Crypto lobbying group Blockchain Association has asked permission to support cross-border payments company Ripple as a friend of the court in its case against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to published reports Sunday (Oct. 30), the Washington, D.C., organization is also asking...
The cryptocurrency lobbying industry won another victory Friday (Sept. 23) when California’s governor vetoed a bill that would have created a crypto regulation framework it said would force smaller and startup FinTechs out of the state where a great deal of the technical talent and...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong’s announcement last week that he is putting a political scorecard on the top U.S. crypto exchange’s app is a pretty good indication of how much attention the politics of crypto regulation has been getting lately. The scorecard, which assigns letter grades...
Chartered trust bank Protego Trust Bank has added a new CEO in Ron Totaro, who has decades of experience in building and leading FinTech, banking, payments and blockchain companies, a press release said Monday. Totaro was recently the CEO of Tassat Group, where he worked...
September 01, 2022
With a comprehensive crypto licensing bill awaiting California Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature, the U.S.’s largest market has jumped into the fight over consumer protection and innovation that is dominating federal attempts to create a regulatory regime for digital assets. Along the way, it is also diving into another debate over whether stablecoins must be issued […]
September 12, 2022
Chartered trust bank Protego Trust Bank has added a new CEO in Ron Totaro, who has decades of experience in building and leading FinTech, banking, payments and blockchain companies, a press release said Monday. Totaro was recently the CEO of Tassat Group, where he worked on bolstering the blockchain-based, real-time payment solutions which let banks […]
August 11, 2020
A woman in Australia will go to jail for the theft of more than 100,000 Ripple digital currency tokens over two years ago, ACS Information Age reported. The 25-year-old individual...
October 22, 2019
Ripple has announced that it’s now a member of the Blockchain Association, an organization that advocates cryptocurrencies and the use of blockchain networks. “Not unlike the internet’s historic impact, blockchain...
September 13, 2018
High-profile digital currency firms are reportedly banding together to create a lobbying organization called the Blockchain Association, The Washington Post reported. The group’s first focus is said to be on...
