2019-11-7 15:20 |
China, Hong Kong partner on blockchain trade finance push
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Mainland Chinese investors are likely to be excluded from Hong Kong’s newly approved Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs due to China’s rigorous crypto ban, posing challenges to potential market impacts. The post China’s Crypto Ban Prevents Exposure to Hong Kong’s Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-4-19 18:45 | |
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China issues legal guidance that gives NFT markets hope, Bitget invests $10M in Indian startups, SEBA Bank’s Hong Kong license: Asia Express.
2023-11-10 02:05 | |
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Hong Kong protests are escalating, which has pushed U. S. lawmakers to ‘hotline’ the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. Trump is unlikely to block the bipartisan bill, which could anger Beijing and stall trade talks.
2019-11-17 16:14 | |
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Mining rig manufacturer Canaan has filed for an IPO with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $400 million on the Nasdaq Global Market. Prior to this filing, the company had also attempted to go public in Hong Kong and China.
2019-10-30 04:30 | |
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Hong Kong investors increased their exposure in a blockchain firm after China’s premier Xi Jinping endorsed the technology in his Friday speech. The stock value of Pantronics Holdings Limited (1611:HK), a Hong Kong-based electronic product manufacturing firm, climbed by up to 67.
2019-10-28 17:00 | |
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The NBA probably wants nothing more than for the whole mess with China about Daryl Morey’s pro-Hong Kong tweet to just go away. But thanks to how the league initially reacted, that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
2019-10-24 08:52 | |
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Shaquille O’Neal has shown us once again why he’s one of the greatest sports personalities we’ve ever seen. While NBA figureheads speak in code and tip-toe around the China-Hong Kong controversy, the outspoken sportscaster made it all seem very simple on Tuesday night.
2019-10-23 04:54 | |
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Despite overwhelming pressure, the NBA has clarified that there’s “no chance” the Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey will be fired for expressing his support of Hong Kong protestors, a move that generated backlash in China earlier this month.
2019-10-21 18:00 | |
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A clash of values is underway as Hong Kong’s fight for democracy goes international following China’s unified state attempt to censor freedom of speech by American citizens in America.
2019-10-10 20:21 | |
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A clash of values is underway as Hong Kong’s fight for democracy goes international following China’s unified state attempt to censor freedom of speech by American citizens in America.
2019-10-10 20:21 | |
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The NBA boasts some 600 million fans in China and rakes in billions of dollars from lucrative TV and merchandising contracts with the PRC. But that could all change because of a single tweet. Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, took to Twitter last week in support of the people of Hong Kong.
2019-10-8 23:25 | |
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Hong Kong securities authority sets out the first-ever cryptocurrency regulations as asset managers and portfolios invested in virtual assets targeted. The new regulations come at a time the island country is witnessing increased levels of Bitcoin trading as pressure from mainland China intensifies.
2019-10-7 21:37 | |
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Four months of protests continue in Hong Kong as the world is witnessing the biggest uprising of political dissent in the territory since the 1997 ‘handover’ from Britain to China. Protesters have recently embraced wearing Guy Fawkes masks but on October 3, Hong Kong’s current Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, implemented colonial-era emergency powers banning the […] The post Protesters Wield Tools of Freedom as Hong Kong Imposes Dictatorship appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-10-5 18:16 | |
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China Merchants Bank International teams with Nervos for DApp development - CryptoNinjas China Merchants Bank International (CMBI), a wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary of China Merchants Bank, today announced that it is partnering with layered blockchain network Nervos to jointly develop and launch decentralized applications (DApps) for financial services.
2019-10-4 18:51 | |
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Coindance’s data shows that there is a massive Bitcoin volume spike in Hong Kong with over $13 Million being traded just last month. ’ Given that China monitors its citizens through their spending habits, cryptocurrencies allow them to move to a different form of transferring value that is not controlled by the state. LocalBitcoins has […]
2019-10-3 18:18 | |
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Hong Kong exchanged more fiat currency for Bitcoin than ever before last week, in the run-up to the tumultuous 70th anniversary of the Chinese state. Hong Kong: 7 Days, 173 bitcoins Data from monitoring resource Coin Dance, which tracks volumes on P2P exchanges, confirms that 12.
2019-10-2 16:00 | |
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Asian stocks closed lower on Friday as investors gauged emerging trade uncertainties in the United States and weak Chinese economic data. Japan’s Nikkei and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped by 0.
