# CFTC (Page 9)

Could global regulators finally be deciding to work together – and are they stepping up their game to respond to the rapidly increasing pace of global fintech progress?Source: iStock/imaginimaSome of America’s most powerful financial regulators – including the Commodity Futures...

Ether, the native token of the Ethereum blockchain, is a commodity, believes the new Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Heath Tarbert.Source: iStock/gopixa"We've been very clear on bitcoin: bitcoin is a commodity. We haven't said anything about ether—until now....

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating whether major crypto exchange BitMEX broke rules by allowing Americans to trade on the platform, which isn’t registered with the agency, Bloomberg reported, citing "people familiar with the matter."Source:...

Online Bitcoin reward shopping app Lolli has partnered with travel site Hotels.com – adding to a list of travel partners that already includes hotel groups Hilton and Marriott, as well as sales sites Booking.com, Hotwire, AirBnB rival VRBO and Priceline.Source: iStock/sertsCustomers making...

Social media giant Facebook is in “very early stages of conversations” with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over its digital coin, Christopher Giancarlo, the outgoing head of the CFTC, told the Financial Times.Source: iStock/JaysonPhotographyThese talks should help...

A cryptocurrency trader has received 15 months of prison time for misappropriating more than USD 1.1 million worth of Bitcoin and Litecoin, in the first such case in Chicago, Illinois. The US criminal justice system warns that although cryptocurrency is a relatively new concept in this case, they...

The price of bitcoin fell sharply on Sunday and early Monday morning after Coinrail, South Korea’s 7th biggest exchange said it was hacked, possibly to the tune of over USD 37.3 million.Source: iStock/SitadeAccording to data from Coinbase, bitcoin dropped 10% to around USD 6,770 – the...