2019-11-5 17:12 |
Blockchain service firm T-Systems signed a memorandum of understanding with Maltese government agency supporting business development
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Kathryn Haun, a general partner at U. S. venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has revealed in recent interviews how she helped take down the Silk Road when she was working for the Attorney General’s office.
2019-10-23 01:25 | |
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A report from the German cybersecurity firm Cure53 suggests the Chinese communist party’s app, Study the Great Nation, has ‘superuser’ access to over 100 million Android devices. It notes the app has a backdoor through which the government can access messages, photos, contacts, and internet browsing history of these handsets.
2019-10-14 09:12 | |
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Investigations into cryptocurrency firms by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have surged by three-quarters this year, as the agency tightens the rein on the crypto sector. Scrutiny On the Rise According to research from Pinsent Masons, an international legal firm, active investigations into cryptocurrency firms have surged to a whooping 87 companies in 2019 […] The post British Crypto Investigations Skyrocket 74% as Watchdog Proposes Derivatives Ban appeared first on CCN.com
2019-10-7 13:50 | |
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Morningstar Credit Ratings, a subsidiary of Morningstar Inc has decided to rate a variety of real-world assets, debts, and securities on a block chain, reported Forbes. The parent company started out as a rating agency for mutual funds offered by Prudential, Morgan Stanley and TDAmeritrade.
2019-10-2 18:36 | |
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The Australian Digital Health Agency is moving towards decentralized technology, big data, internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing as a solution to patient’s data recording. The government agency is looking for forward looking technologies to replace Accenture, a digital data firm, whose contract expires in 2020. A New Digital Health Platform for Australia In […]
2019-9-28 20:35 | |
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With investors lacking information and objective reviews on blockchain projects, a Korean blockchain rating company is formed.
2019-9-27 09:00 | |
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Bitcoin payment processing platform BitPay has blocked payments to the Hong Kong Free Press (Hong Kong FP), according to the chief editor of the nonprofit press agency. Tom Grundy accused BitPay of sitting atop their funds for almost three weeks.
2019-9-12 13:51 | |
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By CCN Markets: North Korea (DPRK) is sniffing out angry flames after getting accused of siphoning $2 billion from banks and bitcoin exchanges. The communist state denied having any links with the high-profile thefts.
2019-9-2 13:20 | |
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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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CryptoNinjas - Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Asset SourceUphold, a leading digital money platform, announced today the acquisition of Scytale, a digital agency based in Braga, Portugal. Uphold was an early believer in the technology talent to be found in the Portuguese hub around Porto, and the acquisition comes after deciding to further anchor its technology team in Portugal.
2019-7-16 23:43 | |
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Japan’s financial regulator, the Financial Service Agency, has issued a business improvement order to Japanese investment firm and Zaif crypto exchange operator Fisco
2019-6-21 16:21 | |
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Line Corporation, the firm in charge of Japan’s largest messaging app, Line Messenger, is set to be approved for its BitMax bitcoin exchange from the Financial Services Agency (FSA), reports Bloomberg on June 20, 2019.
2019-6-21 20:00 | |
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US CFTC Launches Action Against Bitcoin Fraudsters A few days ago, the regulatory agency of the United States filed a complaint with the New York Southern District Court against Control-Finance Ld. Apparently, the firm defrauded over 1,000 investors so as to launder over 22,858 Bitcoin.
2019-6-18 20:52 | |
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By CCN Markets: Weiss Crypto Ratings on Friday announced that it is downgrading the technology score of EOS, a blockchain protocol developed and distributed by Block. one. The US-based economic research agency said EOS has “serious problems with centralization,” three months after it put the project among the top three blockchains alongside Ripple and Bitcoin.
2019-6-9 14:17 | |
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By CCN: Canadian mobile-messaging company Kik is preparing to fight the SEC tooth-and-nail when the agency sues the firm over its $100 million ICO. Many companies settle to avoid a protracted and expensive legal war.
