may now limit betting on player injuries, war, terrorism and assassinations
@cur1ous.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe CFTC considers bets placed on prediction platforms as a forms of "swaps" trading. Under previous administrations, the agency "blocked ...platforms from listing broad categories of these event contracts." www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
The CFTC considers bets placed on prediction platforms as a forms of "swaps" trading. Under previous administrations, the agency "blocked ...platforms from listing broad categories of these event contracts." www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Trump Regulator Proposes New Rules on What’s Allowed on Prediction Markets
The CFTC provided clearer parameters around what bets are allowed on Kalshi and other platforms, but won’t ban certain contracts.
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"The funds moving through Binance to Iran-linked groups largely corresponded to payments from Chinese buyers of Iranian oil, part of a sanctions-busting trade that is controlled by the IRGC" Info from foreign law enforcement agencies #finreg #geopolitics w/gift link www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Iran Moved Billions Through Binance to Fund Regime—Continuing Into This Month
The crypto transactions took place despite repeated red flags. Binance says it has “zero-tolerance for illicit activity.”
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de Cos, Bank for International Settlements “Stablecoins attempt to import credibility from public money while operating outside the established settlement system” #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Stablecoins Are Private Money. That’s Why They’re a Risk to the Economy.
Financial innovations often lead to upheaval and instability. Despite new regulations, those risks persist with stablecoins.
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a selling point: "reshoring" crypto development from Abu Dhabi and Singapore #finreg www.wsj.com/opinion/digi...
Opinion | Digital Asset Rules Need Clarity
U.S. financial regulation sets the standard for the world. Congress needs to act to keep it that way.
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Access to Fedwire "a critical interbank payment system that handles more than $4 trillion in average daily fund transfers" + Wyoming offers a special type of state bank charter "geared toward crypto companies" www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System
The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.
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July '25 version of Clarity - banks "warned senators that some $6.6 trillion in deposits could be at risk of being siphoned out of the traditional financial system" #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
The Crypto CEO Who’s Become Enemy No. 1 on Wall Street
Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance.
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@cur1ous.bsky.social · 5mo ago"To banks, rewards on stablecoins from companies... that pay out 3.5% resemble high-yielding deposits—but without the regulations they face for holding customers’ cash" www.wsj.com/finance/regu... #finreg
"To banks, rewards on stablecoins from companies... that pay out 3.5% resemble high-yielding deposits—but without the regulations they face for holding customers’ cash" www.wsj.com/finance/regu... #finreg
Banks Cry Foul Over High-Yielding Tokens as Crypto Fight Simmers in Washington
The fight is one factor delaying the Senate Banking Committee effort to advance a bill defining crypto market rules.
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Clarity Act "If signed into law, the legislation will lead to the near-total deregulation of crypto, gutting almost all financial regulations and monitoring mechanisms that could place limits on the system." #finreg www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Crypto Chokehold
Trump’s return has vaulted pro-crypto interests into power. As they capture ever more Democrats, the political will to stop them is dwindling.
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“staff members … can make a judgment call on whether to accept them, assuming that all security features — a mountain-shaped foil hologram, some imprinted micro text, and the word “interagency” across the front of the pass in invisible ink — are all still visible” www.sfgate.com/national-par...
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
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In public, "buy, buy" - in private e-mails, "a pig," "a POS" The relationship between analysts and investment banks changed in 2003, when the SEC "required banks to separate their research and banking operations under... the Global Research Analyst Settlement." #finreg www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...
Opinion | The SEC May Make Wall Street Analysts Corrupt Again
Regulators end a settlement that stopped investment bankers from influencing researchers.
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“The ICO craze reached a peak in 2017 and 2018. Startups with no more than a white paper and no established product managed to draw in billions of dollars in ICO fundraising” www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
Exclusive | Coinbase Launches Platform for Digital Token Offerings
Blockchain startup Monad will be the first project to sell its token on the new platform.
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An interview with a light touch, considering what’s been reported recently www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
@cur1ous.bsky.social · 10mo ago“The pardon could also clear the way for Binance to return to the US market, which it was forced to exit as a condition of the DOJ settlement” #finreg #crypto www.wired.com/story/trump-...
"In all these times, the shape of the newly emerging regime could be seen only in retrospect" #neoliberalism www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
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In the beforetimes... "Crypto startups and exchanges complain that compliance with existing SEC rules is technically infeasible because digital assets are issued and traded differently than stocks and bonds" #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
SEC Ousts Top Litigator Who Battled With Crypto Giants
The agency, seeking to make peace with the crypto market, reassigned its head of litigation to a job in its information-technology office.
