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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

The SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, which is the nation’s stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States.

Not Just XRP That Bothers SEC: Gensler Says ‘A Lot of Crypto Tokens’ Are Securities

May 10, 2021

Last Friday (May 7), Gary Gensler, the recently appointed Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), talked during an interview with CNBC about the need for “greater investor protection” in t...

Ripple Execs Blast SEC’s ‘Perplexing’ Actions in String Of Interviews

April 30, 2021

As American blockchain company Ripple’s woes with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continue, the company’s executives have appeared in a string of interviews with major broadcasters to flag wha...

SEC Indicts Spot Option and Two Operators, Pini Peter and Ran Amiran

April 19, 2021

The United States financial market regulator has moved against binary options company, Spot Option and its two operators, Malhaz Pinhas Patarkazishvili (Pini Peter) and Ran Amiran for running illegal operatio...

Fidelity Investments Asks U.S. SEC for Permission To Launch a Bitcoin ETF

March 26, 2021

Fidelity Investments, a financial giant with over $4.9 trillion in assets under management, has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (...

SEC Acting Enforcement Director To Resign

January 13, 2021

SEC Acting Enforcement Director to resign. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s announced on Tuesday tha its Acting Enforcement Director Marc Berger will leave the agency this month. Berger took on ...

Ripple CEO Garlinghouse Speaks Up On SEC Complaint Against XRP

December 23, 2020

Ripple CEO Garlinghouse speaks up on SEC complaint against XRP. Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, commented on the latest regulatory lawsuit against XRP, assuring shareholders that the company will prove thei...

US SEC Issues No-Action Letter On The Process For Compressed Digital Properties

September 27, 2020

US SEC issues no-action letter on the process for compressed digital properties. In an attempt to minimise operating risk for broker-dealers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a significa...

SEC Seeks Binance Chain Scrutiny, Intends to Tap CipherTrace

July 30, 2020

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering to initiate an investigation on the transactions made on Binance Chain, the proprietary blockchain of the identically-named cryptocurrency exchan...

Telegram’s Active Involvement With TON Blockchain Project Is Over After Court Fight

May 13, 2020

Telegram's active involvement with Telegram Open Network (TON) is over. Telegram founder Pavel Durov took to his public channel to announce the discontinuation of TON due to the ongoing legal battle between t...

Crypto Mining Hardware Maker Ebang To Raise $100 Million U.S. IPO

April 27, 2020

Ebang International, a Chinese Bitcoin mining hardware maker, has officially approached the United States for its initial public offering (IPO). According to the F-1 form filed with the Securities and Exchan...