JD Supra

SEC Sues Binance and Coinbase: What Are the Allegations and What Is Next?

The SEC alleges a number of registration violations under the Exchange Act with respect to both the Binance.com and Binance.US trading platforms. In particular: Binance.com. The SEC alleges that the ...
JD Supra

Tilting at Windmills: SEC Sues Binance and Coinbase

[co-author: Grace Dahlstorm (Law Clerk), Naomi Boico (Summer Associate), and Henry Deteskey (Summer Associate)] On June 5, 2023, the SEC filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the ...
The Daily Dot

Crypto CEO cheers demise of government board where customers lodged thousands of complaints

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong cheered the Trump administration’s attacks on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) over the weekend but neglected to mention the thousands of complaints his ...
Investopedia

SEC Sues Coinbase for Operating an Unregistered Exchange

It's not been a good day for Coinbase (COIN) so far: The crypto exchange is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ten state regulators have the company in their sights, and ...
Wall Street Journal

SEC’s Coinbase Complaint Sets Off Battle for Crypto’s Future

The Securities and Exchange Commission is separately suing two major cryptocurrency platforms, Binance and Coinbase. WSJ’s Caitlin Ostroff breaks down the lawsuits and their potential impact on the ...
Institutional Investor

Short Sellers Profit on SEC Complaint Against Coinbase

For months, short sellers have been railing against Coinbase Global, but it took the Securities and Exchange Commission’s complaint against the cryptocurrency trading platform Tuesday to finally knock ...