A Wall Street Journal report says that the central bank's boss, Christine Lagarde, who has previously bashed Bitcoin and is pro-CBDCs, stopped Binance getting a foothold in the European Union.
Anchorage Digital and Binance launched off-exchange settlement for institutional crypto trading, allowing institutions to trade on Binance while keeping their assets in segregated custody at Anchorage Digital Bank instead of on the exchange.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has requested updates from the DOJ and FinCEN on monitors overseeing Binance, citing AML compliance concerns, according to Fortune.