(Reuters) – Binance executives met with U.S. Treasury Department officials last month and discussed loosening government oversight on the company, while exploring a deal with President Donald Trump’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Executives from the cryptocurrency exchange asked Treasury officials to remove a U.S. monitor that oversees its compliance with anti-money-laundering laws, the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the talks.
Binance has also been in talks to list a new dollar-pegged cryptocurrency from World Liberty Financial, the report said.
(Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
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