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Santander Private Bank introduces Bitcoin, Ethereum trading for clients in Switzerland — link

Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling $176m last week in a continuation of consecutive weekly inflows that has now lasted 8 weeks, bringing year-to-date inflows to $1.32bn — link

Japan’s Osaka Digital Exchange to start digital securities trading next month — link

Crypto exchange Bullish buys 100% of CoinDesk from DCG — link

Tether freezes 225m in stolen USDT linked to an international human trafficking syndicate — link

21Shares & ARK amends its Bitcoin ETF spot filing, discloses 80bps fee — link

Bitcoin options notional open interest soared to a new high of $15 billion last week.

US seeks more than $4 billion from Binance to end criminal case — link | bbg

• Resolution could come as soon as the end of this month
• Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao would face charges in US

Bittrex Global to wind down operations, urges customers to withdraw funds — link

U.S. SEC just filed a case against Kraken for operating online crypto trading platform without registering with the agency — link | sec

BTC correlation with Nasdaq approaches multi-year low

DOJ to announce cryptocurrency enforcement actions at 3pm ET

DOJ to announce Binance settlement in press conference today: BBG

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty — wsj | Indictment

• Binance agrees to pay fines totalling $4.3 billion
• Binance reached agreements with FinCEN, OFAC, CFTC
and will credit $1.8B to them and additional forfeiture of $2.51 billion
• Binance appoints an independent compliance monitor for 3 years
• 5 year FiNCEN monitor with full access for Binance

• CZ plea deal may preserve company's ability to operate
• CZ to retain majority ownership of Binance
• CZ can't operate Binance for 3 years from start of agreed upon date

Binance faces three charges — indictment
• Unlicensed money transmitting business
• Violating the international emergency economic powers act
• Conspiracy charges

UPDATE: Binance liquidity making new lows ahead of the press conference

Binance founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao released on $175m bond, will be sentenced in February — link

SEC just met with Grayscale for spot bitcoin ETF listing, memo shows — link

Genesis sues Gemini to recover “preferential transfers” worth $689m — link