This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, December 22, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @SPYJared. Read this and more market news on the go with Yahoo Finance App. Crypto winter be damned — bitcoin and ethereum investors are still laser-focused on an industry in free-fall being rocked by… Source link
Read More »What is Mazars? Meet the accounting firm rocking the crypto world that previously ditched Trump
Mazars has found itself in the headlines again this year after confirming it’s pausing work for crypto clients, including Crypto.com, KuCoin, and Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. The news rocking the cryptocurrency world comes after the accounting firm in February backed away from another high-profile client — former President Donald Trump. On Friday, Mazars told Yahoo Finance that it “paused its activity relating to the provision of Proof of Reserves Reports for entities in… Source link
Read More »Accounting firm Mazars drops all crypto clients, including Binance and Crypto.com
French accounting firm Mazars is pausing all its work with crypto firms including, Crypto.com, KuCoin, and Binance, according to a spokesperson for Binance. Mazars has since deleted all crypto reports from its website. In a statement, a Mazars spokesperson told Yahoo Finance the firm, “paused its activity relating to the provision of Proof of Reserves Reports for entities in the cryptocurrency sector due to concerns regarding the way these reports are understood by the public.” Mazars noted:… Source link
Read More »Accounting firm Mazars drops all crypto clients, including Binance and Crypto.com
French accounting firm Mazars is pausing all its work with crypto firms including, Crypto.com, KuCoin, and Binance, according to a spokesperson for Binance. Mazars has since deleted all crypto reports from its website. In a statement, a Mazars spokesperson told Yahoo Finance the firm, “paused its activity relating to the provision of Proof of Reserves Reports for entities in the cryptocurrency sector due to concerns regarding the way these reports are understood by the public.” Mazars noted:… Source link
Read More »SBF’s ‘house of cards’ is the crypto industry’s problem now: Morning Brief
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance app for Apple or Android.Yahoo Finance App. Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former CEO of FTX, has had a bad… Source link
Read More »SEC sends letter to companies urging updated disclosures amid ‘widespread disruption’ in crypto markets
The Securities and Exchange Commission is sending a letter to U.S. public companies asking firms evaluate their disclosure obligations, including a “specific tailored disclosure,” about how recent crypto bankruptcies and broader financial distress across the digital asset market may have hit their business. The letter is intended to illustrate the type of comments the securities agency might send to public companies. “In meeting their disclosure obligations, companies should consider the… Source link
Read More »Gary Gensler warns crypto industry on need to comply with securities laws
Securities & Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler suggested Wednesday in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Finance Live failed crypto exchange FTX violated securities laws by using customer assets to trade at its affiliated hedge fund, Alameda Research. “I can’t speak to any one case or any one situation, but our securities laws say that you need to properly segregate customer funds,” Gensler said. “You also shouldn’t be running a broker dealer or a hedge fund, and an exchange. The New York… Source link
Read More »Yahoo to Offer Retail Stock Trading—Is Crypto Next?
Private equity giant Apollo Global bought Verizon Media—a group that includes Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, AOL, TechCrunch, Engadget, and Autoblog—in May 2021 for $5 billion. Now its revenue strategy for those properties is becoming clearer. Axios reports that Apollo plans to offer sports betting through Yahoo Sports, and retail stock trading on Yahoo Finance. There are signs it will also look at adding crypto trading. In the summer of 2021, shortly after announcing it would acquire… Source link
Read More »Crypto lender BlockFi files for bankruptcy in New Jersey
By Hannah Lang, Niket Nishant and Manya Saini (Reuters) -Major cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection along with eight affiliates, it said on Monday, the latest crypto casualty to follow the spectacular collapse of the FTX exchange earlier this month. The filing in a New Jersey court comes as crypto prices plummet, with bitcoin down more than 70% from a 2021 peak. New Jersey-based BlockFi had links with FTX, which filed for protection in the United States… Source link
Read More »Binance’s crypto recovery fund grows to $2 billion
Early Friday morning, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the company committed another $1 billion to its “relief fund” aimed at helping troubled businesses in the crypto industry. Binance’s efforts have been accelerated in the wake of FTX’s collapse earlier this month, which resulted in the company, once valued at $32 billion, filing for bankruptcy protection and leaving the crypto industry frozen in its wake. Earlier this month, Binance walked away from a purported deal to buy FTX. Binance’s… Source link
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