US SEC Threatens to Sue Crypto Exchange Coinbase, CEO Brian Armstrong Responds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has threatened to sue the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase over its lending product. The exchange says, “We don’t know why … We got no explanation from the SEC.” Coinbase Threatened by SEC Coinbase revealed Tuesday that it received a Wells notice from the SEC last Wednesday about its planned Lend program. A Wells notice is the official way a regulator tells a company it intends to sue the company in court. In a blog post titled “The SEC has told us it wants to sue us over Lend. We....
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