Tag: government policy
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Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma returns to China after a year’s absence
Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. The billionaire co-founder has returned to mainland China after spending about a year abroad, according to people familiar with the matter. The travels of Mr. Ma have been the subject of intense scrutiny as China’s leadership scrambles to regain entrepreneurial confidence after years of regulatory and pandemic Covid-19 measures […]
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First Citizens Nearly Agree to Buy Silicon Valley Bank: Report
Last Updated: March 26, 2023 at 8:34 PM ET First published: March 26, 2023 at 7:57 p.m. ET First Citizens BancShares Inc. is close to a deal to acquire the bankrupt Silicon Valley Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., according to a report late Sunday. Bloomberg News reported that a deal could be announced […]
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Apple’s Tim Cook takes the stage in China with a welcome cheer
BEIJING – Apple from Inc AAPL 0.83% Tim Cook took the stage at an economic conference in Beijing sponsored by the Chinese government on Saturday and gave a buoyant speech that was welcomed with applause. The treatment his counterpart at TikTok received in Washington days earlier couldn’t have been more different: hours of questioning by […]
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Crypto faces legal reckoning as SEC prepares action against Coinbase
The SEC has informed Coinbase that it plans to sue the company for allegedly violating a series of investor protection laws, the company said this week. An eventual SEC lawsuit against the largest US crypto exchange could help determine the future shape of exchanging dollars for digital tokens such as bitcoin, ether or polkadot. It […]
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Coinbase’s CEO takes to Twitter to highlight work with SEC before the regulatory warning is issued
Published: March 23, 2023 at 6:22 PM ET Coinbase COIN CEO Brian Armstrong and others on Coinbase’s team shared their thoughts on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Wells Notice a day earlier, in a Twitter space hosted on Coinbase’s account Thursday night. “We actually didn’t think this was unexpected,” said Armstrong, adding that Coinbase […]
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Crypto will be ‘over’ in the US if Coinbase loses battle with SEC. This is why
Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger. This is Frances Yue, crypto reporter at MarketWatch. Crypto exchange Coinbase MINT said Wednesday it received a notice from Wells from the Securities and Exchange Commission that could lead to formal charges. The SEC’s Wells notice covered an unspecified portion of the exchange’s publicly traded digital assets, the staking […]
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Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent company says FDIC seized about $2 billion in cash
Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent company cannot access about $2 billion it deposited with the bankrupt bank after regulators froze the company’s accounts and are investigating whether it should bear costs related to the bank’s bankruptcy . Lawyers for SVB Financial Group, the holding company that formerly controlled the now-defunct bank, alleged Tuesday at the […]