CFTC Fines Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex $75,000 For Offering “Illegal” Transactions
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ordered Bitfinex, a Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange, to pay $75,000 for offering illegal, off-exchange, financed retail commodity transactions in cryptocurrencies, and for failing to register as a futures commission merchant (FCM) as required by law, according to a CFTC press release. The order requires the exchange to cease and desist from future violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). CFTC Cites Dodd-Frank Act. From April 2013 to at least February 2016, the CFTC found Bitfinex allowed users to borrow funds from one another to....
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CFTC Issues Two Fines to Tether and Bitfinex, CFTC Expects ‘Honesty and Transparency in the Developing Digital Assets Marketplace’
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Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has settled with the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) following an investigation into its financed trading activities. Bitfinex settled charges that it offered illegal off-exchange financed retail commodities trading, as well as failed to register as a futures commission merchant. Bitfinex did not admit or deny the CFTC findings, the agency said today. According to an order published today by the CFTC, the issues arose owing to how Bitfinex held functional control over funds tied to leveraged or margin trading on the platform. The....
Bitfinex has been fined by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commision for offering illegal off-exchange financed retail commodity transactions in Bitcoin Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges, has been fined by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commision (CFTC) for offering illegal off-exchange financed retail commodity transactions in Bitcoin and also failing to register as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM). The company is required by the Order to pay a US$75,000 civil monetary penalty in total, for other alleged illegal operations such as....
Some notable experts claim that this regulatory framework presented by the CFTC may have prevented Bitfinex from using cold storage. On June 2, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fined Bitfinex US$75,000 for handling illegal off-exchange financial retail commodity transactions without registering as a futures commission merchant. The CFTC – alongside other regulators – required the exchange to deliver the digital currency directly to their users, instead of holding the private keys controlling the traded coins. The official order stated that Bitfinex “did not actually....
Hong Kong exchange Bitfinex has said it will be “business as usual” after being fined $75,000 by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Bitfinex ‘Involved in Below-Board Practices’. The results of the CFTC inquiry, published Thursday in a press release, state that the fine was imposed on Bitfinex “for offering illegal off-exchange financed....