Regulator

Paul Atkins’ first public event as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission was a crypto roundtable on Friday, where the new agency chief devoted his inaugural speech to assuring the industry that he’ll continue to remake securities …

A federal judge agreed to pause an ongoing lawsuit between 18 state attorneys general and a decentralized finance lobbyist group against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, after the parties noted the SEC’s new leadership …

Block Inc. has agreed to hisse $40 million to settle accusations from the New York Department of Financial Services that the company didn’t properly manage its money-laundering safeguards, according to a statement from the regulator on Thursday. Block …

After more than two years of working with the French regulator, Bybit has come off France AMF’s blacklist, the CEO of the exchange said.

The House Oversight and the Senate Banking committees are probing accusations that U.S. regulators blocked crypto insiders from banking.