Crypto companies are moving their money from banks to asset managers as the turmoil in global banks continue, but industry insiders don’t see the bank failures as the end of banking for the crypto sector. The turmoil in the banking industry has so far led to three major bank failures in the US with the…
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It’s unclear whether Anchorage Digital’s layoffs relate to the current turmoil in the U.S. banking sector. Crypto bank Anchorage Digital announced it would be letting go of 75 employees, representing approximately 20% of its workforce, citing regulatory uncertainty in the United States as a factor in its decision. In a March 14 statement Anchorage labeled the…
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After the failure of three major U.S. banks last week, with two of them being the second and third largest banking failures in the country, Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the rating of the U.S. banking system from “stable” to “negative.” As one of the “Big Three” credit rating firms, Moody’s cited a “rapid deterioration…
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The decision to close down Signature Bank had “nothing to do with crypto,” said the New York State Department of Financial Services, the regulator that took possession of the troubled bank on Sunday. The financial watchdog insisted that its decision to put Signature Bank in receivership “was based on the current status of the bank…
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While Signature’s Barney Frank referred to the recent events with SVB as an “anti-crypto message,” Trezor’s Josef Tětek said they are “definitely good” for Bitcoin. The ongoing crisis of banks in the United States has many positive implications for Bitcoin (BTC), according to an executive at the hardware wallet firm Trezor. On March 14, Bitcoin…
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Some of the biggest firms in crypto have denied exposure to any of the failed banks in the United States. Amid the ongoing United States banking crisis, a wide number of major cryptocurrency firms have denied exposure to dissolved U.S. banks like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). As potential implications of the SVB crisis for the…
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Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has announced that it has millions of dollars in corporate cash balance with Signature Bank, which was recently shut down. The news came via a Twitter thread on March 13, revealing that Coinbase had around $240 million with the bank as of the close of…
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Barney Frank, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, discussed his opinion on the recent failure of Signature Bank. In an interview, Frank stated that he believes regulators aimed to “send a very strong anti-crypto message.” Frank, who also serves as a Signature…
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Circle Financial, the issuer of the stablecoin USDC, is partnering with Cross River Bank after its former settlement partner, Signature Bank, was closed by New York regulators, according to a statement from CEO Jeremy Allaire. “The 1:1 redeemability of all USDC in circulation is of paramount importance to Circle,” Allaire emphasized. Crypto Firms Scramble for…
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