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SPACs and Crypto’s Loveless Marriage was Doomed

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SPACs and Crypto’s Loveless Marriage was Doomed

[ad_1] Crypto companies seeking the public markets’ stamp of approval face a rightly skeptical SEC. Banker Bob Diamond was forced to pull the ripcord this week on his attempt to take stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial public via a special purpose acquisition company. The ex-Barclays Plc boss's dealmaking ability probably wasn't the issue. Nor was the target's financial performance: Circle earns interest income on the reserves that backstop its stablecoin USDC, and rising interest rates have thus benefited its bottom line. Instead, the party pooper was almost certainly the Securities and Exchange Commission. Following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in November, the regulator's already elevated wariness of crypto is now at DEFCON 1. Trying to match a crypto company wi...

Crackdown! Global regulators to target crypto platforms after FTX crash

[ad_1] The crash of FTX exchange has injected greater urgency into regulating the crypto sector and targeting such 'conglomerate' platforms will be the focus for 2023. The crash of FTX exchange has injected greater urgency into regulating the crypto sector and targeting such 'conglomerate' platforms will be the focus for 2023, the new chair of global securities watchdog IOSCO said in an interview.Jean-Paul Servais said regulating crypto platforms could draw on principles from other sectors which handle conflicts of interest, such as at credit rating agencies and compilers of market benchmarks, without having to start from scratch. Cryptoassets like bitcoin have been around for years but regulators have resisted jumping in to write new rules. But the implosion at FTX, which left an est...

Tether Price Dips Below $1 as FTX Fallout Continues to Roil Markets

[ad_1] Tether’s USDT token, the largest stablecoin by market value, veered off its dollar-peg on Thursday as market instability continued to roil the crypto sector and the issuer froze some coins in the wake of FTX’s collapse. Tether's USDT token, the largest stablecoin by market value, veered off its dollar-peg on Thursday as market instability continued to roil the crypto sector and the issuer froze some coins in the wake of FTX's collapse. USDT slipped as much as 4% to around 96 cents, according to pricing data available on Bloomberg. Other major stablecoins, including Circle's USDC, Binance's BUSD and MakerDAO's DAI, were broadly flat or trading at a slight premium. The issuer also sought to freeze a pile of USDT tokens, subject to an active investigation by law enforcement. ...