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Mr Ashley’s company, once known as Sports Direct, has now upped its shareholding from 7.4pc to 8.8pc. The retail tycoon has been steadily buying up shares in Asos since October, when his company Frasers disclosed a stake of around 5pc.

#Binance fees us full

Senior business reporter Daniel Woolfson has the full story: Mike Ashley has raised his stake in Asos amid mounting tension between the Frasers owner and a rival billionaire shareholder over the online retailer’s future. In the meantime, we’ll continue to operate our business as usual”. He added: “The solution is legislation that allows fair rules for the road to be developed transparently and applied equally, not litigation. Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, said: “The SEC’s reliance on an enforcement-only approach in the absence of clear rules for the digital asset industry is hurting America’s economic competitiveness and companies like Coinbase that have a demonstrated commitment to compliance.” In a social media post, Binance said that it has been cooperating with the SEC’s investigation but said that the regulator “chose to act unilaterally and litigate”.

The charges echo accusations levelled at FTX, once the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, and its founder Sam Bankman-Fried after its collapse last year. The lawsuit filed by the SEC lists thirteen charges against Binance, including mingling and diverting customer assets to an entity Mr Zhao owned called Sigma Chain. In April, the cryptocurrency was worth £24,500.

The price of bitcoin has fallen by about 5pc since Monday to trade at around £20,500 on Tuesday afternoon. Investors have pulled around $780m (£628m) from Binance in 24 hours following the SEC’s charges, data company Nansen said. In court filings the SEC claimed Binance’s former chief compliance officer Samuel Lim, who left the company last year, messaged a colleague in December 2018 saying: “We are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro”.

Mr Zhao added in a separate post addressing the Coinbase lawsuit on Tuesday: “If you have to pick a fight with everyone, maybe you are the one at fault.” Responding to a post from Mr Gensler on Twitter announcing the SEC’s case against Binance, Mr Zhao said: “Wonder if he ever reads the comments under his post, from the consumers he is suppose to protect.” The charges come just one day after the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, was similarly accused by the SEC of breaking US securities laws.īinance and its founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao were accused of orchestrating a “web of deception” as the SEC charged them with misusing investor funds, operating as an unregistered exchange and violating securities regulations. Shares in the crypto exchange tumbled more than 16pc in premarket trading after the lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court. The regulator’s chairman Gary Gensler said: “Coinbase’s alleged failures deprive investors of critical protections, including rulebooks that prevent fraud and manipulation, proper disclosure, safeguards against conflicts of interest, and routine inspection by the SEC.”

The SEC has accused Coinbase of illegally operating without having first registered with the regulator, a legal requirement for companies trading securities in the US. Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has been sued by US regulators a day after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged Binance and its founder had broken trading laws.