(Reuters) – A suburban New York hospital technician accused of using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to launder money meant for the militant group Islamic State was arrested on charges of money laundering in support of a foreign terrorist organization and bank fraud, prosecutors said Thursday.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. regulatory panel on Thursday called for watchdogs to closely monitor risks created by financial innovation, warning that “fintech” and virtual currencies such as bitcoin threaten to disrupt the traditional financial services industry.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. regulatory panel on Thursday called for watchdogs to closely monitor risks created by financial innovation, warning that fintech and virtual currencies such as bitcoin threaten to disrupt the traditional financial services industry.

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LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – As bitcoin raced to another record high on Tuesday, one of the biggest providers of digital currency wallets, Coinbase, went down under the weight of traffic, leaving many of its more than 10 million customers unable to access their funds.

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ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s top court cleared the way on Wednesday for the extradition to the United States of a Russian man, also wanted in Moscow, suspected of having laundered billions of dollars in the digital currency bitcoin.

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