Federal Court Orders BitMEX to Pay $100 Million for Illegally Operating a Cryptocurrency Trading Platform and Anti-Money Laundering Violations Other enforcement

CFTC release 8412-21 · 2021-08-10 · view on cftc.gov ↗

Key facts

Release number: 8412-21
Release date: 2021-08-10
Type: Other enforcement
Primary source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8412-21

About CFTC enforcement

The CFTC charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and commodity-pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension. Crypto-asset cases have been a major share since 2019.