New Fed bank chief targets crypto and climate change as top priorities
President Joe Biden will nominate Michael Barr to be the Federal Reserve’s top regulator in charge of big banks. Barr, who served as Assistant Treasury Secretary...
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The $300 billion meme stock that makes GameStop look like a piece of cake
The Reddit logo is seen on a smartphone in front of a displayed Wall Street Bets logo in this illustration taken on January 28, 2021. Dado...
Coinbase shares rise on rebound from meme traders, BlackRock crypto deal
The logo of Coinbase Global Inc, the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, is displayed on the Nasdaq MarketSite jumbotron and others in Times Square in New York,...
Wall Street and the problem of “too many listed fintechs”
In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the first Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. A decade ago, the idea that...
The world’s largest bitcoin fund is suing the SEC for rejecting crypto-ETFs
Digital currency manager Grayscale is suing the US Securities and Exchange Commission in response to the recent rejection of the company’s potential spot bitcoin exchange traded...
Sam Bankman-Fried has “a few billion” to help the crypto industry
Sam Bankman-Fried, head of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX, said he and his company still have some “a few billion” on hand to support...
Bitcoin falls briefly below $ 30,000 as cryptocurrency sales continue
Bitcoin rose to new heights in 2021 when companies such as Tesla and Mastercard went up to crypto. But with regulators circling in, the path ahead...