In the mother of all convenient coincidences, cryptocurrency magnate and accused fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, has had all of his campaign finance charges dropped by the Department of Justice, based on a technicality that they attributed to ...

Featured Speaker Christy Goldsmith Romero Commissioner U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Explore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more. Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. He owns marginal amounts of bitcoin and ether. Featured Speaker Christy Goldsmith Romero Commissioner U.S.

Readers of these pages will be familiar that in addition to holding its gold bars in a HSBC vault in London, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed ETF, at times also holds some of its gold bars in the vaults of the 'Bank of England' in London.

On March 23 rd it was announced that buyers from "unfriendly countries" would provide rubles in return for Russian gas, instead of the traditional U.S. dollar. Eventually the announcement was extended to oil and other commodities. Will the stringency of such a decree hold? The bet here is that it won't.

Zelensky has just signed into law the first steps of Schwab's Great Reset. He announced he is introducing a Social Credit Application combining Universal Basic Income (UBI), a Digital Identity & a Vaccine Passport all within their Diia app.

With a group of former JP Morgan precious metals traders currently on criminal trial in front of a federal jury in Chicago, accused of engaging in a racketeering conspiracy involving precious metals price manipulation, commodities fraud and trade spoofing, while another group of their colleagues have already pleaded guilty, now

A much-watched stock market indicator that called the 2000 crash is signaling expectations are running too hot - setting up investors in many S&P 500 sectors for big disappointment, says a just-released report from Bank of America. Fifteen of the 20 stock metrics BofA monitors signal the S&P 500 is already "statistically expensive."

A digital ape, a domain address and virtual land parcels are among the $342.5 million held in cryptoasset wallets subject to new OFAC sanctions - marking the first time that NFTs have been associated with OFAC-sanctioned entities.