Latam Insights: Paraguay Unveils Bitcoin Mining Centric Development Strategy, Itau Unibanco Rolls Crypto Trading for All Customers

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news during the last week. In this issue: Paraguay unveiled a bitcoin mining-centric strategy, Itau Unibanco rolled out crypto trading services for all its customers, and…

Crypto Broker Fined Nearly $1.7M for Illegally Providing Access to Digital Asset Exchanges

On May 13, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced it had fined crypto brokerage firm Falcon Labs Ltd. approximately $1.7 million. The fines are penalties for the firm’s illegal facilitation of U.S. residents’ access to digital asset derivative exchanges. The…

Crackdown on Crypto Investment Scam Leads to Massive Raids in Argentina: $100 Million Operation Uncovered

The detainment of two Chinese and one Argentine national involved in a $1.25 million crypto investment scam led to the discovery of a $100 million operation in Argentina. According to local reports, the investigation resulted in the raid of a…