Höptner led Börse Stuttgart as the firm started offering regulated cryptocurrency trading services inside the European Union, from Germany. The company said it was the European Union's first traditional exchange operator to become a regulated crypto multilateral trading facility.
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The Binance hackers aren't wearing cuffs yet, but their identities are known (Photo: Pixabay/Alexas Photos)Binance pays $200K reward after hackers indicted
The leading cryptocurrency exchange compensated investigators who identified the hackers behind a 2018 phishing attack, even though they are still at large
According to a Nov. 11 announcement, Binance is granting most of the $250,000 reward that the exchange offered to pay for information leading to the arrest of the March 7, 2018 attackers. “Sometimes #SAFU takes time,” Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao tweeted. “This took 2 years of effort, with close collaboration with multiple law enforcement agencies globally. But we don't give up.”
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The Department of Justice is trying to block Visa's acquisition of fintech Plaid (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)U.S. sues to stop Visa’s acquisition of payments fintech Plaid
The Department of Justice brought an anti-trust suit seeking to block the deal for Plaid, which lets merchants bypass online debit card payment middlemen
In Nov. 5 filing with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the Department of Justice (DoJ) claimed in a court filing that as “Visa learned more about Plaid’s efforts to launch its own pay-by-bank debit service that would directly compete with Visa, its executives grew increasingly alarmed.”
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse discusses leaving the U.S. due to regulatory uncertainty (Photo: Fox Business News)Ripple’s Garlinghouse: U.S. regulators ‘advantaging’ Chinese crypto technologies
The international payments firm’s CEO repeated warnings that regulatory uncertainty is driving the company to consider leaving the U.S.
“If the U.S. government's doing things to advantage Chinese technology at the disadvantage to a company like Ripple and others like Ripple, then that's a really frustrating place to be,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said. “And that's why we have taken the step to look at, should we relocate the company to a country where it is clear?”