OECD concerned about crypto’s close ties with traditional finance

The OECD is concerned about the increasing ties between crypto and traditional finance.

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BTC holds $48K as Evergrande forms ‘Lehman Brothers moment’ for China

Comparisons to 2008 flow in as traditional finance receives a fresh blow from a firm “too big to fail.”

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Multi-Dealer Brokerage Platforms Move To The Forefront Of Both Crypto And Traditional Finance

Multi-Dealer Platforms Move To The Forefront Of Both Crypto And Traditional Finance Fidelity announced bitcoin trading business launch to come in the next few weeks. Michael Moro, Paul, Bialobrzewski, Jeff Dornan, and other speak on the competition to become a one-stop shop.

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Cashaa Hopes to Bridge Crypto and Traditional Finance

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Put Your Crypto To Work: Five Ways To Earn A Passive Income

One of the next bigs steps for the crypto industry is passive income, allowing investors to earn interest or income from their tokens. While traditional mining is now unprofitable for casual users, you can still increase your holdings through a variety of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, ERC20 tokens, and more.

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It’s not too Late If you Learn Blockchain Finance From Now

2019 Chain Plus Asia Pacific Blockchain New Finance Summit(Singapore), one of the most influential blockchain summit organized by The Blockchainer is about to open on April 11-12th 2019 at Mandarin Oriental Singapore, with the prediction of 500 participants, 30+ traditional financial institutions, 80+ quality projects, 50+ investment institutions, and 50+ digital currency exchanges from worldwide. […]

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It’s not too Late If you Learn Blockchain Finance From Now

2019 Chain Plus Asia Pacific Blockchain New Finance Summit [Singapore], one of the most influential blockchain summit organized by The Blockchain is about to open on April11-12th 2019 at Mandarin Oriental Singapore, with the prediction of 500 participants, 30+ traditional financial institutions, 80+ quality projects, 50+ investment institutions, and 50+ digital currency exchanges from worldwide.

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What Is DeFi and Where Does It Leave Bitcoin?

The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.

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Lightning Nodes: How Risk-Averse Investors Will Finally Enter Crypto

Lightning nodes may be able to create a safe return similar to holding bonds in traditional finance, creating an opportunity for risk-averse investors to enter the cryptocurrency market. At least that’s the view taken by BitMEX who suggest that able node operators, who provide liquidity and ensure transactions run smoothly through the network, may be […] The post Lightning Nodes: How Risk-Averse Investors Will Finally Enter Crypto appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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Op Ed: Hanging Money Launderers Out to Dry: The Role of KYC/AML in Blockchain

Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.

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Jimmy Song is a Leading Bitcoin and Blockchain Educator, But Not Fond of Ethereum or JPM Coin

With the growing interest in cryptocurrency, there have been multiple institutions in traditional finance that have announced their own entries. Facebook and JP Morgan have been the most publicized institutions with the intentions of launching into these same kinds of ventures.

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Bitcoin Is Not A Great Store of Value: Yale Professor

Yale Insights interviewed Professor William N. Goetzmann, a teacher of Finance and Management Studies, about the advent of cryptocurrency. The discussion centered around the purpose and value of money.

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The Biggest Blockchain Event in Japan

On April 6 and 7, 2019, VC’s, funds, emerging projects, key talent, and executives from traditional finance throughout Asia and around the world will gather for one of the biggest blockchain events in Tokyo, Japan.

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Glassdoor Data: Major Traditional Finance Name Tops The Charts For Crypto Employment Opportunities

Glassdoor Data Reveals That Major Traditional Finance Name Top The Charts For Crypto Employment Opportunities The cryptocurrency industry is seeing a lot of layoffs for employees for different businesses, including mining farms and crypto exchanges.

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Jarvis – unifying Blockchain applications and bridging them with traditional finance.

Unifying the value of decentralization to bring it to the mass The value of Blockchain is divided among multiple applications and protocols. Once combined, they form the building blocks of an entire ecosystem, designed to empower users – the so-called web 3.

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Recent Crypto Insolvency Report from Pwc Shows Details on Inevitability of Crypto Regulations

The cryptocurrency industry, like the traditional finance industry, tends to go through ups and downs, and nearly anyone that runs a business in this sector knows that there will be financial mishaps along the way.

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Blockchain and Crypto Companies Provide Information About Ethereum After CFTC Request

There are several cryptocurrency and traditional finance firms that have provided information about Ethereum (ETH) after a request from the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC presented an inquiry back in 2018.

