Bitcoin fell to the lowest price level since the US approved nearly a dozen exchange-traded funds that hold the cryptocurrency last week.

Canada's securities agency CSA is preparing to publish a new regulation regarding cryptocurrencies. Continue Reading: New Regulation on Cryptocurrencies from the Canadian SEC, CSA

Graham Steele, U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, calls for establishing crypto regulation standards to preempt potential crises.

Graham Steele, U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, calls for establishing crypto regulation standards to preempt potential crises.

The European Council and Parliament have provisionally agreed on stricter regulations for cryptocurrency firms to enhance anti-money laundering measures in the sector.

In light of the enthusiasm for large multimodal language models (LMM), the WHO released a detailed report on Thursday, January 18, 2024. It includes over 40 recommendations to strictly regulate the development and use of AI technologies in the medical and healthcare fields. AI ch...

The European Council and Parliament have provisionally agreed on stricter regulations for cryptocurrency firms to enhance anti-money laundering measures in the sector.

Lawmakers in the U.S. need to take action before the next crisis to develop standards to regulate crypto, a U.S. Treasury official warned.

The generative AI boom has continued to run markets and conversations, whereas the future of AI regulation is still unclear. Speaking with Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman and Brian Sozzi World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft (MSFT) Vice Chair President Brad Smith discusses the company's plans to expand its AI capabilities, calling generative AI "the defining technology of our lifetime, certainly this decade without question." While acknowledging "there's always a risk of technology being overhyped," Smith believes generative AI is truly "transformational," with the power to fundamentally reshape workflows and daily lives for businesses and consumers. By augmenting Microsoft products with AI tools like Copilot, Smith notes the tech giant's aim is to make products "more useful for people." Asked about rapid AI advancement, Smith doesn't think it's progressing too quickly, but stresses the need to move forward with "with safety and innovation at the same speed" through collaborative governance. "Of course, there's a risk that in some ways regulation will go too far, there always is," Smith says. However, given social media's unchecked rise previously, he argues "we don't want to do that a second time" with AI. It's all part of Yahoo Finance's exclusive coverage from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where our team will speak to top decision-makers as well as preeminent leaders in business, finance, and politics about the world’s most pressing issues and priorities for the coming year. Watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live here. Editor's note: This article was written by Angel Smith.

The legal battle between the SEC and Coinbase reaches another turning point. A U.S. judge has indeed begun to question the foundations of cryptocurrency regulation in the United States. Adjourned. The @SECGov's summation of its argument (broadly) is that @coinbase is making up a ...

While the crypto world is abuzz with excitement after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved trading of spot bitcoin ETFs, traditional investors are still awaiting further regulatory precautions before going in on crypto assets, according to a Harris Poll on Grayscale's behalf. Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein — whose company runs its own bitcoin trust ETF (GBTC) — sits down with Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman and Brian Sozzi from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to discuss these poll results surveying American voters and whether crypto is on voters' minds when casting their in the 2024 US presidential election. "When it comes to new technologies like crypto, like bitcoin, they [voters] believe crypto is the future of finance," Sonnenshein states. "On the heels of the spot bitcoin ETF approval, we'll see further engagement from our congressional leaders around legislation to really see that [regulation] move forward." Sonnenshein also touches upon artificial intelligence's role in the crypto space. It's all part of Yahoo Finance's exclusive coverage from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where our team will speak to top decision-makers as well as preeminent leaders in business, finance, and politics about the world’s most pressing issues and priorities for the coming year. Watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live here. Editor's note: This article was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.

The European Council and Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on key aspects of a new anti-money laundering (AML) package, signaling tighter regulations for cryptocurrency firms. The announcement, made on Thursday, outlined that the proposed rules would encompass “most...

The Monetary Authority of Singapore has warned retail investors against buying spot Bitcoin ETFs following U.S. approval

If approved, the proposed rules would require crypto firms to conduct due diligence on transactions worth at least $1,090.

Explore the latest in global crypto regulations around the globe. This includes the EU, which has updated AML laws for crypto providers.

The European Union has provisionally agreed on new anti-money laundering (AML) regulations specifically targeting the crypto sector. According to a press release published by the European Council, the provisional agreement reached by Council and the Parliament focuses on enhancin...

The former US president said in a campaign speech in New Hampshire that he won’t allow a central bank digital currency if he gets elected.

The IRS and the Treasury announced on Jan. 16 that controversial new transaction reporting rules do not apply to digital transactions.

1 EBA has recently reformed guidelines around crypto asset service providers (CASPs). 2 The main aim of these amendments is to reduce the vulnerability to money laundering and terrorist financing. On January 16, 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) of the European Union sha...

Expectation of profit is not enough to deem tokens securities, Coinbase argued in court with the SEC on Wednesday.