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WASHINGTON — Coinbase, a leading cryptocurrency firm, has approached U.S. regulators about registering as a licensed brokerage firm and electronic - trading venue, a move that comes as regulators have waged an aggressive campaign to supervise the fledgling industry.

The bubbling interest comes as regulators grow increasingly worried about debt levels and the capacity of ordinary households to pay back big loans on expensive houses.

The announcement came as the regulator ordered bitcoin options trading platform Coinflip, and its CEO Francisco Riordan, to cease trading due to it not registering and complying with its regulations.

Her comments came as the regulator, Ofsted, warned of a hardcore of underachieving schools that were struggling to recruit teachers.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) BRF employees paid bribes to regulators and politicians to subvert inspections in order to conceal unsanitary practices at the Company's meatpacking plants; (ii) the foregoing conduct, when it came to light, would foreseeably subject the Company and its officers to heightened regulatory enforcement and / or prosecution; and (iii) as a result of the foregoing, BRF's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Should the Justice Department move to block the deal, it would come as something of a surprise, especially considering that the Justice Department's top antitrust regulator, Makan Delrahim, even said earlier this year that he did not think the deal presented a «major antitrust problem» due to the fact that neither of the two companies directly competes in the same spaces.

In 2005 the company agreed to pay a $ 1.1 million fine after the EPA alleged that VW had received numerous reports in 1999 and 2000 about a defective exhaust part, which was causing excess carbon monoxide and other dangerous emissions, but failed to report the defect to regulators, as required, until the EPA came across it in a random test.

The allegations come from workers at the bank regulator known as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), which maintains a database of suspicious transactions in the U.S..

In the coming year, Prompt Alert plans to set up a base in Washington D.C. as a means of staying close to politicians, health care regulators and lobbyists.

The deal, which would combine the third - and fourth - largest US wireless carriers, is expected to come under serious scrutiny from antitrust regulators, as the Trump administration has fervently opposed AT&T's proposed mega-acquisition of Time Warner.

«As [technology] continues to accelerate and continues to increase, regulators have got to understand what it is that the innovation's coming up with and we're still trying to get educated,» he said.

Although far from complete, it is as close as Ottawa has come to establishing a national regulator since the late Jim Flaherty took the issue on as almost a personal crusade shortly after taking office in 2006.

Health insurance companies are exploring new ways to diversify their revenues with acquisitions in acute care after federal regulators blocked two major mergers in the sector, and insurance exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, came under pressure from Republicans.

The new law is the nation's first formal approval of the industry after its come under scrutiny across many states for allowing what regulators see as illegal online gambling.

Since then, commodities trading has come under pressure at big banks as funding costs have risen and regulators have clamped on their ability to make bets with their own money.

Regulators have asked more companies, including Delta Airlines and Zara, to correct content on their websites in which they list Taiwan as a «country,» coming a day after Marriott International's website and app in China were shut down for one week for the same reason.

Valeant shares are down 85 % this year, and 95 % since their peak price in summer 2015, as accounting errors have led to a criminal investigation of its practices and its drug - price increases have come under fire with regulators.

When financial panics do come, regulators should be as consistent as possible in their responses to troubled financial institutions, ensuring that creditors know where their investments stand and thus don't run to dump them when good times give way to bad.

The decision by the firm comes as it continues to face potential investigations and sanctions from regulators around the world.

The survey also uncovered broad disagreement over the proper role of shareholders, industry groups and regulators when it comes to improving corporate reporting and driving change on issues such as gender diversity among directors.

The payment comes as Qualcomm's patent licensing business is increasingly under attack from government regulators and smartphone makers.

In fact, what should be a celebratory coming - of - age moment for the Southeast Asian local champion is threatening to become nightmarish thanks to persistent regulators, panicky Uber staff and reluctant drivers who are supposed to switch to Grab as part of the arrangement.

Robin Zhu, chief operating officer at Huobi, is quoted as saying in January 2017: «The regulator wanted to grab a big picture of how significant cryptocurrency trading was in China — how does bitcoin work; where does the money come from; where does it go to; how do people make and lose money?»

France is often recognized as being one of the strictest financial regulators in Europe especially when it comes to trading using leverages, currencies and binary options.

