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Australia's corporate, markets and financial services regulator. It licenses financial firms, enforces consumer law and issues product intervention orders.
ASIC has opened consultation on CP 392, which offers crypto platforms three alternative capital models, with feedback due Nov. 27. Final standards are due in March 2027, at most 38 days before the law takes effect on April 8.
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ASIC proposed on October 12 to extend its CFD product intervention order to 2037 and bring contracts settled in digital assets inside it. Feedback is due November 9, and the extension needs ministerial approval.
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The November term sheet would have left Currenc's own shareholders with 5% of the combined Nasdaq company. Animoca says it still wants a listing. Its 2024 audit is still being prepared.
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Fix Victoria spent up to $100,000 in August on AI-generated attack imagery, more than most parties managed, and because its ads never name a party the state's disclosure rules never reach its donors.
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Hong Kong's regulator named SBCFX and five related identities as unlicensed, which warns the next customer. The deposits from as many as 3,000 liquidated gold accounts went in as USDT, where recovery runs through an issuer's freeze desk.
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Impersonation of named executives, economists and politicians has moved from nuisance to regulated-scale fraud. The takedown pipeline is now an operating function, not a PR reflex.
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