CCO allegedly ignored in Ripple cryptocurrency lawsuit
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-23T17:51:00
The chief compliance officer at Ripple Labs allegedly warned company leaders on multiple occasions that its marketing of its cryptocurrency offering, XRP, could lead the SEC to classify it as a security—the focal point of a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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