2019-9-28 17:22 | |
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OneConnect is Ping An's insurance financial technology unit. The company is aiming at a stock market debut in the US in November. This is according to credible sources from Hong Kong. OneConnect is China's biggest insurer, and it is said to instigate an initial public offering in the United States. The news was reported on […]
2019-9-23 19:26 | |
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Google Play Store has a malware problem. And it doesn’t seem to go away despite the company’s best efforts to rein in sketchy apps. In a yet another instance of Android adware, New Zealand-based independent security researcher Andy Michael found four Android VPN apps with cumulative downloads of over 500 million that not only serve ads while running the background, but are also placed outside the apps, including the home screen.
2019-9-20 14:53 | |
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Stocks in mainland China and Hong Kong tumbled on Monday after Beijing reported a sharper than expected slowdown in industrial production, signs that the ongoing trade war with Washington was ravaging domestic producers.
2019-9-16 05:47 | |
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Even as UK’s clamor to sever ties with the European Union reaches fever pitch, a Hong Kong exchange operator whose main business comes from Mainland China has swooped in to take over a key British institution in a deal that smacks of globalization, a term that does not endear itself well to proponents of Brexit.
2019-9-12 20:35 | |
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In the midst of an unfavorable political climate in Hong Kong, Telegram, which has been used to organize protests in the region, will launch more privacy-enhancing features on its platform, as reported by South China Morning Post, September 4, 2019.
2019-9-5 09:00 | |
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Two years ago, on September 4, 2017, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) shut down local cryptocurrency exchanges over concerns that unregulated assets like bitcoin allow residents to bypass strict capital controls.
2019-9-5 22:19 | |
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Wednesday brought a welcome relief rally for the Dow Jones, which surged more than 200 points as risk assets rallied around the globe. Tensions eased in Hong Kong, Brexit no-deal risks fell, and President Donald Trump confirmed that the US was not looking for regime change in Iran.
2019-9-5 22:01 | |
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The internet may be vulnerable to state intervention, but demonstrators in Hong Kong have found a way around it to stay connected to each other. As pro-democracy rallies rage in the territory, protestors are increasingly giving up on SMS, emails and China’s social media Swiss army knife WeChat in favor of peer-to-peer mesh networking apps like Bridgefy and FireChat.
2019-9-3 10:43 | |
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The negative Yielding Debt continues to increase and analysts say that this is good news for the adoption of Bitcoin. The escalating U. S. -China trade war, political tensions in Italy, Hong Kong and Argentina and disappointing economic data from China to Germany have fueled demand for haven securities this month.
2019-9-1 19:34 | |
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The Hong Kong protests started in June 2019 over a controversial bill and now after weeks of demonstrations, marching citizens are fighting for the future of Hong Kong. In the midst of all the activists protesting, digital currencies like bitcoin cash are being promoted as a way for people to remove themselves from China’s system.
2019-8-29 21:00 | |
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The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will roll out China’s sovereign digital currency, DC/EP, as early as November this year, distributing it to seven institutions including Alibaba, Tencent, and the four largest banks in the world, two separate sources told Forbes.
2019-8-28 13:10 | |
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The Hong Kong protest movement is prompting local businesses and individuals to dropt China’s fiat currency
2019-8-28 11:52 | |
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Google yesterday announced it’d banned 210 YouTube accounts “related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong” and the discovery was “consistent with recent observations and actions related to China announced by Facebook and Twitter.
2019-8-24 21:47 | |
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Bitcoin is hoping to become a hot property in Hong Kong. The region’s political crisis has swept over its banking sector, which is now seeing protestors withdrawing large bundles of cash out of their banking institutions.
2019-8-19 04:36 | |
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Protesters in Hong Kong have taken to a new non-violent tactic, withdrawing cash in mass from ATMs and banks and converting it to U.S. dollars—foreshadowing things to come for Bitcoin. On Aug. 16, protesters in Hong Kong announced plans to withdraw their cash from the banking system in protest of overreach from mainland China, reported […] The post Bitcoin as protest: Hong Kong demonstrators withdraw their money from banking system appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-8-19 14:17 | |
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Bitcoin is hoping to become a hot property in Hong Kong. The region’s political crisis has swept over its banking sector, which is now seeing protestors withdrawing large bundles of cash out of ATMs.
2019-8-16 16:00 | |
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Protests in Hong Kong and a trade dispute with the U.S. have put China in the eye of the economic storm. The People's Bank of China has been testing a digital currency, and this week it announced that it is ready.
