#Regulation

Russia’s Largest Bank to Test Issuance of State-backed ICO in 2018

May 29, 2018 by contributor at Blockchain, Business, Finance, News, Regulation

Russia is seemingly taking giant strides in adopting blockchain technology. The country’s latest blockchain push would see the Russian banking giant Sberbank and the National Settlement Depository monitor an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on a state-developed blockchain. Russia’s Blockchain Push According to an official report by Sberbank, the two entities...

Singapore May Soon Set Up a Framework for Decentralized Crypto-Exchanges

May 29, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, Finance, News, Regulation

Surging forward in creating an optimum business environment for cryptocurrency and blockchain companies, Singapore looks primed to replicate its success with the traditional finance sector, by becoming a digital asset hub. Current Regulations ‘Outdated’ As per an official report on May 24, 2018, the island country’s central bank, the Monetary...

Bithumb Bans Crypto Trading In Iran, North Korea, and Nine Other Countries

May 29, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Business, Finance, News, Regulation

South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Bithumb has announced in a press release dated May 27, 2018, that it will restrict the accounts of users from 11 "high-risk jurisdictions" preventing them from taking part in digital asset trading as from June 21, 2018. The decision, which comes at a time when...

London Needs to Embrace Blockchain Post-Brexit to Stay Relevant Says Leading MEP

London Sticks With Fiat: Here’s Why Bitcoin Has Not Caught Up In The World’s Forex Trading Capital

May 28, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Business, Finance, News, Regulation, Tech

Since the phenomenal rise of the credit default swap, popularly known in financial circles as the ‘derivative,’ the City of London has been at the forefront of global foreign exchange trading, with a daily forex market value of approximately $5.5 trillion. The Square Mile has gained a fearsome reputation as...

Chicago Trader Faces Jail Time Over Bitcoin and Litecoin Theft

Vancouver-based Bitcoin Trader Sentenced to Jail in the U.S.

May 28, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Bitcoin, Finance, News, Regulation

Louis Ong, a bitcoin trader, has been indicted for running an unlicensed money services business and sentenced to 20 days imprisonment. Ong had been the subject of an HSI investigation and was arrested in 2017 after reneging on an agreement to cease his unlicensed digital currency trading activities. The HSI...

Over 1,200 Complaints about Crypto Scams Sent to Australian Watchdog in 2017

Australian Watchdog Reveals Losses of Over AU$2 Million to Cryptocurrency Scams in 2017

May 28, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Commentary, Finance, News, Regulation

Cryptocurrency scams were perhaps the most widely reported feature of the digital asset class, apart from their mammoth price increase. Millions of dollars have been fleeced from unsuspecting investors, who needed nothing more than a functional website and a basic whitepaper to consider a project as “trustworthy.” Scammers Adept At...

U.S. and Canada Launch Massive Cryptocurrency Fraud Probe: “Operation Crypto-Sweep”

May 28, 2018 by contributor at Altcoins, Commentary, News, Regulation

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced a series of probes related to cryptocurrencies, on May 21, 2018. The investigations aim to eliminate the bogus securities offerings from the industry. Additionally, they also target initial coin offerings (ICOs) that promise high returns without providing enough information to the investors...

Major South Korean Crypto Exchanges Bithumb and UPbit Face Backlash and Criticism

May 27, 2018 by Joseph Young at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Finance, News, Regulation

UPbit and Bithumb, two of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea and the global cryptocurrency market, have faced backlash and criticism from the local cryptocurrency market for the scandalous behavior since early May 2018. UPbit Investigation Found No Irregularities On May 13, 2018, BTCManager reported that the official investigation...

South Africa Central Bank: “Cryptocurrencies Don’t Meet Requirements For Money”

May 27, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Commentary, Finance, News, Regulation

South Africa is the latest country to try and classify cryptocurrencies as it looks to regulate the industry and generate income tax. According to the country's Central Bank, digital currencies such as bitcoin (BTC) are mere “cyber-tokens” that don't meet the criteria to be categorized as money. South African Cryptocurrency...

Poland’s Cryptocurrency Tax Law Crashes as Investors Resist Draconian Regulation

May 26, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Finance, News, Regulation

While most stake “hodlers” in the cryptocurrency ecosystem agree that there is a need for amenable regulation of the cryptosphere, Polish digital currency investors have refused to abide by the PPC law, due to its draconian nature. Now the Polish authorities have agreed to temporarily suspend the “Civil Law Transactions...

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