Thirty-nine US state bankers associations announced BankChain Alliance on 25 August 2026, an industry-owned blockchain network targeting a 2027 launch that the Alliance says will l...
Read article →On 26 August 2026, OFAC designated Italy-based data-hosting association Autistici Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224, alongside Palest...
Read article →On 7 August 2026, OFAC sanctioned two Iran-based crypto exchanges, Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether, and a UAE-based network organiser, Siavash Kayvanpour, that Treasury says helpe...
Read article →In its largest single Iran action to date, the US Treasury has for the first time named digital assets as a sanctionable sector of Iran's economy. The sweep designates a cyber grou...
Read article →The US Justice Department has secured a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance over alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, one of the larges...
Read article →The US CFTC has proposed changes to registration rules for commodity pool operators (CPOs) and commodity trading advisors (CTAs), set out in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking amendin...
Read article →The US SEC has proposed a rulebook called "Regulation Crypto Assets" that would create a tailored securities offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto asset...
Read article →The OCC has granted World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval to organise as an uninsured national trust bank for the USD1 stablecoin, attaching seven conditions...
Read article →FinCEN has ordered UBS Financial Services to pay $125 million, its largest broker dealer penalty for Bank Secrecy Act violations, after the firm admitted willfully failing to monit...
Read article →The SEC has cancelled the 14 August open meeting at which it was to consider proposing a tailored offering regime for certain crypto assets, according to a Sunshine Act notice. The...
Read article →SEC issued a no-action letter letting Franklin Templeton’s U.S. registered funds hold shares of its blockchain-based OnChain money fund — the BENJI token (FOBXX) &mdash...
Read article →New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin has written to Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and Gemini Titan, launching an investigation into whether the platforms' advertising in the ci...
Read article →The OCC's Comptroller has signalled that digital-asset firms should have a route to a national bank charter — but it is a statement of posture, not a rule change, and the normal ch...
Read article →On 11 August 2026, the US Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a definitive final rule permanently removing Beneficial Ownership Inform...
Read article →The SEC has charged adviser Adit Ventures, its CEO Eric Munson, and affiliated general partners over undisclosed principal markups and the unauthorised pledging of client shares in...
Read article →With U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune filing cloture on H.R. 3633 in the early hours of 8 August 2026, Washington officially set the stage for a critical legislative showdown...
Read article →Wise Group's shares fell after the US OCC rejected its national trust bank charter application, citing significant supervisory and compliance concerns and AML/CFT deficiencies that...
Read article →US financial regulators have proposed a rewrite of the rules governing bank anti-money laundering programmes, raising the legal standard from one that is merely "reasonably designe...
Read article →The United States' revised Basel III proposal would apply a capital charge to committed credit lines that a bank can cancel at any time without condition, bringing a capital cost t...
Read article →The United States' revised Basel III proposal largely bypasses one of the Basel Committee's most significant post-crisis reforms: the output floor.
Read article →A digital-asset market-structure bill has cleared the US Senate Banking Committee, which voted 15-9 on 14 May 2026 to advance the measure after months of negotiation.
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