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On 19 January, Financial News scored an exclusive interview with the Financial Conduct Authority's digital assets director Matthew Long.

One of the biggest reasons why NFT art is often successful is the person creating the digital asset - similar to what happens in real-world art. One of the most well-known artists in the NFT space is migwashere, the man behind the art in the legendary Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. Little needs to be said about this, as BAYC has entered the public consciousness - whether that’s inside the crypto industry or in the wider world.

Man Group's Robyn Grew is no stranger to a challenge. Her career includes a stint in Lehman Brothers' compliance team, for a start. She also proudly identifies as part of the LGBTQ+ community.

A man has been charged with criminal offenses in the US for allegedly attempting to steal around $110 million by manipulating Mango Markets, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange. The suspect is accused of committing commodities fraud and manipulation.

Police have arrested a man who is accused of trying to steal around $110 million (€103 million) from a cryptocurrency exchange.

South Korean police have charged a man in his twenties with embezzlement and fraud – claiming that, during his military service, he fueled his crypto trading habits by selling bogus concert tickets online.

Stocks and bonds have been pummeled this year. But bets on hedge funds have paid off for the giant Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

A 25 year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing more than $20m worth of crypto as part of a SIM swapping scheme.

The CEO of a South Korean crypto exchange who was found guilty of murdering his lover by stabbing her and pushing her out of a 19th-storey apartment window has had his appeal rejected – and will serve 25 years in prison.

When the Bank of England stepped in to calm the gilt market in September and save pension funds from collapse, hedge fund Man Group didn’t panic — its quants had seen similar situations in other markets before.

A South Korean man was handed a host of punishments after a court found him guilty of buying narcotics online – using bitcoin (BTC).

"FTX, along with a number of other centralised crypto trading platforms, appear to operate as conglomerates, bundling products and functions within one firm. In conventional finance these functions are either separated into different entities or managed with tight controls and ring-fences," Cunliffe told his audience.The man in charge of financial stability at the BofE stressed: "Technology in and of itself does not change the need for transparency in corporate structures, governance, audit and systems and controls - for example to protect customers’ funds."Cunliffe says that crypto should be regulated for three reasons: to protect investors, to protect financial stability, and to foster innovation.The third reason "may appear counter intuitive to those who see regulation as opposed to innovation.

Liontrust and Pictet Asset Management picked up the big prizes at Financial News’ Excellence in Institutional Fund Management Awards last night.

The Justice Department said on 6 November it had seized cryptocurrency once valued at $3.36bn from a Georgia man who pleaded guilty to stealing bitcoin from the Silk Road online marketplace.

Xi Jinping’s new right-hand man, Li Qiang, has shown two sides to his personality over his career.

Ross Mtangi, a trading executive at Credit Suisse, left his Manhattan penthouse in March 2021 with his laptop and told his pregnant partner he was going to work.

Private equity veteran Guy Hands accused the Conservatives of putting the UK economy “on a path to be the sick man of Europe”, heading for an International Monetary Fund bailout.

A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star’s career, finding he did not sexually abuse Anthony Rapp, then 14, while both were in Broadway plays in 1986.

An executive news director at the national South Korean broadcaster KBS received “crypto” from a figure at the head of an organization with alleged ties to North Korea, an official audit has revealed.

A New York man is facing 25 years in prison, after being convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.

A South Korean company employee whole stole over $2.8 million worth of his firm’s money to buy crypto has been handed a five-year prison sentence.