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“The pardon could also clear the way for Binance to return to the US market, which it was forced to exit as a condition of the DOJ settlement” #finreg #crypto www.wired.com/story/trump-...
‘War on Crypto Is Over’: Donald Trump Pardons Binance Founder CZ
After serving a federal prison sentence for violating anti-money laundering laws and US sanctions, former crypto exchange CEO Changpeng Zhao has been pardoned by US President Donald Trump.
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@cur1ous.bsky.social · 12mo agoEmployees at Binance created PancakeSwap "Traders, mostly writing in Chinese, gather in groups on the Telegram messaging app to talk about competing for rewards paid out to top users of USD1 and advertised by PancakeSwap" #finreg #geopolitics www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
"the equivalent of about $1,800 per person in America will be invested this year on A.I." #AI #tariff www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...
Opinion | There Are Two Economies: A.I. and Everything Else
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“When Mr. Vought returned to the White House this year, he argued that disclosing the budget records would reveal sensitive information” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
In Budget Logs It Tried to Hide, White House Wrests More Control Over Spending
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@cur1ous.bsky.social · last yr.I know that there is *other news,* but still … :)
Employees at Binance created PancakeSwap "Traders, mostly writing in Chinese, gather in groups on the Telegram messaging app to talk about competing for rewards paid out to top users of USD1 and advertised by PancakeSwap" #finreg #geopolitics www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
The Recipe Behind the Trump Family’s Crypto Riches: PancakeSwap
The under-the-radar trading platform is quietly administered by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, whose founder is seeking a pardon from President Trump.
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@cur1ous.bsky.social · last yr."In March, Binance announced that MGX, an investment fund backed by the government of Abu Dhabi, would invest $2 billion in the exchange using stablecoins... The coin chosen for the transaction was World Liberty’s USD1, Mr. Witkoff said" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...
Re: T administration taking a 15% cut of Nvidia’s chip revenue in China, David Faber on @squawkstreet.bsky.social: why not 50%? :) A discussion of the following article has framed the issue #geopolitics #AI #capitalism www.wsj.com/economy/the-...
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
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"A.I. cos are often sanguine about export controls (which undermine their Chinese competitors) and want fewer regulations ... on A.I. Semiconductor companies, by contrast, are much more concerned about export controls, which ... limit their access to global markets" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/o...
Opinion | This Is How Trump Will Smash the Machine of U.S. Economic Power
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Moving toward payments in digital renminbi is difficult because China restricts how its currency can be moved in or out of the country, which "[makes] the renminbi an ineffective way for foreigners to store value" #finance #geopolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...
Aiming at the Dollar, China Makes a Pitch for Its Currency
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This is "the most significant update of the [nuclear] doctrine between Britain and France since 1995, when Britain and France agreed to deepen their nuclear cooperation under John Major, the prime minister, and Jacques Chirac, the French president" #geopolitics www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/w...
U.K. and France Sign First Nuclear Pact to Fend Off Threat to Europe
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I know that there is *other news,* but still … :)
Senate Budget Committee@senatebudget.bsky.social · last yr.The American people deserve to know what the Administration is attempting to do with their tax dollars. The federal budget isn’t Russ Vought’s secret slush fund. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
“Members of the Freedom Caucus and others who raised concerns eventually got on board after House leadership agreed to attach a provision banning a central-bank digital currency to an annual defense spending bill that must be passed” #finreg www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
House Passes Crypto Bills After Trump Rallies Republicans
The bills establish standards for stablecoins, lay out rules for crypto exchanges and ban central-bank digital currencies.
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🗳 Update: World Liberty Financial token holders voted to make the tokens transferable. Move is the first step towards Trump eventually being able to liquidate at least some of his 22.5 billion tokens. Backstory: www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...
The CLARITY Act - "a market structure measure" would divvy up oversight of the digital asset market among various financial regulators #finreg www.politico.com/newsletters/...
Crypto lobbyists blanket the Hill
Crypto lobbyists are mounting a full-court press in Washington ahead of a pivotal week for the industry.
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"The possibility of Wall Street’s traditional powers teaming up to issue their own stablecoin marks the latest sign that mainstream and crypto finance are inching closer together"
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · last yr.Exclusive: Major U.S. banks are exploring a joint stablecoin to compete with the crypto industry