2019-5-31 17:36 | |
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A cryptocurrency mixing service that turned over $200 million worth of Bitcoin has been shut down following an investigation led by authorities from a number of European nations. The Dutch anti-fraud agency (FIOD) and Public Prosecution Service announced yesterday they have shut down Bestmixer.
2019-5-23 11:50 | |
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By CCN. com: Bitcoin played a role in staging the Easter Sunday suicide bombing in Sri Lanka that killed 253 civilians, according to Israeli blockchain intelligence firm Whitestream. The agency revealed that the ISIS used Canada-based payment gateway CoinPayments to convert bitcoins to fiat money.
2019-5-2 11:02 | |
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The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.
2019-4-30 20:07 | |
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is looking into two major cryptocurrency exchange platforms as part of an investigation. According to a report published by Reuters Japan on April 23, 2019, the investigation by the financial watchdog is connected to the legal compliance and customer protection standards of trading platforms Fisco Digital Asset Group (FDAG) and Huobi Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of Huobi Global.
2019-4-24 22:55 | |
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A new bitcoin exchange in Japan is set to go live on April 16 this year. Decurret Inc. in March obtained a license from Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) to offer cryptocurrency-enabled spot trading services.
2019-4-13 16:10 | |
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Bittrex, a United States–based cryptocurrency exchange platform, has issued a response to the recent setback in its plans to expand to New York. Yesterday, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) rejected the exchange's BitLicense application, a requirement for offering crypto-based services to New Yorkers.
2019-4-12 19:57 | |
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As part of their latest investigative efforts, Canadian law enforcement authorities have frozen the assets owned by the founders of blockchain services company Vanbex. These efforts are in line with the probes that have been carried out by the government agency since 2017— when the aforementioned firm was able to raise a whopping $22 million […]
2019-4-1 18:05 | |
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The Ledger Nano S from French crypto hardware wallet firm Ledger has received a First Level Security Certificate from France’s national cybersecurity agency
2019-3-18 16:00 | |
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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has apparently been specifically targeting bitcoin and crypto investors as part of its broader tax strategy to keep tabs on their cryptocurrency investments, including how they purchase these assets.
2019-3-9 23:53 | |
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The city located in the United Arab Emirates, Sharjah, will now have a new blockchain-powered wast permit portal. The information was released by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) and reported on February 17.
2019-2-19 05:20 | |
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After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities.
2019-2-17 08:55 | |
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After failing to convince a federal court regarding the nature of Blockvest tokens in the previous hearing, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally convinced the same judge that these tokens are securities.
2019-2-17 08:55 | |
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For our ongoing series Fundamentals, we’re looking at different companies worldwide and the basic principles they were built on. This time: financial solutions company Collins SBA. At first glance, Collins SBA appears to be some sort of travel agency.
2019-2-4 16:02 | |
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A former regional director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Shamoil T. Shipchandler, has resigned his position at the SEC for Jones Day, a global law firm. Shipchandler, who supervised a large number of high-profile crypto cases, was in charge of more than a hundred attorneys, accountants, investigators and compliance examiners at the […]
2019-1-30 09:10 | |
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The Litecoin (LTC) foundation, with valuable input from the Litecoin community, has created a new design for the coin in partnership with the Token Agency. The latter is an Australian based design firm that is focused on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency ventures.
2019-1-24 19:52 | |
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The Chicago Board of Exchange (Cboe) is pulling the plug on the SolidX and VanEck bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) proposal, adding another twist to a regulatory saga that can’t seem to find an ending.
2019-1-24 23:53 | |
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According to a PDF document released on January 11, 2019, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) has fully licensed the Coincheck cryptocurrency exchange after the firm reportedly met all its standards.
2019-1-14 10:00 | |
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Trive Ventures, a Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm, is launching Tribe Accelerator, a government-backed blockchain accelerator focused on product development in Singapore, Tech in Asia reported on December 4, 2018.
