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The fast-growing private credit market, long criticised for operating away from public scrutiny, is now drawing questions in the open. Commentators are pressing regulators and industry players over transparency, valuation practices and the risks sitting in lightly supervised lending vehicles, as the asset class becomes too big for Wall Street and Washington to ignore.
- 2California Regulators Seize Struggling Nano Banc●California Seizes Nano Banc, Ending Years-Long Struggles Culminating in Significant Financial Loss
California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation has seized Nano Banc, closing the chapter on a bank that struggled for years and ultimately recorded significant financial losses. The state regulator took control of the institution after its prolonged troubles, a move that ends its operations and raises questions among depositors and observers about how its losses will be resolved.
- 3'Shielded Bitcoin' paper proposes private BTC payments using Zcash tech●Inside the 'Shielded Bitcoin' paper that proposes private BTC payments using Zcash tech
A new paper dubbed 'Shielded Bitcoin' proposes bringing private payments to Bitcoin by adapting Zcash's shielded-transaction technology. The proposal would let BTC users send payments without publicly exposing amounts or addresses, a long-standing gap given Bitcoin's transparent ledger. It is drawing attention in the crypto community, where privacy upgrades for Bitcoin have been debated for years amid regulatory scrutiny.