US SEC examines octopuses for selling non -registered securities: report

US SEC examines octopuses for selling non -registered securities: report

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) examines the great American Krypto exchange rrinted on US investors because of their non-registered securities offers.

The examination is in an advanced stage and octopuses will probably settle with the SEC in the coming days, Bloomberg Wednesday, citing the matter.

Kraken in search of securities offers

According to the report, the supervisory authority examines whether the crypto exchange has violated the offers of American customers against securities laws. The case was not published, so the tokens and offers examined are unknown.

The settlement of the regulatory authority could make other crypto companies to contact the SEC for registration transactions, as the agency has always recommended.

In December, the second chairman Gary Gensler asked the crypto companies to register with the securities supervision in a conversation with Bloomberg, since the runway was shorter.

Gensler is firmly convinced that almost all crypto-assets except Bitcoin securities. He repeated that most crypto exchanges do not offer registered securities and thus violate federal laws.

not the first

Kraken problem with the SEC is not the first rodeo of the stock exchange with US supervisory authorities. At the end of last year, the company agreed with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Ministry of Finance because it had helped users in Iran to handle sanctions against them.

the OFAC discovered that octopuses processed around $ 1.68 million in $ 826 transactions to Iranian users. As reported of cryptopotato , the crypto exchange agreed to include the case with a fine of over $ 362,000 and an additional $ 100,000 for checks for compliance with sanctions. The fine could have amounted to over $ 272 million, but was reduced thanks to compliance with octopuses.

In the meantime, the stock exchange of a growing list of crypto companies has joined the SEC official investigating due to securities. The list contains Coinbase, whose former employee was charged with two others for an insider trade.

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