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Russian Crypto Exchange Moves Money for Gaza Groups, Report

[Oct 16, 2023 5:30 AM] Palestinian militant organizations, including a Hamas-linked Islamist group, have been using a Moscow-based crypto exchange to transfer millions, a press report revealed. The U.S.-sanctioned platform, which allows customers to convert Russian cash…

Moscow Exchange Plans to Issue Real Estate Digital Assets by 2024

[Oct 14, 2023 12:30 AM] The Moscow Exchange, the largest exchange in Russia, has announced plans to issue real estate digital assets in 2024. According to Sergei Kharinov, director of digital assets for the platform, this will lower the entry barrier for qualified and…

Estonia-Licensed Crypto Firms Blamed for €1 Billion in Damages

[Oct 9, 2023 10:30 PM] Bad actors exploited Estonia’s once liberal licensing regime for crypto companies to defraud investors and commit other crimes, an investigative report claims. The authors say they discovered dozens of such cases, including scams and schemes for…

Amidst Legal Battle, Binance to Exit Russia

[Oct 6, 2023 10:30 AM] The below is a piece from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine's premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox, subscribe now…

Russian Banker States SWIFT ‘Needs to Be Killed’

[Oct 3, 2023 3:30 AM] Andrei Kostin, head of the VTB Bank, one of the biggest banks in Russia, has stated that the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the standard messaging system for fiat payments, “needs to be killed.”…

Binance fully exits Russia with sale to CommEX

[Sep 27, 2023 2:14 AM] The financial details of the deal remain undisclosed. However, as a full exit from Russia, Binance will have no ongoing revenue split, nor any option to buy back shares, the companies said.

FBI Wanted Co-Founder of Crypto Exchange Wex Sentenced in Russia

[Sep 24, 2023 1:30 AM] Aleksey Bilyuchenko, co-founder of Wex, the successor of the infamous Russian crypto exchange BTC-e, will spend only a couple of years in prison. The Russian, who is charged in the U.S. with money laundering, has been sentenced in his homeland as…

Binance Mulls Leaving Russia, Limits Options for Russian Users

[Aug 29, 2023 10:30 PM] Crypto exchange Binance considers exiting Russia amid increased scrutiny over its services for users in the sanctioned nation. The news of the potential move comes after the exchange delisted several sanctioned Russian banks from its peer-to-peer…

Binance Removes Sanctioned Russian Banks From P2P Platform

[Aug 28, 2023 12:00 AM] Crypto exchange Binance has dropped Russian banks under sanctions from the payment options on its peer-to-peer (P2P) platform. Russian traders can no longer use cards issued by these banks to make payments while transactions in foreign fiat…