Crypto firms among ‘greatest risks’ for money laundering in 2022-2023: UK govt

Crypto firms, wealth management companies, and retail and wholesale banking remain “particularly vulnerable” to financial crime, according to a U.K. Treasury report.

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Crypto Was One of the Biggest Money Laundering Risks in 2022-2023: UK Govt. Report

Between 2022 and 2023 Crypto alongside retail banking, wholesale banking and wealth management posed the greatest risk of being exploited for money laundering, a report by the U.K. Treasury department showed.

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Umoja raises $4 million to power crypto retail investors with ‘smart money tools’

Umoja raises $4M in seed funding to advance its smart money protocol, aiming to provide sophisticated wealth creation tools to crypto retail.

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Hedera: Will this progress on the RWA front save HBAR from the sellers?

Hedera to support the tokenization of Airbnb’s money market fund. HBAR sees a strong surge but low retail participation — Assessing its implications. Most top blockchains have a strategyThe post Hedera: Will this progress on the RWA front save HBAR from the sellers? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Large Transactions Put XRP Price Under Pressure: Are Whales Making An Exit?

XRP has had its ups and downs in the past few months, ranging from a 70% price spike from Ripple’s partial victory in court to whales and retail investors taking profit after the price pump. Now, on-chain data has shown that XRP big money players have made many interesting transactions this month, with whales transferring over 1.

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Want A Headstart Into Web3? These 3 Crypto Tokens Are Setting The Trend for Web3 Companies

Currently, the flow of money is predominantly directed towards Web3 and AI, attracting investments from both institutional and retail investors through presales. The multitude of distinctive platforms, each presenting revolutionary concepts, is so vast that they cannot be easily quantified.

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These Tokens Represent the Future of Web3 – Bitcoin on Ethereum, A Web3 Launchpad, and AI-Powered Trades

Currently, the flow of money is predominantly directed towards Web3, attracting investments from both institutional and retail investors through presales. The multitude of distinctive platforms, each presenting revolutionary concepts, is so vast that they cannot be easily quantified.

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BOE governor trashes crypto, stablecoins in favor of ‘enhanced digital money’

A retail CBDC or “enhanced” digital money would support the singleness of money and settlement finality, Andrew Bailey said, but crypto isn’t money.

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Web3 is All About Innovation: Learn Why These 2 Projects are at The Bleeding Edge

Web3 is where all the money is flowing right now, whether that’s from institutional investors or retail investors via presales. The number of unique platforms with groundbreaking ideas is too many to count and sooner or later we’re going to see why these projects are so special.

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Bitcoin price surge will come from retail, not institutions: Fireblocks CEO

Michael Shaulov believes that while recent Bitcoin ETF filings could see new institutional money flow to Bitcoin, that in itself didn’t drive previous price surges.

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Swiss central bank announces plans for wholesale CBDC pilot with ‘real money’: Report

Thomas Jordan, head of the Swiss National Bank, announced the project at a conference in Zurich; the central bank still feels “prudent” about a retail CBDC, though.

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Central Banks Propose CBDC, Stablecoin Standards With Amazon, Grab Running Trials

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in collaboration with the IMF and other central banks, is proposing common conditions for retail payments with digital money on a distributed ledger.

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AI financial tools: A smart way to manage money or a risky experiment?

AI is transforming the world of finance, but is it ready for the retail sector? Experts weigh in.

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Tron (TRX) and Tradecurve (TCRV) Price Prediction May 2023

Given the ongoing collapse in the banking sector, the bulls remain firmly in charge of the crypto markets. More retail investors have realized the benefits of self-custody without third-party risk, and money continues to flow into the crypto ecosystem.

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South African scammers behind Africrypt being investigated in Switzerland

Africrypt founders who defrauded South African retail investors 70,000 BTC in 2021 are being investigated by Swiss authorities for money laundering

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Ondo Finance Plans Yield-Generating Stablecoin Alternative for Institutional Investors

The new stablecoin-like token, OMMF, will be backed by conventional money market funds and is available only to qualified purchasers and accredited investors. But retail investors can lend against the tokens via Ondo’s DeFi protocol Flux to indirectly access the yield.

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DOT/USD bullish setup with a 1:4 risk-reward ratio

DOTUSD bullish setup in the makings The risk-reward ratio is close to 1:4 A possible bullish case pattern supports the scenario Money management is one of the areas in which many retail traders fail.

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BlockFi Most Likely to Pay SEC First, Crypto Lawyer Says

Sasha Hodder, founder of Hodder Law Firm, discusses why the SEC may get paid before retail investors and the low probability that traders will ever get their money back.

