It looks like we have a Binance settlement with the CFTC. Check out the latest reports about this below.
CZ will personally pay $150,000,000
A settlement between Binance and the US derivatives markets regulator has been approved by a federal court.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged Binance and its founder, Changpeng Zhao, with violating the regulator’s rules and laws governing commodity futures trading in the United States.
“In formalizing the settlement initially announced on November 21, the court finds Zhao and Binance violated the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations, imposes a $150 million civil monetary penalty personally against Zhao, and requires Binance to disgorge $1.35 billion of ill-gotten transaction fees and pay a $1.35 billion penalty to the CFTC.”
Last month, the CFTC came to an agreement with Binance’s founder, Zhao, to pay a hefty sum of $2.7 billion in penalties to settle charges filed by the derivatives markets regulator.
As per the agreement, Zhao resigned from the position of CEO of the crypto exchange and is currently facing criminal charges.
The CFTC accused Binance and its founder of operating an illegal digital asset derivatives exchange, acting as an unregistered futures commission merchant (FCM), and failing to maintain adequate know-your-customer compliance controls, among other illegal activities.
Last week, the CFTC Chair, Rostin Behnam, made a statement that Zhao could face imprisonment.
“The sentencing will be taking a bit of time. So I think law enforcement, both criminal and civil, we work together [and] we feel like we got a bad actor here and it’s sending a clear message.”
A few days ago, we revealed the fact that the exchange has warned its customers about an upcoming maintenance procedure.
The exchange has stated that it will conduct a standard operation on their wallets over the next few days.
Binance has also informed its users that they may notice large cryptocurrency transfers on various blockchains made from their wallets, but there is no need to worry as Binance has assured its community that their assets are safe.