CF Benchmarks, the Bitcoin index provider of Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, has received authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to become a Benchmark Administrator under the European Benchmarks...

Facebook is set to face global regulators on Monday to answer questions about its Libra cryptocurrency project, amid warning from EU governments that the digital currency poses threat to financial stability. According...

France warned on Thursday that it will block the development of Facebooks cryptocurrency Libra as it is posing a threat to the monetary sovereignty of governments. I want to be absolutely clear: in these conditions, we...

Burundi has declared cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum as illegal in the country, Bloomberg reported. The announcement was made by Alfred Nyobewumusi, a director at the Bank of the Republic of Burundis (BRB)...

De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), the central bank of the Netherlands, has announced it will start regulating firms engaged in the cryptocurrency sector. In a press release published today, the DNB said that cryptocurrency...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will jointly conduct for the first time an open criminal investigation on cryptocurrency products, according to News...

The Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) is moving to classify the buying and selling of crypto-assets according to the guidelines issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Cointelegraph reported. According to the...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) today published new regulatory guidance for blockchain-based payment transactions. The guidance follows the guidelines published by the Financial Action Task...

The concerns of U.S. lawmakers on Facebooks proposed cryptocurrency remain unresolved even after their recent meeting with Swiss regulators. Chairwoman of the House of Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters led a...

The U.S. Treasury Departments Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blacklisted several digital currency addresses that allegedly belonged to three Chinese nationals suspected money laundering and drug...