US and Iran near agreement that could reopen Strait of…
A deal signed today would ease one of the most consequential geopolitical chokepoints for global oil supply, with direct read-through to energy prices and risk assets.
Crypto regulation worldwide — government policy, court rulings, compliance frameworks, tax rules, and enforcement actions.
A deal signed today would ease one of the most consequential geopolitical chokepoints for global oil supply, with direct read-through to energy prices and risk assets.
Warsh's first FOMC appearance traded Powell's plain-English doctrine for political register and boardroom jargon — and he refused to draw a timeline for easing, undercutting the pre-appointment read…
If confirmed, the order would freeze Binance out of the bloc's harmonized EU crypto regime on a single national node — the kind of political signal other MiCA supervisors now have to react to.
The $1.8B scheme ran 2020-2022 on fake 0.5%-1% daily mining returns — and lands one week after the FBI reported record $11.4B in crypto fraud losses for 2025.
The exchange argues the CFTC's decade-first nod to onshore perpetual contracts undercuts its own dominance in regulated US crypto derivatives — a turf fight with structural consequences for how…
The shutdown is small in dollar terms — aUSDT's $1.27M cap is a rounding error against USDT — but it continues Tether's pattern of pruning peripheral stablecoins to concentrate on its core dollar…
Three simultaneous suits, naming Coinbase and Robinhood affiliates, frame a direct challenge to CFTC federal preemption — and land a day after a Michigan court cleared the way for state-level…
The fight isn't over perpetuals themselves — it's over whether a regulated venue like CME gets first crack at the benchmark, with Duffy arguing Dodd-Frank makes the venue question settled law.
ECB opposition behind the scenes turned a routine licensing review into a political veto — and now leaves Binance with one remaining MiCA seat, in France, to keep serving the entire bloc.
The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
The agreement formalizes a revenue stream for Iran over one of the world's most critical oil transit chokepoints, with implications for shipping costs and sanctions enforcement.
With the stablecoin market at $320B and projected to hit $4T by 2030, Fidelity and State Street are racing to capture the reserve-management mandate the GENIUS Act just created.
Nine of 18 FOMC officials now project at least one rate hike this year, a shift that reframes the policy outlook from 'on hold' to 'next move may be up.'
The remark is short but the source is high-leverage: a sitting Fed Chair signalling openness to change is the kind of forward guidance markets reprice around.
The Fed's decision to stand pat keeps borrowing costs at their current range, signaling policymakers see no immediate case for either a cut or a hike given the present inflation and employment…
Abandoning forward guidance strips markets of their primary tool for pricing future rate moves, forcing traders back to meeting-by-meeting uncertainty not seen since the pre-Bernanke era.
Warsh's debut at the podium marks a leadership transition at the world's most influential central bank, with markets watching for any tonal shift in how the Fed communicates policy direction.
The levy doesn't touch peer-to-peer transfers directly — but it taxes buying, holding, and storing digital assets alike, and a16z's Miles Jennings warns it could drive builders out of the state.
A single policy announcement triggered one of the fastest large-cap erasures in recent memory, underscoring how sensitive equity markets remain to any Fed signal that deviates from consensus.
The move would unwind a long-standing sanctions tool and signals a potential shift in US-Iran relations with broad implications for oil markets and regional geopolitics.