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Blockchain firm HashCash plans to create a federated and sovereign digital identity architecture to be used in banking processes.
2020-8-12 13:46 | |
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Avanti Financial Inc has been approved by the Wyoming Division of Banking to operate a crypto-focused bank; the Caitlin Long led startup now plans to launch as early as October 2020. According to a blog post announcement by the firm, it will also pioneer a new digital asset dubbed ‘Avit,' which will improve dollar payment […]
2020-7-24 16:09 | |
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Leading alternative investment banking, deal structuring, and securities firm Wilshire Phoenix on June 12, filed with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a tradeable Bitcoin (BTC) fund.
2020-6-14 17:00 | |
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Crypto valley firm Bitcoin Suisse has announced plans to sell a 20% stake in the company. The sale is expected to raise 46 million Swiss francs ($47. 38 million). Bitcoin Suisse said it intends to use the money to expand its portfolio to banking services in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, according to local media reports.
2020-5-9 22:15 | |
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American banking giant Goldman Sachs has made a bleak prediction for the S&P 500 and its one that will impact Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto market. According to the firm, the major US stock index will eventually retest 2400 points around mid-year before a stronger rally back to nearly 3000 points takes place.
2020-4-29 18:00 | |
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According to a report published by The Block, on March 30, 2020, Spanish banking titan, Santander, is all set to bring its Ripple-enabled payment solution to Mexico later this year. Ripple Looking to Tap the Mexican Remittance Market San Francisco-based distributed ledger technology (DLT) firm, Ripple Inc.
2020-3-30 17:00 | |
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HSBC, one of the largest financial services institutions in the world, has announced that it has stored $10 billion private placement records on the R3 Corda blockchain and the firm has made it clear that it plans to tokenize these private placements in the near future, according to reports on March 27, 2020.
2020-3-27 20:00 | |
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Sophisticated malware strains that usually target online banking services may pivot towards crypto exchanges and wallets in 2020. RATs Could Target Crypto Exchanges and Wallets in 2020 According to a report by Dutch-based cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric, hackers may use banking trojans to target crypto exchanges and wallets in 2020.
2020-3-4 17:00 | |
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Banking giant Wells Fargo is backing blockchain forensics firm Elliptic.
2020-2-13 16:00 | |
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Biz Stone, the Medium & Twitter co-founder has invested in a financial services company called Mode. The company has just released a BTC (Bitcoin) banking application for use in iOS gadgets. The UK-based firm said that the application will be available globally, but users in the United States would not have access to it yet. […]
2020-2-5 21:05 | |
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UK-based fintech firm Mode, which is backed by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, has launched its Bitcoin banking app on iOS devices
2020-2-5 16:10 | |
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Ramp, a Warsaw-based crypto payment gateway, announced it has received an Open Banking License in Europe. The firm was authorized by The Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF). The license will allow for faster, simpler and cheaper processing of crypto transactions for users in the European Union.
2020-2-4 10:17 | |
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Leading cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain. com on January 29, 2020, announced that it had launched a full banking integration for Turkish Lira (TRY) to enable users to deposit and withdraw Lira on the firm’s exchange.
2020-1-30 14:00 | |
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Major Swiss private banking and wealth management group Julius Baer has launched crypto trading and custodial services following a partnership with licensed crypto bank Seba
2020-1-28 15:06 | |
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An average investor reaching young adulthood in the 21st-century trusts bitcoin more than a three-decade-old bullish stock. So it says in a recent study conducted by Charles Schwab. The U. S. ’s thirteenth largest banking firm studied millennial investors’ self-directed portfolios for the year 2019.
2019-12-30 01:30 | |
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The blockchain forensics firm is now offering banks a product that aims to provide up-to-date risk profiles of more than 200 of the largest crypto exchanges around the world.
2019-12-11 15:00 | |
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Facebook’s foray into crypto has made the firm few friends in political circles. The Libra backlash has been so bad that it has painted bitcoin and the rest of the crypto industry in a bad light.
2019-8-3 13:30 | |
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Despite not needing to, crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse has applied for a banking license and security dealer's license with the Swiss Financial Markets Supervision Authority, anticipating that the "maturing" regulatory environment will soon require the firm to hold both licenses.
2019-7-18 23:56 | |
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These anticipatory steps have been taken in face of a "maturing" regulatory environment, as the firm plans to expand its crypto-related financial services.
2019-7-18 23:00 | |
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Facebook has been grilled today at a Senate Banking Committee hearing over its cryptocurrency project Libra. As part of the hearing, a representative for the social media giant claims the firm has been in contact with a Swiss agency to oversea data protection and user privacy.
2019-7-17 02:00 | |
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Crypto finance firm Bitcoin Suisse announced today that it has applied for a banking license. Bitcoin Suisse has applied for a license from the financial supervisor and is also seeking authorization to trade securities.
2019-7-17 01:34 | |
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The President of the United States, Donald Trump has made it clear that he is not a fan of bitcoin (BTC), Libra, and other cryptocurrencies. He added that firm’s like Facebook looking to issue digital assets must obtain a banking charter and come under the purview of financial regulators in the country, reports The GuardianRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-12 14:13 | |
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According to data published by crypto research firm Messari, bitcoin has massively outperformed the largest banking stocks in the world over the past five years. In fact, the cryptocurrency is pummeling them so badly it's not even funny anymore.
2019-7-11 21:19 | |
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Medio Demarco, the co-founder of crypto-oriented research firm Delphi Digital, feels relieved that he left Deutsche Bank on time. Recently, the German banking giant announced massive restructuring.
