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SEC Crypto Roundtable Questions Whether Americans Can Transact Without Surrendering Privacy

The SEC is hosting a task force roundtable on the future of crypto privacy, organized by pro-crypto Commissioner Hester Pierce.…

December 16, 2025

Insider Drains $345,014 From Accounts Within Weeks of Joining US Lender – Here’s How

A former employee at a US lender will spend more than two years behind bars for taking hundreds of thousands…

December 14, 2025

US Bank Regulator Allows Five Digital Asset Firms To Launch Trust Banks

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has conditionally approved national trust bank charters for five firms focused…

December 14, 2025

Bank Employee Fakes Customers’ Signatures, Withdraws Over $38,000 From Accounts: Federal Reserve

A US bank employee is being banned from working in the financial industry after he allegedly forged customer signatures to…

December 14, 2025

Major US Bank Paying $33,000,000 To Settle Lawsuit Accusing Lender of Knowingly Facilitating Consumer Fraud

A US banking giant has agreed to pay tens of millions of dollars to settle allegations that it knowingly facilitated…

December 13, 2025

State of Texas Officially Launches New Crypto Reserve With $5,000,000 Bitcoin Purchase: Report

The second-largest US state by population has launched a new crypto reserve and seeded it with millions of dollars in…

December 10, 2025

US Banks Can Let Customers Trade Bitcoin and Crypto With No Strings Attached, Says Top Regulator

A top US bank regulator says lenders can facilitate crypto transactions on behalf of their customers without having to hold…

December 10, 2025

CFTC Launches Crypto Pilot Program Greenlighting Use of Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDC as Collateral in Derivatives Markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is rolling out a pilot program that clears the way for certain digital assets including…

December 9, 2025

$69,040 Drained From Five Customers at Major US Bank, FDIC Blames Employee for “Unsafe or Unsound Banking Practices’

A Truist Bank employee allegedly manipulated the system to steal a pile of cash from the bank's customers without their…

December 5, 2025

Morgan Stanley Ordered To Pay $117,400,000 Fine for Dividend Tax Evasion Scandal

Dutch authorities are issuing a financial penalty against Morgan Stanley after concluding a long-running investigation into the bank’s handling of…

December 4, 2025