Silicon Valley Bank Rocks Crypto and Equity Markets Ahead of Jobs Report

“Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB), another crypto-friendly bank, comes under pressure. The bank is generally regarded as one of the default fallback options for industry participants impacted by the collapse of Silvergate. Operation Chokepoint 2.0 continues tightening its grip,” Ilan Solot, co-head of digital assets at Marex, said in an email, referring to Silvergate Bank, a crypto bank that is closing down, and to a government crackdown in 2013 on banks that did business with the gun sellers. Source

Blockchain.com suspends its asset management subsidiary launched in April: Report

Cryptocurrency financial services company Blockchain.com will suspend operations of its asset management subsidiary, according to a Bloomberg report published March 9. The service had existed less than a year and appears to be the latest casualty of the crypto winter. The subsidiary, known as Blockchain.com Asset Management, is based in London. It applied to be removed from the U.K. companies register on March 5. The application itself is dated Feb. 15. The company had not yet filed its first annual account. Blockchain.com Asset Management was opened in April 2022 in…

Credit Suisse Postpones Its Annual Report

The management of the company, in a statement, said that it will be wise to postpone the publication for a short period of time to examine and understand more completely the comments received. Credit Suisse recently announced that it is planning to postpone the emergence of its annual 2022 report following a late call from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday night. In a public announcement from the perturbed investment banking company, it was claimed that the conversation with SEC revolved around the technical examination of previously…

BIS Releases Report On ‘Project Icebreaker’ — Develops Cross-Border Retail CBDC Payment Model – Bitcoin News

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a report summarizing the “Project Icebreaker” trial, which explored the potential advantages and difficulties of utilizing a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) in cross-border payments. The experiment was designed to test “the technical feasibility of conducting cross-border – cross-currency transactions between different [distrubuted ledger technology]-based CBDC proof of concepts.” Technical Feasibility of Cross-Border Retail CBDC Payments Reportedly Proven in Project Icebreaker Trial Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) have been a key focus for the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in recent…

Crypto Exchange Binance Approached SEC Chair Gary Gensler in 2018 To Offer Advisory Position: Report

The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, reportedly recruited current U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler for an advisory role back in 2018. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Binance employees approached Gensler when he was a professor at the prestigious US university, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chats viewed by the WSJ show that a Binance staffer believed that Gensler would likely be “back in a regulator’s seat if Dems win the 2020 election.” Per the report, Gensler declined the advisory position but offered Binance licensing strategies.…

US lawmakers planning to reintroduce bill aimed at fixing crypto reporting requirements: Report

A group of United States lawmakers is reportedly planning to reintroduce legislation to change the reporting requirements for certain taxpayers involved in crypto transactions. According to a March 7 report from Punchbowl News, Representatives Patrick McHenry and Ritchie Torres plan to reintroduce the Keep Innovation in America Act. McHenry was one of the leading voices behind the previously proposed bill in an effort to change the definition of a broker as defined in the U.S. infrastructure law — President Joe Biden signed the legislation in November 2021. Under a draft…

Impact of the Silvergate collapse on crypto — Watch The Market Report live

This week on The Market Report, the resident experts at Cointelegraph discuss all the details regarding Silvergate and its impact on the crypto market so far. We kick things off with this week’s top stories Bitcoin traders eye $19K BTC price bottom, warn of ‘hot’ February CPI It could be a testing few weeks for Bitcoin and risk assets, market commentators say, with Fed Chair Jerome Powell due to kick off the triggers on March 8. Historically, March has not been a great month for Bitcoin (BTC), and 2023 seems…

Hong Kong’s losses to crypto scams doubled to $217M last year: Report

Some countries worldwide suffered bigger financial losses to cryptocurrency scams despite a massive bear market in 2022. Losses from crypto scams in Hong Kong amounted to 1.7 billion Hong Kong dollars ($216.6 million) last year — surging 106% from a year before — according to local police. The number of crypto-related scams reported in Hong Kong in 2022 equaled 2,336 cases, surging 67% from 1,397 cases recorded by police in 2021, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported. Hong Kong scams involving crypto accounted for more than 50% of the 3.2…