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Tag: CFTC

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Regulators Continue Costly Crackdown on Off-Channel Communications

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How much would your teenage children pay to stay on their favorite social media apps? One thousand dollars? Ten thousand? More? If you think their addiction is bad, console yourself with the example of the country’s largest financial instit...

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Courts Cloud the Future of Regulatory Agencies’ Tools

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By now, political junkies know all about PredictIt. The Australia-based venture offers the equivalent of betting markets for politics, allowing users to buy and sell shares based on the expected outcome of events such as elections. Some pun...

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Coinbase Case Raises Questions About SEC’s Crypto Authority

The Securities and Exchange Commission is continuing to break new ground in the regulation of the cryptocurrency market. Whether the agency should be doing so may depend on who you ask. Last week, the SEC announced insider trading charges a...

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Can the Courts End Crypto’s Existential Crisis?

Puppies Tugging on Coinbase

Could we be nearing an answer to the question of whether digital tokens are securities or commodities? At Intelligize, we certainly hope so. We’ve written in the past about how tiresome this existential debate has become. It appears the leg...

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Welcome to the New World of Whistleblowing

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Corporate whistleblowers are some of Hollywood’s favorite underdogs. Spurred on by a sense of moral obligation, they risk their reputations, their careers and even their personal safety on the big screen to expose wrongdoing by billion-doll...

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