Switzerland’s market regulator, the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), has approved the first exchange-traded retail fund that directly holds Bitcoin on Tuesday, October 20. The first-of-its-kind approval in the country lands in the same week as Sparkassen rolled out crypto trading inside its banking app in neighboring Germany. Switzerland is late to Bitcoin funds despite. . .

Nine issuers, including Broadcom and Verizon, objected to OKXICE tokenized-share trading under the SEC’s temporary venue-specific framework.

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A federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Alvin Hellerstein, rejected the joint bid by the Gemini crypto exchange (NASDAQ: GEMI) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to remove a permanent order barring the exchange from misleading the US regulator. Judge Hellerstein of the SDNY declined to reopen a consent order that. . .

As the Bank of Russia moves to regulate the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency in the country through the Federal Law No. 282-FZ, which sets the legal rules for cryptocurrencies and digital rights in Russia, the central bank has established that transactions must be conducted strictly through state-supervised intermediaries and organized trading. The Bank of Russia updated that transfer of digital currency – including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and XRP – to non-custodial or sel