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Midweek Roundup: Binance Seeks to Ease US Oversight, Anchorage Digital Faces Federal Scrutiny, and More

Binance executives have asked the U.S. Treasury Department to remove a monitor overseeing the cryptocurrency exchange's compliance with U.S. anti-money laundering rules amid talks with the Trump family's digital assets venture, World Liberty Financial, over an unrelated deal to launch a stablecoin, The Wall Street Journal reported. More The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's El Dorado Task Force, which probes transnational money laundering schemes, launched an investigation into the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency lender Anchorage Digital, Barron's reported. More A U.K. court jailed Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, the Kremlin-appointed former governor of Sevastopol, a strategically important city in Russian-occupied Crimea, for 40 months after finding him...

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