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Fidelity offers retail investors commission-free BTC and ETH trading

Fidelity Crypto will focus on Bitcoin and Ether initially. The brokerage will make money by charging a 1% spread on trades.

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Hong Kong unveils completed retail CBDC project that has a CBDC-backed stablecoin

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the BIS Innovation Hub cooperated on a unique CBDC design that reflects the realities of money issuing in the special administrative region.

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Almost a quarter of US investors used loans to buy crypto

A large number of retail investors in the United States have taken out loans, often at exorbitant interest rates, to buy cryptocurrencies, and more than half of such investors ended up losing money, according to a recent survey by DebtHammer.

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Mudrex Review – Price, Supported Exchanges, Security

Mudrex Invest an Easy Way to Invest in A Crypto Market trading is a hard beast to tame. Retail traders lose money 96% of the time. There are thousands of crypto marketplaces, each of which is open 24 hours a day, to patient traders, this is great as there are always opportunities for them to […] The post Mudrex Review – Price, Supported Exchanges, Security appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Behind zkLend, a dual solution money market protocol for institutions and retail

zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining the best of zk-rollups and Ethereum to bring more users to the DeFi market.  To differentiate itself from the growing competition on the market, zkLend offers an innovative, dual solution to the problems faced in DeFi—a permissioned and compliance-focused solution for institutional clients and a […] The post Behind zkLend, a dual solution money market protocol for institutions and retail appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Japan’s SBI Group brought XRP to the mainstream, will XRP be bullish?

XRP XRP/USD is a cryptocurrency that allows users to send money at a low cost and, as such, has attracted the interest of both retail customers and banks. XRP is a cryptocurrency that runs on the XRP ledger, which is a blockchain network aimed at providing a convenient way for people to transact money on […] The post Japan’s SBI Group brought XRP to the mainstream, will XRP be bullish? appeared first on Invezz.

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First Mover Asia: Singapore’s Distaste for Retail Crypto Spooks Institutional Money

Three Arrows Capital's decision last week to move its headquarters to Dubai reflects growing concerns about Singapore's increasing regulatory scrutiny of crypto; bitcoin returns to where it started the weekend.

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First Mover Asia: Singapore’s Distaste for Retail Crypto Is Spooking Institutional Money

Three Arrows Capital's decision last week to move its headquarters to Dubai reflects growing concerns about Singapore's increasing regulatory scrutiny of crypto; bitcoin returns to where it started the weekend.

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RociFi Raises $2.7 Million in Seed Funding to Lend Money to Anonymous DeFi Users

RociFi’s decentralized lending protocol is designed to facilitate zero and under-collateralized loans for institutional and retail DeFi borrowers.

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Coinrule vs Cryptohopper [2022] – Price, Features, ROI Compared

Retail money is pouring into the altcoin market, as evidenced by the recent fall in Bitcoin dominance. Regular folks are experimenting with leverage, short selling, and discovering trading bots for the first time.

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Bitcoin sheds ‘dumb money’ as retail buys most BTC since March 2020 crash

Small-volume buyers are as interested in $48,000 Bitcoin as they were in $3,600 Bitcoin, data appears to show.

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Paxful integrates with Lunu to offer users retail purchases with crypto

Paxful, a peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin and crypto exchange service platform, announced today it has partnered with Lunu to facilitate purchases of goods and services in cryptocurrencies. Lunu is a payment solutions provider based in Berlin that allows users to spend their cryptos as fiat money.

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COC#6: “Smart Money” Is Front-Running Retail

The bitcoin futures ETF launch is fueling a contango trade that is luring Wall Street in, and retail investors are absent or distracted.

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MoneyGram Partners With Circle And Stellar to Launch Cash In And Cash Out Links to USDC

Cross-border payments giant MoneyGram is now working with the Stellar network for instant money transfers using the USDC stablecoin. The companies announced on Monday that they would start the pilot in the fourth quarter of this year, and a gradual rollout of enabling USDC fiat on and off-ramp across MoneyGram’s retail platform will happen early […] The post MoneyGram Partners With Circle And Stellar to Launch Cash In And Cash Out Links to USDC first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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Mudrex Review [2021] – Price, Supported Exchanges, Security

Mudrex Invest an Easy Way to Invest in A Crypto Market trading is a hard beast to tame. Retail traders lose money 96% of the time. There are thousands of crypto marketplaces, each of which is open 24 hours a day, to patient traders, this is great as there are always opportunities for them to […] The post Mudrex Review [2021] – Price, Supported Exchanges, Security appeared first on CaptainAltcoin.

