Binance
Recent News About Binance
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Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, said that Bitcoin is increasingly being considered an asset for mortgages and predicted it may soon surpass homeownership as a primary aspiration.
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The founder of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is accusing Washington, D.C.-based law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan of representing him while having a conflict of interest.
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Nearly one million U.S. users engaged with the apps of Bybit, Bitget, and OKX in August 2024, despite these platforms explicitly prohibiting U.S.-based trading due to regulatory restrictions.
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Roman Sterlingov, a dual Russian-Swedish national, has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison for his role in operating Bitcoin Fog, a notorious cryptocurrency "mixer" that facilitated the laundering of over $400 million in illicit funds.
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Changpeng Zhao, founder and former CEO of Binance, addressed the ongoing issue in the United States regarding the classification of cryptocurrency.
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Irina Heaver, a crypto lawyer at NeosLegal, said that laws and compliance standards are significantly "behind the technology" by 15 to 20 years.
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On October 18, Attorney General John Formella joined a bipartisan group of seventeen other state attorneys general in urging the Biden Administration to designate U.S. citizen Tigran Gambaryan as a hostage under the Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act.
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On October 23, the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) officially withdrew all charges against Binance Holdings executive Tigran Gambaryan, who had been detained since February 2024.
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Binance Co-founder and Former CEO Changpeng Zhao's (CZ) release from prison has been welcomed by members of the crypto community, who took to X to express their support for the crypto mogul.
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The detention of Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) president Joe Ajaero at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport has intensified criticism of National Security Advisor Nuhu Ribadu, who ordered the arrest. Ribadu, already under fire for detaining U.S. citizen Tigran Gambaryan and other figures, is now facing widespread accusations of abusing his power to stifle dissent.
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Six months after his arrest on disputed money laundering charges, former IRS crypto investigator Tigran Gambaryan remains detained in Nigeria, with concerns mounting over his declining health.
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The clamor for U.S. intervention in the suspected Nigerian kidnapping of a California-raised Binance crypto executive is escalating in a case wrought with irony.
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Richard Teng, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, stated that American regulatory agencies have acknowledged the efforts Binance has made to enhance its compliance. Teng assumed the role of CEO in November as part of a settlement with the U.S. government to resolve historical compliance issues associated with Binance.
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Binance was wrong in not complying with regulations, but the enforcement and consequences it faced highlight a double standard in the financial industry, where traditional institutions often engage in worse practices but face milder repercussions, and the effectiveness of such regulations in truly preventing illicit finance is questionable.
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France implemented a regulatory framework for digital assets in 2019 through the PACTE law, establishing its financial regulator, the AMF, as the supervisory authority of virtual tokens and digital asset service providers (DASP), Adan reported.
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On Thursday, September 21, 2023, Binance Holdings and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), submitted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit initiated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The filing, made to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, contends that the SEC had overstepped its jurisdiction in the case. The filing argues that the regulatory agency didn't offer clear cryptocurrency sector guidelines, making their legal action unwarranted.
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Binance Labs, the venture capital arm of the largest crypto exchange in the world, has announced an investment in Pendle Finance, a tokenized yield protocol. Yi He, the head of Binance Labs, and Yibo Ling, the chief business officer of Binance Labs, have said that Binance Labs invests prudently in projects that support Binance's vision of the future of decentralized finance.
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Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, is considering a full withdrawal from Russia. The announcement comes days after the crypto giant removed sanctioned Russian banks from its peer-to-peer service.
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Erin Fracolli, the Global Head of Intelligence and Investigations at Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, and Erin West, a deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, spoke on a recent episode of the Crossing the Chain podcast about the importance of collaboration between law enforcement and crypto companies. Fracolli and West said that collaboration is key both in assisting victims of scams and in proactively identifying and disrupting criminal networks.
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After the Department of Justice decided not to pursue a campaign finance charge against former crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, a Bitcoin.com analyst raised concerns about double standards in federal agencies’ approach to policing the crypto industry.