As regulators start to pay more attention and the hype surrounding Bitcoin and its ilk fades, it may very well be that the recent selloff is a harbinger of tougher times to come.

Beyond China, Uber is particularly focused on making inroads in India, as well as buttressing its existing operations in Europe, which have frequently come under attack from local regulators.

MARCUS STANLEY, AMERICANS FOR FINANCIAL REFORM: If we see regulators ease up and loosen the rules as actually we «ve been seeing since this administration came in, and if folks in the market have n`t learned the lessons from the last crisis, then that could be an issue.

The moves come as authorised advisors tell their clients to be intensely cautious, and advise that the bonds regulator could come down on them for breaching rules.

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The announcement came as no surprise, since golf's governing bodies proclaimed in November their intent to ban the stroke, which players make by jamming belly or longer putters into various parts of their bodies, and which the regulators believed inhibited the «skill and challenge» that was «integral to the traditions of the game.»

Outgoing Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy on Monday said he will adhere to any guidance offered by ethics regulators when it comes to his new post as the CEO of the Rochester Business Alliance.

The local push also comes as Uber has faced some negative press over the last several weeks, most recently the departure of top - level executives and a record $ 98,000 fine from state lobbying regulators.

Meanwhile exam regulator Ofqual has been rebuked by MPs on the education committee, who said its role in qualification design was likely to come «under significant pressure» as the GCSE reforms progress.

The move announced by the Department of Financial Services comes after regulators found some providers have charged the prevailing fee or more outside of New York, which has led to inflated claims and deplted coverage as well more lawsuits and increased premiums.

Pruitt's statements also came as EPA's Science Advisory Board remains deadlocked after years of debate on the best way to advise regulators on how to account for emissions from burning biomass.

The new findings come on the heels of a series of pivotal discoveries made by Yuan and colleagues over the last decade revealing RIPK1 as a key regulator of inflammation and cell death.

The main issue is that due to a mix of genetics and conditioning from the environment, the endomorph body isn't particularly efficient when it comes to using insulin as blood sugar regulator.

The exam regulator has released the outcome of its consultation into resits for legacy GCSE, AS and A level exams in preparation of new exams coming into force.

Mr McKenzie's resignation came as the exam boards and the exam regulator Ofqual were given more time to consider a legal challenge from teaching unions, schools and local authorities asking them to regrade English GCSE papers.

Mitsubishi is having a hard time getting its Outlander plug - in hybrid launch off the ground, as yet another delay will postpone its arrival date in the U.S. California regulators requested that the Mitsubishi Outlander plug - in hybrid come equipped with a battery monitoring system, according to Automotive News, to diagnose battery capacity and degradation.

In some cars, the window motor comes with the window regulator as one unit; in others, the window motor can be replaced separately.

Instead, the model came under attack from US regulators who saw it as a competition violation.

Rather than simply urge the CCTS to release the survey results quickly, the regulator has ordered it to do so — a move that came as a pleasant surprise to Howard Deane of the Consumer Council of Canada, who has been pushing the watchdog on the issue.

The decision comes as the broadcast regulator fields hundreds of calls about the slimmed - down basic TV packages that came into effect March 1.

Initially, a number of European financial regulators came out with statements saying that Binary Options were not under the remit of MiFID as they were strictly speaking not financial instruments.

The regulatory action comes amidst a sustained crackdown on unregulated and less - than - reputable brokers operating in Cyprus, as the regulator attempts to protect customers from unlicensed brokers that exhibit predatory practices.

These options, called insect growth regulators (IGR) or insect growth inhibitors (IGI), first appeared more than 15 years ago as products to be applied in the home and now come in pill or topical form, often given / applied monthly, for pets.

In recent months, as the furore around video game loot crates has exacerbated with the likes of Shadow of War, Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Call of Duty: WW2 all coming under fire for their microtransactions, some have called on video game regulators to step in.

-- might seem to suggest that neutron embrittlement and cold embrittlement have recently come as a great surprise to reactor designers and regulators.

As the idea of a dramatic transition to a clean energy economy in the coming decades takes hold in the Northeast particularly, how does such a speaker get invited to address a group that environmentalists, politicians and regulators expect to help drive this shift?