CFTC bans Mashinsky from trading for life, closing the regulator’s first crypto-lender case

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission permanently banned Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from commodity trading and CFTC registration through a consent order entered on June 18 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The order concludes the agency’s July 2023 fraud case and ends what the CFTC has referred to as...