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Facebook Caved In to FBI Pressure And Banned Crypto Ads. Google Pressured To Do The Same

Facebook’s banning of crypto ads last month does not appear to have been made by Facebook, but as a result of months of pressure from the FBI and other regulators who are now putting pressure on Google, reports TrustNodes. Jason Roy, Senior Investigator at the Manitoba Securities Commission and Chair of the Canadian Binary Options Task Force, said: “What happened is that Canada’s Binary Options Task Force as well as the FBI explained to Facebook what the concerns were and that these types of ads are leading to people becoming victims. We’ve been talking to Google and had similar discussions...

Canada: TD Bank Bans Credit Card Purchases of Crypto Following Global Trend

Following in the footsteps of several major banks globally, the Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), one of the largest banks in North America, announced in an email statement to customers on Friday, Feb. 23, that it is banning the purchase of cryptocurrency with credit cards, local journal The Globe and Mail reports. Sponsored A representative of TD, the first major Canadian bank to enact such a ban, said that the bank regularly evaluates its policies and security measures “in order to serve and protect our customers, as well as the bank.” TD’s move is part of a larger global trend of banks banning customers from credit card purchases...

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