The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Coinbase's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings in the SEC's case against the exchange, allowing the SEC to proceed with its lawsuit. The SEC alleges that the Coinbase operates as an unregistered exchange, broker and clearing agency.
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The CFTC sued a centralized digital asset exchange for dealing in off-exchange commodity derivatives without proper registration or compliance with U.S. regulations.
The CFTC proposed amendments to allow foreign trade boards ("FBOTs") to offer direct trading access to U.S.-based introducing broker participants and to establish a process for FBOTs to request revocation of their registration.
The DOJ, OFAC, FinCEN and the CFTC settled enforcement actions against Binance, its CEO and former CCO. The coordinated settlements addressed charges against the digital asset exchange for CFTC registration failures and for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and International Emergency Economic Powers Act sanctions programs.
The SEC charged an online crypto asset trading platform for failing to register with the SEC as an exchange, as a clearing agency and as a broker-dealer of crypto asset securities.