Wall Street banks constitute the majority of companies involved in communications and record-keeping investigations conducted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Banks have collectively been fined or have set aside more than $1 billion to cover regulatory penalties. This is why asset managers are …
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A number of US banks including Goldman Sachs are considering how to use bitcoin as security for cash loans to institutions.Banks such as Goldman will not touch cryptocurrency spot markets but still tend to synthetic crypto products such as futures. Emulating tri-party repo type arrangements, banks are searching for ways …
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