IOSCO Warns Investors on Crowdfunding & Bitcoin Risks
The International Organization of Securities Commissions – IOSCO – has put crowdfunding on their list of investors risks, together with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Investors all over the world are looking for ways to diversify their portfolio. Rather than sticking with government bonds, stock market trading, or foreign currency, new and....
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Last week, IOSCO which is also in charge of the global policy for capital markets rule-makers had a two day meetup in Madrid. The meetup main discussion singled out the research focus for the coming year in the risks posed by new and emerging digital technologies. The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today announced that they are venturing up their exploration into the disruptive potential brought by the new technologies like blockchain, robo-advisors, and cyber security. IOSCO is an international body that coordinates the world’s securities regulators and is....
IOSCO Chair Ashley Alder recognizes that “DeFi is a novel and fast-growing area of financial services.” As decentralized finance (DeFi) space grows, regulators are giving more effort to conducting research and providing a means to better understand the emerging industry.Today, the International Organization of Securities (IOSCO) published a report that aims to give a perspective on DeFi and highlight some areas that may be potential areas of concern to regulators. According to the report, DeFi is growing and many of its mechanisms are very similar to traditional financial markets.Total....
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned investors about the “risks with accounts that pay interest on crypto-asset deposits.” The warning coincides with the first enforcement action the agency took against crypto lending platforms.
SEC Warns About Risks in Interest-Bearing Crypto Accounts
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy and the Division of Enforcement’s Retail Strategy Task Force announced Monday that they have jointly issued an investor bulletin “to educate....
Thailand Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) warns investors within the state about the risks that DeFi transactions pose. SEC claimed that DeFi’s ecosystem, especially lending and debit-taking firms, may not include necessary parameters in their mechanisms to ensure the prevention of rug-pull and overleveraged collateral. While cryptocurrency gained prominent growth in recent years, it also […]