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Bakkt Launch Could Expose Over 100 Million New Investors to Adopt Bitcoin and Other Top Crypto Assets

As Bakkt's Release Nears, Can It Be Crypto's Savior? Will ICE's Crypto Trading Platform Push Forward Adoption? Many people in the traditional finance world and crypto industry are preparing for the launch of the digital asset platform called Bakkt, which will bring forth the first physically-settled bitcoin futures. The launch will not happen until later […]

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Bitcoin Price Evaluation Of $1,500,000 USD Per BTC Coin Surfaces If It Accounts For All Fiat And Gold Holdings

Bitcoin Could Be Valued At $1.5 Million USD Per Coin If It Absorbs All Fiat And Gold Holdings When Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, he was interested in creating a solution for the financial world that would take all far away from traditional finance companies and Wall Street and closer to having more freedom to own […]

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Bitcoin Could Swell To $1.5 Million If It Absorbs All Fiat and Gold Holdings

Bitcoin (BTC) was built to be an alternative to the traditional of finance. While Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of the cryptocurrency, never explicitly made such a comment, many have come to understand this underlying raison d’etre.

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Will Crypto ICO Creators Get Any Do-Over Second Chance Mulligan With The SEC For Compliance?

In 2017, initial coin offerings (ICOs) were in their heyday. In fact, between July and November that year, they managed to raise a total of $3 billion amongst over 430 companies. ICOs were influenced by IPOs, which are initial public offerings, because of their success in traditional finance. However, there are many exceptions, like that […]

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Singapore’s ABCC Exchange Acquired Collectively by Investors, Plans to Make World-Leading Platform

Acquisitions in both cryptocurrency and traditional finance are fairly common, though most of them include a purchase by a specific company or entity. However, the recent acquisition of Singapore-based ABCC Exchange is a little different, considering that the purchase was made by a group of otherwise unrelated investors. According to reports, the purchase, which has […]

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Billionaire Bitcoin Bull Tim Draper: The Crypto Takeover is Inevitable, Only Criminals Using Cash in Five Years

Everyone in the cryptocurrency and traditional finance industries has an opinion about how the related technology will unfold in the years to come. Tim Draper, known in the market as a Bitcoin bull, believes that the next five years will hold such considerable progress for the crypto industry that the only ones left using cash […]

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Why can’t you mine XRP? Is Ripple’s model better than PoW cryptocurrencies?

Ripple and its “as-a-gift-received” cryptocurrency XRP have been beaten with many a stick in the past. Their cult-like following, their scummy marketing strategies, and their phantom partnerships/MoUs with the oh-so-hated-in-crypto banks/traditional finance have been covered far and wide.

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A Look at Some of the Biggest Stories: Evergreen Issue of Cybersecurity

CoinSpeaker A Look at Some of the Biggest Stories: Evergreen Issue of Cybersecurity After covering a few of the different ways that crypto technology is getting absorbed into the more traditional sectors of finance last week, now we’d like to examine a few emerging features and techs that can impact the trajectory of crypto development.

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How Much Decentralization Is “Enough”? Vitalik Say High TPS Projects Are Centralized Pile of Trash.

We are in the tenth year of blockchain. It is apparent that this emerging technology has a lot of use cases— (subject to decentralization levels). It may not be in finance where it is already causing disruption but in other core areas of traditional industry say in manufacturing or service industry for example.

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AmaZix Blockchain Token Advisory and Bank Frick in Liechtenstein Partner to Boost Crypto Adoption

AmaZix is the latest blockchain consultancy firm to announce a partnership. The partnership was announced on February 4th, 2019 with Bank Frick in Liechtenstein who has been building an expert reputation for providing cutting-edge blockchain banking services.

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HSBC Executive Comments on True Strengths of Blockchain, Citing “Transparency and Savings”

Blockchain technology has been one of the greatest developments to come out of the introduction of cryptocurrency in the last 10 years. While there have been multiple industries that have adopted the technology to support their supply chains and record keeping, the traditional finance world stands to gain a lot from it. Speaking with French […]

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Currency.com Allows Crypto Traders to Buy Leveraged Equities, Indices and Metals

The worlds of traditional finance and cryptocurrency have always been divided, for regulatory and technical reasons. Until recently, it was difficult for cryptocurrency traders to gain exposure to stocks and commodities.

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Can Blockchain Be the Answer to Limited Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) Funding Options

It’s not a secret that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face lots of hurdles in their quest for funding, especially when it comes to accessing traditional trade finance products. Up to 70% of all proposals from these SMEs across the world don’t get funded, with a more significant majority of them being Asian SMEs. A […]

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The Week In Review: Bitcoin ETFs, Constantinople Date, and Mining Malware

This week, the crypto world operated under circumstances that have recently become normal: low market prices continued to cause strife among investors and miners, while the late stages of the U.

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International Monetary Fund’s Lagarde Sees Fintech as a Prevailing Force, Alternative to Banks in the Next Crisis

The World Economic Forum was held this week in Davos, and there were many major players in the traditional finance and cryptocurrency worlds discussed globalization. Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hosted one of the panels, and she had plenty to say about the growth of fintech and the need […]

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Wikipedia Page Views Suggest Bitcoin Remains the Most Popular Crypto: ETH, BAT and XRP Next

The cryptocurrency market moves up and down in a way that traditional finance does not, but the pattern has been hard to predict for a while. A recent Twitter post by DataLight urged consumers to examine the Wikipedia views for the different coins.

