>"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fined Bitfinex and Tether more than $42 million on allegations that the USDT stablecoin was not fully backed at all times and that Bitfinex violated a previous agency order. The federal commodities regulator settled charges with the sibling crypto companies on Friday, barring both firms from “any further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and CFTC regulations.” According to a CFTC press release, Tether’s stablecoin was fully backed by reserves for only one-quarter of the time over a 26-month period between 2016 and 2018."