Former Bakkt CEO to Help Oversee CFTC in Congress
Newly appointed senator Kelly Loeffler is to join the committee that oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, raising concerns of a possible conflict of interest.
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Senator Kelly Loeffler received the hefty payout from her husband's company, Intercontinental Exchange, as she left bitcoin company Bakkt to take up her political position.
U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler and her husband sold up to $3.5 million in stock after a Jan. 24 briefing on COVID-19, but ICE says the transactions were conducted by financial advisors who had no input from the two.
One of two global oil benchmarks, Brent Crude Futures are now available through DeFi exchange Synthetix.
Bakkt's pending acquisition of Bridge2 Solutions, a loyalty program marketplace, will "expand Bakkt's presence across an asset class that today spans over $1 trillion in value," says its parent firm ICE's CEO, Jeffrey Sprecher.
Intercontinental Exchange, Bakkt's parent firm, has acquired loyalty services provider Bridge2 Solutions to boost Bakkt's efforts to build a consumer-focused crypto payments app.
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