2019-8-14 22:00 | |
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Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions. According to an investigation by Spanish newspaper ABC, President Nicolas Maduro and his administration are using a digital wallet app called Jetman Pay to convert tax revenue from one of the country’s main airports into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
2019-7-26 14:02 | |
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After the release of the whitepaper for Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency, governments around the world have brought up concerns. Some have already stated that they will not allow Libra to be used within their economy, while others simply want clarity on the regulations already in place.
2019-7-12 00:41 | |
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A new diktat by Hong Kong’s financial watchdog has put the global financial hub’s cryptocurrency exchanges and custodians in a spot of bother as they are now required to fully insure the risks of hacking and theft associated with digital currencies, South China Morning Post reports, June 23, 2019.
2019-6-24 15:00 | |
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Blockchain is one of the fastest growing skills among workers in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, according to a LinkedIn report published Wednesday. LinkedIn analyzed the skills listed by its members from the APAC region over the last five years to identify the top 10 rising skills.
2019-6-19 12:52 | |
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Having discovered the power of mining in numbers, mining pools are increasingly solidifying the place as the backbone of the entire crypto ecosystem. These pools inherited duty-to-fuel transactions, besides now being something of a rubberstamp, guaranteeing absolute credibility.
2019-6-19 00:14 | |
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The expected correction of Bitcoin after the rapid growth at the weekend did not happen. The reason – the jaw-dropping and unrelenting protests in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is afraid of yuan How can protests in the territory returned to China affect crypto? Hong Kong returned to its “home port” on July 1, 1997, shaking […]
2019-6-18 15:03 | |
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BTC in Hong Kong is currently trading $175 above its spot price according to other Bitcoin indexes, as political instability is driving demand for a safe haven. Hong Kong Protesters Seek Safety in Bitcoin Bitcoin demand in Hong Kong is starting to surge as an increasing amount of citizens are seeking refuge in the decentralized currency.
2019-6-18 23:00 | |
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Mining pools have been the backbone of the crypto-ecosystem, owing to their inherited duty to fuel transactions and ensure immutable credibility. Given the power mining pools hold in the space, countries like China, U.
2019-6-17 18:00 | |
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Trade war or not, Amazon intends to challenge Alibaba’s dominance in China’s e-commerce industry. The Jeff Bezos-led company is on a hiring spree in China. Not to be outdone, Alibaba plans to raise up to $20 billion through a listing in Hong Kong.
2019-6-14 17:17 | |
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As Hong Kong battles against the proposed extradition bill that would China more power over the autonomous territory, protesters in the city are said to have experienced an outage of Telegram‘s encrypted messaging service yesterday – and Beijing may have had something to do with it.
2019-6-13 08:50 | |
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As Hong Kong battles against the proposed extradition bill that would China more power over the autonomous territory, protesters in the city are said to have experienced an outage of Telegram‘s encrypted messaging service yesterday – and Beijing may have had something to do with it.
2019-6-13 08:50 | |
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What Is the OK Exchange? OKEx is one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, but you may not recognize it if you live in the U. S. , Hong Kong, or or one of the other nearly 20 countries it doesn’t service.
2019-5-29 22:56 | |
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By CCN: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao — who is still reeling after a $54 million bitcoin hack — is suing Sequoia Capital China, a unit of California-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. In his May 20 legal filing with the High Court in Hong Kong, Zhao claims Sequoia Capital China prevented him from raising capital between Dec.
2019-5-24 02:00 | |
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Some 10.9 billion yuan (US$1.58 billion) has left China through Hong Kong this Tuesday, the highest net outflow since 2015. CNY has fallen against the dollar and is now at...
2019-5-16 15:42 | |
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A Chinese blockchain investment firm listed in Hong Kong recently announced that it was looking at the cannabis sector following bitcoin’s price struggles in 2018. As reported by South China Morning Post, the company says it wants to diversify its investment portfolio.
2019-5-3 23:00 | |
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The Central Bank of Brazil has initiated the second phase of its central bank digital currency project, DREX, aiming to demonstrate trade finance as a new use case. In a press release on Nov. 19, Brazil’s central bank announced it…
According to the results of the 2023 BIS survey on central bank digital currencies and crypto, only 12% of central banks are planning to issue retail CBDCs in the mid-term. A recent survey by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS)…
The BOJ hiked the benchmark borrowing cost by 10 basis points, abandoning the prolonged negative interest rate policy.
From legal issues to hackers, launching a CBDC is fraught with risks, and BIS has a big list of them to consider.
NITDA chief Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi said it’s crucial to take proactive measures to harness AI benefits and mitigate threats.
The answer again is regulation, although this time the suggested regulation looks a lot like central bank co-option.
The answer again is regulation, although this time, the suggested regulation looks a lot like central bank co-option.