- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
Bitcoin, the controversial virtual currency vexing financial regulators, is now officially a commodity—at least in the eyes of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. On Thursday, with the CFTC’s first ever enforcement action against an unregistered Bitcoin options trading platform, the agency designated the virtual currency, and potentially others like it, ...
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As mainstream firms dip their toes into cryptocurrency, they are discovering an evolving world of money laundering controls and sanctions restrictions.
Recent price spikes of virtual currencies have inspired a new breed of hackers who don’t want your data—just your processing power.
Three exchanges regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission this month self-certified new contracts for bitcoin futures products. Sequentially, the CFTC issued a statement on the self-certification of bitcoin products by these exchanges.
