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Leading MEP brands French Regulator’s approval of Binance ‘incomprehensible’

By Alisha Houlihan for AMLi

A European lawmaker has blasted a decision by the French markets regulator to approve beleaguered crypto exchange Binance last month as “incomprehensible.”

MEP and Member of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON), Aurore Lalucq, has urged the Autorité des Marchés Financiers to review its May ruling in which it approved the crypto-exchange.

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