypto sanctions-evasion plan
Israel's central bank said cryptocurrencies cannot bypass international sanctions, rejecting the prime minister's proposal ahead of elections.
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FCA consults on crypto crime guidance covering wallet checks and analytics
The non-binding proposals set out good and poor practice for customer checks, blockchain analytics and the Travel Rule, with responses due by 24 December.