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See New Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC) Research from the Davos Summit on Crypto Investors

Cryptocurrency has been progressively advancing in the traditional finance world, but it has come with many naysayers. However, the use of blockchain technology apart from crypto assets is picking up the pace, as major investors believe that this is the next big opportunity for public companies.

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Economist’s Quip That Bitcoin (BTC) Fails Financial “Tests” Is Wrong: Hot Take

Davos may be an event centered around the realm of traditional finance, but crypto & blockchain technologies have been mentioned. In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Huw Van Steenis, senior advisor to Bank of England’s governor, Mark Carney, bashed this nascent asset class.

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Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates to Launch a Cryptocurrency for Banks. Underlying Blockchain Tech Still Undisclosed

The world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies is slowly beginning to permeate the traditional finance market, and Arabs are willing to become references for other actors by using these technologies in large-scale operations.

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How to Put Crypto In Everyone’s Pocket in 2019

In the same way all economic movements have done throughout history, blockchain finance challenges our traditional conceptions of ‘value,’ and, in turn, our ideas about identity and freedom. The new digital economy is now being built by a worldwide community who share common goals of decentralization, transparency, and financial inclusion.

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Ripple Will Make Payments as Easy as Sending Emails, Ross D’Arcy Says

Ripple has made very clear its ambition to revolutionize the world of finance through blockchain technologies even though centralized and more traditional methods dominate it. Sending Money Should Be as Easy as Sending an Email According to an article published by The Daily Hodl, Ripple sales director Ross D’Arcy commented that its solutions are designed […] The post Ripple Will Make Payments as Easy as Sending Emails, Ross D’Arcy Says appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Bitwage Service Adds Payroll Tax Payment Funding Options for U.S. Businesses

Cryptocurrency payroll service Bitwage has partnered with Texas-based payroll and Human Relations firm Simply Efficient HR to help companies fund W2 Employees and payroll tax payments using crypto.

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Zcash Now Available Over-the-counter at Galaxy Digital

Mike Novogratz’s diversified crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital announced on Jan. 10 via a blog post that it has started offering Over-the-counter (OTC) trading of Zcash – a privacy cryptocurrency with a hard cap of 21 million coins just like Bitcoin.

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Tokenization in 2019: Bitcoin-Built Bridge Between Cryptocurrency and Traditional Finance?

The crypto markets surge as we begin 2019 has attracted more stakeholders over the past week. Bitcoin’s performance especially is signalling a promising year for the crypto community both in terms of price as well as the expected milestones to be launched by various projects.

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A Complete List Of Bitcoin Debit Cards For 2019

The list of merchants that accept Bitcoin is continuously expanding. However, it’s still not possible to purchase everything with Bitcoin. But you can now order your own Bitcoin debit card, thanks to several companies in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

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FINRA Fines Morgan Stanley $5 Million for Sub-Standard Anti Money Laundering Practices

The American financial industry regulatory authority, FINRA, has fined wall Street bank Morgan Stanley for violating anti-money laundering (AML) rules over a period of five years, reported Finance Magnates on December 26, 2018.

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Airtoto ICO

AIRTOTO is the world's most secure and fair blockchain E-Lottery. AirToto is an Ethereum Blockchain based lottery system offering greater autonomy to participants with crystal clear transparency. Our Financial and Technology innovation promises landscape changes in the e-Lottery ecosystem that benefits one and all i.

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Energy Incentives Make Bitcoin Mining a Natural Fit for B.C., Canada

When it comes to bitcoin mining, Canada is a natural.  A temperate climate helps to keep mining equipment cool, and plentiful renewable energy from hydroelectric dams gives Canadian provinces like British Columbia a natural advantage with cheaper electricity costs.

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Western Union “We Would Be Ready” For Crypto. Ripple Tests Still Ongoing

Cryptocurrencies continue to make their way into the world of finance and traditional payment systems. Despite some skeptical statements and the bearish 2018, their adoption has dramatically increased to the point that many experts believe that eventually crypto use could complement or even compete directly with the traditional fiat system.

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IMF: 15 Central Banks Explore Digital Assets

A recent report by the IMF shows that digital asset technologies are not being dismissed by traditional finance institutions.

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PR: Buy Crypto with Credit or Debit Card Using EO.Finance

EO. Finance has launched a crypto-fiat gateway. Now it is possible to buy cryptocurrencies directly from the wallet using your debit or credit card, the maximum amount per single transaction is $25,000.

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GP Bullhound, Saxo Bank Predictions Show Institutional Investors Could Be Crypto Industry’s Saving Grace For 2019 Bounce Back

The cryptocurrency scene has been troubled for a while, and the downward trend of the market has left many investors worried about what’s to come. However, there are some predictions from GP Bullhound and Saxo Bank that may change their minds.

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