2018-12-5 19:00 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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MV Index Solutions (MVIS), a subsidiary of investment management firm VanEck, has announced the launch of MVIS Bitcoin U. S. OTC Spot Index (MVBTCO), a bitcoin-based index and the first one that monitors the performance of bitcoin across established over-the-counter (OTC) platforms in the U.
2018-11-22 17:35 | |
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KodakOne, a crypto project backed by the photography appliances producer Kodak is apparently being sued by contractors and outsourcing agency for unpaid invoices that reached more than $125,000. TheNextWeb breaks the story that in a series of email exchanges between contractors, outsourcing agency along with its representing law firm, and KodakOne, a group of contractors […]
2018-11-21 18:45 | |
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Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.
2018-11-17 01:42 | |
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The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a press release on Friday, November 9, 2018, stating that it had fined Arizona resident Joseph Kim for perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading scheme against his former employer and other investors.
2018-11-13 22:55 | |
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On Tuesday, Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that major banks in the country have suffered a cyber attack affecting more than 20,000 users. “More than 100 cases (of cyber-attack) have been registered with the FIA and are under investigation.
2018-11-7 12:08 | |
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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has joined the league of exchanges diversifying their international offerings by setting up a US securities trading platform. Preempting ‘Global’ Blockchain Asset Tokenization Through a partnership with blockchain fundraising platform SeriesOne, Bithumb seeks to speed up its growth into a “global financial firm” by cornering the securities token market, local South Korean media outlet Yonhap News Agency reported Nov 1.
2018-11-1 19:30 | |
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In a press release by the US Commodities Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) on Oct. 18, the agency confirmed that Gelfman Blueprint Inc. (GBI) and its CEO, Nicholas Gelfman, had been ordered to pay more than $2.
2018-10-20 16:29 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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The verdict is out. Token Insight, a ratings agency which describes itself as a platform that offer accurate research and analytics contributing to intelligent financial decision and market transparency, says Ripple relies on “centralized institutions and token distribution is currently relatively centralized”.
2018-10-8 15:53 | |
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Weiss, the financial ratings agency that recently took a shine to cryptocurrency, has caught flak over its latest claim. After Weiss Ratings issued a tweet predicting BTC to lose 50% of its market share to ETH, the firm was forced to backtrack in the face of widespread scorn.
2018-9-21 17:00 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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2018-8-17 20:30 | |
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Fintech businesses struggling to stay inbounds of government rules may soon receive a dose of much-needed guidance via the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
2018-8-3 18:23 | |
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We’re excited to welcome the latest addition to our institutional team, Jamie Selway as our Global Head of Institutional Markets. Jamie is a widely respected expert on electronic trading and market structure and the former Head of Electronic Brokerage and Head of Execution Services at the global agency broker-dealer and trading technology firm Investment Technology
2018-8-1 20:36 | |
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30 July 2018, New York- BANKEX, in association with the MIGRONIS KFT immigration company, the MDL Legal Services PLLC law firm, and in cooperation with the Designated Agency of Vanuatu, has launched a new service which allows persons applying for the Vanuatu citizenship-by-investment program to make the required investment for citizenship via cryptocurrency (Bitcoin or Ether). […]
2018-8-1 23:36 | |
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Somalia has shut down crypto-friendly messaging app Telegram and gambling site 1XBet, while cryptocurrency investments aren’t banned.
China is warning telecom companies that are based overseas not to wield “new technologies” — digital assets, blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse — for nefarious purposes.
South Korean telecommunication giant KT Corp announced its intent to launch a blockchain digital document initiative to tackle carbon emissions.
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Argentina’s leading telecommunications company fought off a cyberattack on Saturday where hackers demanded a hefty ransom in monero to release keys that would allow infected computers back into the system.
Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica granted access to its blockchain to about 8,000 local firms