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Fraud Fest 2021: Cryptocurrency, regulation and illicit activities

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Thomson Reuters recently released a report on the state of cryptocurrencies, which studied regulations involving them around the world. At the Berkeley Fraud Fest, Todd Ehret, author of the report, joined Gina Jurva, also of Thomson Reuters, to talk about the report and its findings.

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In search of regulatory certainty

They noted that cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin have been making news headlines on a daily basis. U.S. financial regulators like Gary Gensler, the incoming chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, are widely viewed as crypto-friendly.

Many enthusiasts expect a crypto regulatory framework to be developed under his leadership, but the SEC recently released...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.