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...The beneficiaries of the trades are not known, but the rouble-Tether moves “strongly reinforce the idea that crypto is used by nefarious actors trying to play outside mainstream finance”, said Charley Cooper...
...Email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com Weekly highlights Singapore has been front and centre for some of the biggest crypto scandals, with names such as Do Kwon, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies now synonymous with...
...“SBF is the poster child for all the negative assumptions about crypto,” said Charley Cooper, a former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...The Wall Street guys, you can call them greedy, but they’re not breaking the law,” Cooper adds....
...Ridley Scott’s new two-and-a-half-hour-long film stars Joaquin Phoenix, and documents a lot: Napoleon’s rise and fall, some of his most famous battles, and his relationship with his wife, Josephine....
...Cooper spent six years trying to mimic Bernstein and his hyperactive conducting manner....
...The Nasdaq decision “is a major setback for two reasons,” said Charley Cooper, former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...“Many people looked at Sam Bankman-Fried to be the leader of the industry and save it in the face of regulators,” says Charley Cooper, a former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission....
...This is a problem, because a critical shoeing isn’t just a form of hygiene, a way to separate Ridley Scott’s Gladiator from Ridley Scott’s Napoleon....
...“There are a bunch of American companies who have built business models on the assumption that these crypto tokens aren’t securities,” said Charley Cooper, former CFTC chief of staff....
...Even Netflix delivered the occasional doozy: Bradley Cooper’s kinetic Maestro among them....
...Like one of the maestro’s own performances, it’s a tireless and captivating effort from Cooper....
...Could he imagine spending six years learning to conduct, as Bradley Cooper did for Maestro?...
...“Battling two powerful regulators at the same time will take precious time and resources, and Binance will no doubt feel the impact,” said Charley Cooper, a former CFTC chief of staff....
...“US law is very clear on this: you can be a foreign entity but as soon as you touch American customers you have established jurisdiction for US regulatory agencies, period,” said Charley Cooper, former chief...
...And stablecoins like USDC are the way in and out of crypto for many investors,” said Charley Cooper, a former chief of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the US regulator....
...“The perspective, whether fair or not, after FTX collapsed was that the CFTC had been too supportive of Bankman-Fried while the SEC remained wary,” said Charley Cooper, former chief of staff at the CFTC....
...As always, email me with your thoughts at scott.chipolina@ft.com....
...“An aligned lobbying strategy is perfectly legal, but Binance faces a unique problem of perception given the distance it claims exists between its global and US entities,” said Charley Cooper, managing director...
...Like much else in writer-director Scott Cooper’s awkward film, it is hard to know if this is down to design or a difficult edit. Either way, Bale makes an odd second banana....
...Nikki Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the UN, and Tim Scott, the Republican senator from South Carolina, have formed campaigns, while Chris Christie, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, and Mike Pence...
...Email them to me at scott.chipolina@ft.com. Join FT Live at Davos where we will host a number of in-person and digital events alongside the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this January....
...of firms that trade each other’s tokens, that invest in each other’s products, that offer trading platforms for the transaction of those products, and they custody each other’s products,” says Charley Cooper...
...“Crypto tried to distance itself from the mainstream economy, making claims that bitcoin was a hedge against inflation and that crypto would continue to exist almost in its own bubble,” said Charley Cooper...
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