2019-7-10 00:30 | |
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Fintech firm Token has received a $16.5 million injection from investors including the venture arm of banking giant BNP Paribas
2019-6-19 21:50 | |
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We all know that banks make it difficult for blockchain businesses by denying them access to conventional banking services and accounts. Well now, it seems insurance firms are throwing a spanner in the works for cryptocurrency mining businesses in Africa.
2019-6-13 13:41 | |
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Consultancy firm McKinsey has argued that blockchain is gaining slower traction with retail banks due to regulatory hurdles and a conservative consumer environment
2019-6-8 13:27 | |
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By CCN: Tesla investors are having a forgettable year as the stock has made them poorer by more than 30%. The Elon Musk-led company’s stock fell to two-year lows earlier this week. But independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore ISI believes that the bloodbath isn’t done yet and has lowered its stock price target to $200 from $240.
2019-5-16 23:00 | |
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Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.
2019-5-13 16:37 | |
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Coinspeaker ICE’s Crypto Startup Bakkt Acquires Digital Asset Custodian, Join Hands With BNY MellonBakkt latest acquisition of DACC is viewed as an attempt to push forward its regulatory approval of a crypto custodian.
2019-4-30 11:14 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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By CCN. com: Wall Street firm JPMorgan has a plan to save the banking industry’s lucrative cross-border payments business from alternatives such as Bitcoin and fintechs such as Ripple and TransferWise – expand the use cases for its permissioned blockchain network, the Interbank Information Network (IIN) to include settling payments.
2019-4-22 15:49 | |
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A South African crypto exchange has partnered with an international blockchain-based payment processing firm. The merger between DoshEx and PundiX will allow early cryptocurrency adopters to spend their holdings in real-world locations in South Africa.
2019-4-6 00:00 | |
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In an official blog post published on April 4, 2019, the Viennese cryptocurrency brokerage platform Bitpanda confirmed that it has received a license to operate as a payment service provider in Austria.
2019-4-4 20:17 | |
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QuadrigaCX monitor Ernst & Young suspects that the beleaguered exchange’s late CEO, Gerald Cotten, may have been financing personal expenditures with company funds, and it is now recommending that the assets in Cotten’s estate be placed under a preservation order.
2019-4-3 01:19 | |
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The darknet has a new soldier in the form Gustuff, a new Android trojan that has targeted over 125 cryptocurrency and banking apps. Gustuff has been in existence since April 2018 and stands with Anubis, Red Alert, and BankBot as one of the deadliest threats to the financial space.
2019-3-29 01:00 | |
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Financial regulators in Switzerland have disclosed the illegal acts committed by Envion AG, a cryptocurrency “mining operation” that illegitimately collected over $90 million with an initial coin offering (ICO) last year.
2019-3-27 18:38 | |
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CryptoNinjas Blockchain services company Vanbex Group recently announced a strategic alliance partnership with Entoro, a global investment, banking and financial services firm. Entoro, a licensed broker-dealer, joins a growing roster of companies that partnered with Vanbex, utilizing Vanbex’s deep understanding of the blockchain and security token.
2019-3-26 05:50 | |
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Avaloq is among the most significant international software service providers at the moment. The Fintech Company is also a business process service provider (BPaaS) serving many wealth managers and multiple banks.
2019-3-21 05:51 | |
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Banking technology firm Avaloq has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). The EEA is a global non-profit consortium of companies hailing from several major industries, including technology, banking, government, healthcare, energy, pharmaceuticals, marketing, and insurance.
2019-3-19 20:52 | |
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Nowhere does the phrase ‘misfortunes don’t come singly’ appear to be truer than in the case of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Gatecoin which has been hacked, had its banking accounts frozen, lost funds to a payment processor and now faces liquidation all in a span of three years.
2019-3-15 15:34 | |
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Wall Street superstar Sallie Krawchek has quietly left the board of Digital Asset, and the manager of the firm's DAML product has returned to banking.
2019-3-15 23:45 | |
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Wall Street superstar Sallie Krawchek has quietly left the board of Digital Asset, and the manager of the firm's DAML product has returned to banking.
2019-3-15 23:45 | |
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Gatecoin Cryptocurrency Exchange Calls It Quits After Six Years. Gatecoin, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchanged founded in 2013 by Aurelien Menant, a former investment banking expert, has announced it is now bankrupt and would end operations with immediate effect, according to a statement by the firm on March 14, 2019. End Of The Road For […]
2019-3-15 23:22 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency firms are facing difficulties with opening bank accounts until they get their Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) license according to the Times of Malta report on March 1, 2019.
2019-3-5 13:00 | |
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R3 had a big indirect victory against Hyperledger Fabric recently. MonetaGo, a software development firm that provides blockchain solutions for banking institutions, has decided to change its structure and start using R3’s Corda instead of its old Hyperledger Fabric system.
2019-2-27 23:21 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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Initium Group, a future corporate banking group, focused on providing high-quality traditional banking services to firms in the crypto and blockchain space, has officially announced its official launch and upcoming token sale.
2019-2-15 22:02 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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Tether has announced the expansion of its USDT token to an eighth blockchain.
The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.
This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.
Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.
Gates has previously criticized cryptocurrencies and said he'd short bitcoin "if there was an easy way to do it."
A new tie-up with payments firm Klarna brings the exchange access to more than 5,000 banks across Europe.
Local firm Bitcoin Suisse has partnered with the canton of Zug, converting cryptocurrency tax payments into Swiss francs.