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Weekly Roundup: Binance Curried Favor with Kremlin, OCC Dings Anchorage Digital, and More

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, agreed last year to give Russia's financial intelligence unit data on campaign donations to opposition activist Aleksei Nayalny's organization as part of a broader effort to build relationships with the Kremlin and expand its footprint in the country, Reuters reported. More To comply with EU sanctions, Binance now plans to stop Russian individuals and entities from holding more than €10,000 worth of digital tokens at home or overseas, Bloomberg reported. More The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency entered into a consent order with South Dakota-based Anchorage Digital Bank for failing to...

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