In this article of cointelegraph, the various reasons for regulators to mobilize against #Binance are explained, Binance the biggest #cryptoexchange worldwide and barely regulated / authorized.
The reasons in a nutshell:
- Binance mostly not regulated licenced by local authorities from a #AML or investor protection perspective
- Binance having issued a defective own crypto financial product, the Binance Leveraged Token (BLVT) and regulators feel deemed to protect themselves of charges not to have intervened
- Stablecoins and particularly USDT (#Tether) under regulator’s scrutiny, and USDT is very strongly interlinked with Binance (and vice versa)
- Binance as the biggest crypto exchange being a good scapegoat to remember the investors of the imminent risk to deal with unregulated exchanges in general
- Still a lack of international clarity on legal and regulatory standards for the entire crypto scene, hence at times seemingly arbitrary interventions of authorities
Full article here
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