United States SEC Fines Online Trading Platform eToro $1.5 Million for Providing Unauthorised Securities in Crypto Assets & to Provide Only Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash & Ether Trading
14th September 2024 | Hong Kong
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined online trading platform eToro $1.5 million for providing unauthorised securities in crypto assets, and to provide only Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash & Ether trading. United States SEC (12/9/24): “The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that eToro USA LLC has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle charges that it operated an unregistered broker and unregistered clearing agency in connection with its trading platform that facilitated buying and selling certain crypto assets as securities. eToro has agreed to cease and desist from violating the applicable federal securities laws and will make only a limited set of crypto assets available for trading. The SEC’s order finds that, since at least 2020, eToro operated as a broker and clearing agency by providing U.S. customers the ability, through eToro’s online trading platform, to trade crypto assets being offered and sold as securities, but eToro did not comply with the registration provisions of the federal securities laws. eToro publicly announced that, going forward and subject to the provisions of the SEC’s order in this matter, the only crypto assets that U.S. customers can trade on the company’s platform will be Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Ether. eToro publicly announced that it will provide its customers with functionality to sell all other crypto assets for only 180 days after the issuance of the SEC’s order. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, eToro agreed to the entry of a cease-and-desist order, to pay a penalty of $1.5 million, and, within 187 days of the order, to liquidate any crypto assets being offered and sold as securities that eToro is unable to transfer to its customers, and return the proceeds to the respective customers.”
“ United States SEC Fines Online Trading Platform eToro $1.5 Million for Providing Unauthorised Securities in Crypto Assets & to Provide Only Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash & Ether Trading “
United States SEC Fines Online Trading Platform eToro $1.5 Million for Providing Unauthorised Securities in Crypto Assets & to Provide Only Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash & Ether Trading
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