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Fantom prepares to fly - is it the next platform blockchain to achieve escape velocity?

In 2021, platform blockchains have captured the imagination of crypto investors. Retail investors, traders, and venture capitalists are throwing money at projects hoping to find the new Ethereum, Cardano, or Solana.

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Russian Central Bank to oblige commercial banks to block crypto-related transfers

The Russian Central Bank intends to recommend commercial banks block money transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges in order to protect retail investors from transactions made under the influence of emotions.

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Report: Bitcoin Adoption In Africa Grows 1,200% In One Year

The continent is the third-fastest growing bitcoin economy globally, powered by retail users seeking to save and transfer money.

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Retail Traders Pile On Shorts, Is This The Bitcoin Bottom?

Bitcoin has recently fallen below a $32,000 critical hold point and in response, retail investors have taken this as an opportunity to make money from the falling bitcoin price. So far, retail investors have started loading up on shorts, an incredibly bearish metric for the market.

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Data Shows The Majority of Bitcoin is Held at a Profit

Benzinga, a fintech media company providing news and data to retail investors and cryptocurrency traders, publishes its latest data study: If You’ve Lost Money Investing in...

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MoneyGram Partners With Coinme to Enable Customers Buy Bitcoin in the U.S.

Money transfer giant MoneyGram would allow users in the United States to buy and sell bitcoin at its retail stores across the country.  MoneyGram Enabling Retail Bitcoin Purchase In a press release on Wednesday (May 12, 2021), the company inked a partnership deal with major cryptocurrency cash exchange Coinme to allow U.S. customers buy andRead More

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Dtrade: A New Innovative Social Trading Platform Rivalling eToro’s Influence

The cryptocurrency market crossed the $2 trillion mark earlier in the month as FOMO, institutions, and stimulus money flowed into the industry at proportions never seen before. This sudden upsurge in the market is bringing in new retail investors looking either to make a quick buck or join in the “financial revolution” – as crypto […]

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Cardano’s Hoskinson Slams Dogecoin for Lacking Utility – Says Price Is Being Manipulated by Whales

While a majority of retail investors have celebrated Dogecoin rallying to all-time highs, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has warned that a massive amount of retail money will be lost very quickly.

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Companies Offer Diverse Opportunities Under One Umbrella

 Identifying and staying in front of market trends and emerging sectors has always been a challenge for everyone from “big money” to the retail investor. Two...

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South African Crypto Firms Threaten To Leave Amid Regulatory Uncertainty

The arrival of crypto-assets in Africa was seen as the end of financial exclusion in a continent that has remained in the dark ages for so long. With cryptocurrencies making it possible for retail investors to dictate how they spend their money and what they get in return, the continent quickly embraced the industry.

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How Memes and YOLO Positions Are Compromising Financial Markets

2021 has witnessed an unprecedented surge of interest from retail investors looking to make money on equities and various other assets. While this has led to an inadvertent transfer of wealth, many have also been burned in the process.

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$6 Trillion of Retail Money Expected to Flood Bitcoin and Stocks

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Wall Street Just Made the Best Case for Bitcoin, Ethereum & DeFi; Get Ready for Mass Adoption

Retail, which came in cheaper and way earlier, is already front running the so-called “smart money” in Bitcoin; it is now setting the stage for DeFi. The post Wall Street Just Made the Best Case for Bitcoin, Ethereum & DeFi; Get Ready for Mass Adoption first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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DeFi Is Still Experimental and Chaotic, Says Blockchain Expert Bohdan Prylepa

Bohdan Prylepa, CTO and co-founder of Prof-it Blockchain Ltd, stated in an interview that more work needs to be done to establish DeFi as a global phenomenon. For now, it is nothing more than an experimental terrain for retail investors to earn decent money by the side.

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Retail is Mostly Speculative, But Institutional Flow is Surging ‘In A Very Strong Way’ – JPMorgan Strategist

Money is flowing into Bitcoin from both institutional and retail while the corrections are “partly driven by momentum traders in futures spikes,” said Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou. The post Retail is Mostly Speculative, But Institutional Flow is Surging ‘In A Very Strong Way’ – JPMorgan Strategist first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.

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How to approach a Bitcoin market that only goes up?

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Do your research before investing any money into crypto. This article answers the most important retail question, "Should I invest in bitcoin now?" With bThe post How to approach a Bitcoin market that only goes up? appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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