The container ship that rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March lost power multiple times on both the day of the fatal accident and the day before, according to a preliminary report. The Dali, which sails under the …
In February 2019, Binance Holdings Ltd.’s then-Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim acknowledged that the cryptocurrency exchange was being used to funnel money to Hamas, explaining to a colleague that terrorists normally sent “small sums.” Hamas could “barely buy an AK47 …
The US Justice Department is seeking more than $4 billion from Binance Holdings Ltd. as part of a proposed resolution of a years-long investigation into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Negotiations between the Justice Department and Binance include the possibility …
Two founders of Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that has been under scrutiny by various US agencies for more than a year, were charged with helping launder more than $1 billion for clients that included a North Korean cybercrime …
Gary Gensler’s Securities and Exchange Commission is filling the crypto regulatory void, and the industry and its backers on Capitol Hill have so far been unable to check him. The tide was supposed to turn when Republicans gained control over …
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is just getting started with its crackdown on crypto firms that refuse to abide by its rules. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in an interview on Thursday (Dec. 22) that the agency’s patience is …
