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...WHAT:Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger and SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce will participate in a fireside chat during the Cryptocurrency After the Election event hosted by the Federalist Society. WHEN:Tuesday, February 11, 20253:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EST)WHERE:WebinarAdditional information: Cryptocurrency After the Election
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...Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Office of Customer Outreach and Education (OCEO) today announced two partnerships to give customers targeted information about cryptocurrency relationship investment scams. Partnerships with multiple organizations are a cornerstone of OCEO’s outreach efforts to expand its audience to include those people who trust the partner…
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...Washington, D.C. – The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced Senior Judge David C. Guaderrama of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas entered an order on July 9, assessing monetary relief totaling over $31 million against Abner Alejandro Tinoco and his company Kikit & Mess Investments, LLC.
The order requires Tinoco and Kikit & Mess, both…
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...The availability of generative artificial intelligence technology makes it easier than ever to create false images, voices, videos, live-streaming video chats, social media profiles, and malicious websites designed to look like financial trading platforms. The technology is also increasingly being used in relationship investment frauds, the FBI recently reported.[1]The technology is being used…
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...Scammers are using smart phones, social media or dating sites, and cryptocurrency to steal billions of dollars from Americans. Over the coming month, the CFTC is joining with other federal, state, and nonprofit organizations to raise awareness about these horrible crimes. You can help too: Warn your friends and family by sharing #DatingOrDefauding information and links.Relationship investment…
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… solicitation from clients to purportedly trade in cryptocurrencies and precious metals. On August 2, U.S. … per week using a “proprietary algorithm” for trading cryptocurrencies and precious metals, among other things …
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...The action we considered this week is precedential as it was the first Commission vote to approve a vertically integrated market structure,[1] an action on which I dissented. Bitnomial, a self-described small start-up,[2] applied to be a clearinghouse with a bespoke market structure—with the same parent company owning a CFTC-registered broker (futures commission merchant (FCM)) and…
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… to as blockchain technologies, digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, and certain platforms within the …
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Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson will deliver remarks and participate in a fireside chat on cryptocurrency regulation.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2023
11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (PST)
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (EST)
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Virtual event.
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Keynote Address of CFTC Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo Before the Cato Institute, Cryptocurrency: The Policy Challenges of a Decentralized Revolution
“If Allowed to Thrive, Blockchain May Finally Give Regulators Transparency”
April 12, 2016
Introduction
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your warm welcome.
Before I begin, let me say that my remarks…
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