Bad day for Binance with SEC investigation and Reuters exposé
The SEC is reportedly suspicious that the world’s biggest crypto exchange sold unlicensed securities in its ICO, and the news agency tallied up some old cases. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating whether Binance Holdings broke securities rules when it launched its BNB token in an initial coin offering (ICO) five years ago, Bloomberg reported on June 6. Binance is the world’s largest crypto exchange, and BNB is the fifth largest cryptocurrency.The BNB ICO took place in July 2017 on several platforms, during the height of the so-called ICO boom, and....
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The report alleges that Binance tried to insulate itself from regulatory scrutiny — a suggestion that the exchange denies. On Oct. 17, a new report published by Reuters alleged that cryptocurrency exchange Binance "swerved scrutiny" from regulators in the United Kingdom and the United States. The main spearhead of the allegations arises from two supposed incidents in its operating history.First, Reuters wrote of Binance strategy executive Zoe Wei's proposal to backdate a service agreement relating to various operations between Binance's U.K. unit and Binance's Cayman Islands holding....
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Crypto exchange giant Binance is allegedly under investigation by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as well as the Department of Justice (DOJ) for money laundering and tax evasion. BREAKING: Binance, the world's biggest crypto exchange, is under investigation by the Justice Department and IRS https://t.co/mk0Njo7tUE — Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) May 13, 2021 According to […]
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has received extensive media notice in recent months. Reuters stated that in response to the Ukrainian government’s call to freeze all Russian cryptocurrency accounts, Binance would block Russian customer accounts targeted by sanctions but not all of them. The crypto exchange was not alone in its stance on account […]