‘Crypto Couple’ appear set to plead guilty in bitcoin hack money laundering case
The New York couple charged with trying to launder $4.5 billion in bitcoin stolen in a 2016 hack of Bitfinex…
TikTok Shop strikes ‘buy now, pay later’ partnership in Malaysia as part of e-commerce push
TikTok struck a partnership with “buy now, pay later” service Atome to offer installment payments on its e-commerce marketplace in…
FTX lawyers accuse Sam Bankman-Fried of financing his criminal defense with $10 million in misappropriated funds
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of failed crypto exchange FTX, was sued in Delaware bankruptcy court on Thursday by his ex-company’s lawyers,…
UAE crypto scammer sentenced to 8 years in prison for multimillion-dollar fraud scheme
A United Arab Emirates resident and Nigerian citizen was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar…
Fed banking regulator warns A.I. could lead to illegal lending practices like excluding minorities
The Federal Reserve’s top banking regulator expressed caution Tuesday about the impact that artificial intelligence can have on efforts to…
Twitter laid off most of its workers in Africa last year. They say they’ve been ignored and left without severance
Former Twitter employees in Ghana, who were laid off in November, have been left without severance pay and have not…
Ripple says U.S. banks will want to use XRP cryptocurrency after partial victory in SEC fight
Blockchain startup Ripple is confident U.S. banks and other financial institutions in the country will start showing interest in adopting…
Tucker Carlson’s show on Twitter makes ad deal with anti-ESG shopping app
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has landed one of its first advertisers. Carlson agreed to a…
‘Small group’ of House Republicans bringing social issues into defense bill, U.S. National Security Advisor Sullivan says
A “small group” of House Republicans have “essentially created a trap” by loading the National Defense Authorization Act with a…
