Tassat blamed COVID-19 and leadership changes for its long-delayed bitcoin derivatives contract listing.
The CFTC alleged four individuals stole close to $1 million from customers by promising returns from a bitcoin trading scheme.
The federal regulator has approved LedgerX’s amended registration to offer fully collateralized futures and options products.
The regulatory body deemed the exchange dormant because it had no trading activity in the three years following its registration with the CFTC.
Publicly traded brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay multi-million dollar penalties to the SEC, Finra and CFTC for failure to flag suspicious transactions and lapses in AML compliance.
Perfection shouldn’t be the enemy of good when it comes to regulating the cryptocurrency space, said Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert.
The commission’s technology advisory committee made several presentations on various blockchain applications including CBDCs and digital tokens during a four-hour-long remote meeting last Thursday.
The financial regulators both found fault with Abra offering security-based swaps without first checking to see whether investors were eligble.
The U.S. commodities regulator has a four-year plan for fostering responsible innovations in the crypto asset space.
ErisX is launching physically settled ether futures contracts, it announced Monday.
The CFTC alleged three individuals and affiliated entities defrauded crypto and binary options investors out of $20 million over 5 years.
CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz, who sponsored the Technology Advisory Committee and advocated for self regulation in the crypto industry, will leave his post by late October.
The CFTC has approved Bitnomial Exchange to offer margined bitcoin futures and options contracts.
The CFTC alleged Florida resident Alan Friedland defrauded investors out of $1.6 million, promising returns through his “Compcoin” token and an algorithmic trading software which never materialized.
The CFTC created formal guidance for when one party has “delivered” crypto assets to another, settling a long-standing question around the issue.