From Signature Bank's crypto ties to mining moon dust – Here's your March 16 news briefing
New York-based lender Signature Bank was founded in 2001 with a mission to be more business-friendly than the big banks, and it was crushing it.
Money laundering
From an alleged crypto money laundering scheme to the real scoop on coffee pods – Here's your January 20 news briefing
Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of the Hong Kong-registered Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange, has found himself in the middle of an investigation.
US arrests crypto exchange Bitzlato’s founder for allegedly laundering US$700 million
Anatoly Legkodymov, founder of the Hong Kong-registered Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange, has found himself in the middle of an investigation.
From Bankman-Fried’s arrest to more details on the "Bali bonking ban" – Here's your December 14 briefing
To start off, we're looking into:
Former FTX CEO arrested in the Bahamas – On Monday, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas by local law enforcement.
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in Bahamas with criminal charges
US prosecutors have investigated him for potential money laundering violations.
The biggest crypto seizure ever by the Justice Department, explained
The backstory:
* So a big concern of cryptocurrency critics is that crypto can be used to enable financial crimes, like money laundering.
* So, how would that work? For example, bitcoin addresses, which you can think of as a bank account number, can’t be traced to individual people and can
The “FinCEN Files,” the world’s latest banking corruption scandal, explained
The FinCEN Files depict a banking industry that, on the surface, complies with regulations and reports suspicious activity but, deeper down, does little to address these concerns and instead contributes to crimes connected to vast sums of “dirty money.”
A recent BuzzFeed News report, in cooperation with the International Consortium