Senate Democratic staff found 84% of 846 Iran-linked sanctioned wallets moved almost only in Tether's USDT. Most came from Israel's list, and any penalty rests with a Treasury and Justice Department that Senator Blumenthal says have enforced nothing.
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Senate staff say Tether froze 5 of 39 Hezbollah-linked wallets Israel named in 2023 while $34.6 million left the rest. Treasury and the Justice Department can act on that freeze record more readily than on the report's 84% USDT share when they answer Blumenthal by Oct. 9.
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Amazon kept Meta's Muse out of its cart with a line in its own terms of service. Investors are already pricing which other intermediaries could say the same thing to an agent.
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Cantor Fitzgerald lifted its BitMine target from $30.60 to $63.60 on September 10 while the shares traded near $24.20. The case rests on a 5.93 million ETH treasury and a call that the crypto drawdown bottoms in October.
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The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund's 25th-anniversary anthology records how the firm built its duty to 658 families into job titles, an annual service and one interview question, and puts no figures on the cost.
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A closed-end fund distributed $1.74bn over eight fiscal years while earning about a third of it, covering the gap by issuing shares above NAV. The premium is now a discount.
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A rejected $60.50-a-share bid has become a negotiation over price, and the structural antitrust objection points at the two assets integrators care about most: Braintree and Venmo.
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