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March 17, 2026
SEC Draws Lines With Crypto 'Token Taxonomy' Guidance
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shared its anticipated "token taxonomy" on Tuesday, issuing interpretive guidance that detailed which types of cryptocurrency assets appear to be beyond the reach of securities laws and the circumstances that could pull them back into the regulator's oversight as part of an investment contract.
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March 17, 2026
OFAC Fines Broker $1.1M Over Apparent Sanctions Violations
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Tuesday announced that Florida brokerage TradeStation Securities Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1.1 million to settle potential civil liability for violating the regulator's sanctions programs for Iran, Syria and Crimea.
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March 17, 2026
BlackRock Must Face Ex-VP's Whistleblower Retaliation Suit
BlackRock Inc. must face a suit in New York state court by a former vice president who alleges he faced retaliation and wrongful termination after raising concerns about self-dealing, corruption and conflicts of interest, with a state judge partially rejecting the asset manager's bid to dismiss the case.
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March 17, 2026
Amici Chide Trump Admin For Calling Anthropic A Security Risk
In separate amicus briefs to the D.C. Circuit, the ACLU, tech industry groups, former government officials and moral theologians variously panned the Trump administration's designation of Anthropic PBC as a supply chain risk to national security as unjustified, unlawful and counterproductive.
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March 17, 2026
Bitcoin Depot's Conn. License In Limbo After Watchdog Probe
Connecticut's banking watchdog has temporarily barred cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Depot from transmitting money, warning of possible civil penalties up to $100,000 per violation and accusing the entity of charging transaction fees above a 15% statutory cap.
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