UK Parliament Opens Inquiry Into Crypto Banking Barriers
The probe lands weeks after the UK published its new crypto framework and days into a Labour government, putting bank de-risking squarely on the legislative agenda.
Executive and legislative crypto policy — central bank stances, country-level rules, and CBDC rollouts.
The probe lands weeks after the UK published its new crypto framework and days into a Labour government, putting bank de-risking squarely on the legislative agenda.
A cross-party group chaired by Lord Vaizey and Labour MP Josan will spend six weeks gathering evidence on UK banks refusing crypto firms accounts and blocking transfers, with a report due to…
Patrick Witt's deferral keeps the White House's point person on the Senate's crypto market-structure bill in place through the push, signaling continued executive-branch engagement with the Clarity…
The compromise bans federal officials from personally profiting off crypto while in office, removing the last political blocker on the bill's march toward a Senate floor vote in early August.
The 322-year-old exchange is rewriting the rules of a market that closes at 4:30 p.m. London time, betting that round-the-clock access is now table stakes for capital.
The ethics clause was the last unresolved thread in a months-long negotiation over a market-structure and stablecoin framework; Senate floor action could come within days.
An agreed ethics package from the White House is the first concrete signal that market-structure legislation is moving past the standoff that stalled the bill through summer.
Without a Senate floor vote before the August 7 recess, the window closes on the first comprehensive federal framework for crypto, with consumer protections and an FTX-style loophole fix still…
The trust would trade on Nasdaq under generic listing standards, putting Worldcoin alongside Solana, XRP, and Litecoin in the queue of single-asset altcoin ETF applications now in front of the…
A 50% tariff across a broad Canadian import basket is an order of magnitude above the existing schedule and lands with the US-Canada-Mexico review still unresolved, putting risk assets on notice.
A 50% blanket rate that overrides USMCA on a wide range of Canadian exports is the kind of cross-border escalation markets have not priced since the early-2018 steel fight.
Months of bipartisan work on presidential digital-asset conflict-of-interest rules now hinge on a single closed-door meeting, and the clock on market-structure legislation is the real casualty.
The $7,600 ceiling is tiny in dollar terms, but pairing crypto penalties with drunk-driving sends a clear signal to the five exchanges still in the licensing queue.
The SPR is now at its thinnest since Reagan's first term, and the next refill decision is the open question for crude traders and inflation watchers.
Lagos is moving from ad-hoc enforcement to a single inter-agency table, a structural shift every Africa-focused crypto desk will read closely.
The penalty is small, but it lands ahead of Vietnam's regulated digital asset market launch and turns unlicensed platforms into a directly enforced retail offense in Asia's fourth-largest adoption…
A former New York governor on a crypto exchange board is the kind of political-credibility hire exchanges make when they want Washington access, and OKX is openly chasing Coinbase's U.S. footprint.
A round-number pump milestone has a way of focusing consumer attention on inflation; with Brent already pricing the conflict, the political pressure on the Fed shifts.
The threat comes as the US keeps a carrier group in the region and crude trades near multi-month highs, sharpening the risk-off read across equities, gold, and crypto.
The bill cleared the House and Senate Banking, but a Warren-led push for enforceable crypto ethics language tied to Trump's $1.4B disclosure has frozen floor math, with the August recess narrowing…