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Two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group have been sentenced in the UK after pleading guilty in connection with a $115M cryptocurrency ransom scheme.…
ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone warns stablecoin adoption could erode bank deposits, positioning the digital euro as a protective bulwark.…
Two members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime group have been sentenced in the UK after pleading guilty to roles in a $115M crypto ransom scheme targeting dozens of firms.…
Fed Chairman Warsh reintroduces M2 money supply as a core policy metric, while markets price a 33.5% probability of a rate hike by September 2026.…
ON Semiconductor acquires Synaptics in a $7B all-stock deal to enter edge AI, but the dilution-heavy structure rattled investors and sent shares lower.…
Temenos completes its acquisition of Swiss fintech additiv, integrating AI-powered orchestration tools and retaining the founder-led team on a stand-alone basis.…
Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings acquires a majority stake in Singapore crypto platform Coinhako, adding 400,000 users to its expanding Asian digital asset portfolio.…
ESMA has added 14 new crypto asset service providers to its MiCA register, including Ripple Payments Europe and several banks, lifting the total to 294.…
Citadel Securities has invested $400M in Crypto.com, pushing the exchange to a $20B valuation in its first-ever institutional funding round.…
An Argentine judge has ordered 25 crypto accounts frozen across Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitfinex as part of the widening $LIBRA memecoin investigation.…
Benjamin Wiener, a South Dakota crypto investor, has been federally indicted on 29 counts including wire fraud and money laundering tied to an alleged $20M Ponzi scheme.…
Federal prosecutors have indicted a South Dakota-based crypto investor on charges of orchestrating a $20 million fraud scheme with Ponzi-like repayment structures and crypto laundering.…