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Ten Years after Lehman Brothers Sunk, Wall Street Comes Full Circle on the Back of Bitcoin

September 15, 2018 by Liam J Kelly at Bitcoin, Commentary, Exchange, Finance, News, Regulation

Ten years after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2008, a host of new financial offerings is hoping to entice sullied investors back into the market. The task hasn’t been easy, however. The financial crisis that spawned Bitcoin has left enough emotional damage to keep those with a keen sense...

As Malta Continues to Attract Crypto Investment, not Everyone Is Thrilled

September 14, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Blockchain, Business, Crime, Exchange, Finance, Investment, News, Regulation

Long known for being a holiday hotspot in the Mediterranean, the island of Malta has been making headlines for a different set of reasons recently, and opinions are split firmly down the middle over this matter. From Chinese crypto exchanges fleeing anti-crypto restrictions in their home country to blockchain fintech...

Australian Crypto Exchanges Looking to Introduce more Regulation to Trading in Digital Assets

September 14, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Commentary, Exchange, Finance, Investment, News, Regulation

With prices falling and the assets straddling the lines between new technology and traditional finance, 2018 has been a difficult year for the crypto market. Business Insider spoke with senior staff from two of the most significant Australian crypto exchanges and with the corporate regulator ASIC on September 13, 2018,...

Huobi Cryptocurrency Exchange Acquires Majority Stake in BitTrade

September 14, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Ethereum, Exchange, Finance, Investment, News

The third largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world by 24-hour trading volume Huobi has acquired a majority stake in the Japanese-licensed crypto trading platform, BitTrade, as first reported by Tech In Asia on September 12, 2018. Huobi Invests in BitTrade Per sources close to the matter, Huobi Japan Holding Ltd,...

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Japan’s FSA to Add to Crypto Team for Exchange License Reviews

September 14, 2018 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Crime, Ethereum, Exchange, Finance, News, Regulation

The Japanese financial regulatory body is contemplating an expansion of its team focused on cryptocurrency and related activities. Observing the growing interest of Japanese companies in establishing a digital currency exchange, The Financial Services Agency (FSA) is set to bring more breadth to its team in 2019, per a Reuters...

Barclays Explores Cryptocurrency Trading Desk Despite Denying Interest

Making way for Institutions: Wyre and Republic Protocol to Offer Compliance to the Crypto Averse

September 14, 2018 by Liam J Kelly at Blockchain, Business, Finance, News, Regulation

On September 14, 2018, fintech startups Wyre and Republic Protocol announced their partnership to promote the uptake of institutional investors to Republic’s decentralized dark pool among other advantages. The increased liquidity and KYC/AML compliance offered by Wyre will help build “a powerful nexus between digital assets and the traditional financial...

The Great Crypto Crash of 2018 Is Officially Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash

September 13, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Commentary, Finance, Investment, News

The cryptocurrency market value has fallen hard from its all-time highs in January 2018 at $813.8 billion to $186.9 billion in September 2018. The cryptocurrency market has plunged 80 percent and thus surpassed the decline from the dot-com bubble crash in 2000 according to a Bloomberg article released on September...

Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP Weekly Market Update

September 13, 2018 by Georgi Hristov at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Finance, News, News Digest, Price Analysis

After a turbulent mid-week action, we saw BTC trading around the $6,400 level on September 7, 2018. The biggest cryptocurrency did, however, briefly achieve 55 percent of market dominance, its highest point since December 2017. BTC-USD The cryptocurrency market continued to demonstrate one of the steepest declines in the past...

Coinbase Investigation Concludes There Was No Insider Trading Ahead of Bitcoin Cash Launch

Morgan Stanley Joins the Bitcoin Derivatives Party

September 13, 2018 by Liam J Kelly at Adoption, Bitcoin, Business, Finance, Investment, News

An anonymous source revealed on September 13, 2018, that Morgan Stanley will soon launch a Bitcoin derivative available to institutional investors. Interested parties will have actionable “synthetic exposure” to the leading cryptocurrency’s market movements. The announcement ties neatly into the recent news of Citigroup’s digital asset receipts and Goldman Sach’s...

Ripple and R3 End Year-Long Legal Battle with a Settlement

September 12, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Business, Finance, News

Ripple Labs and R3 Consortium released an official announcement on September 10, 2018, stating that both parties have managed to settle their year-long legal dispute. “Happy” to Put the Dispute in the Past Ripple Labs Inc. and XRP II, LLC released an official statement to Business Wire confirming that Ripple...

ICO Boom Over? August ICO Funding Figures Show 16-Month Low

September 12, 2018 by Priyeshu Garg at Altcoins, Blockchain, Business, Ethereum, Finance, News

New research data from Autonomous Research puts the total amount raised from ICOs last month at $326 million, the lowest figure in more than a year. A September 10, 2018 report by Bloomberg outlines a bleak ICO market hit by declining investment levels, which in turn may be fuelling an...

U.S. Federal Securities Laws Can Cover Cryptoassets Says American DOJ

September 12, 2018 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Crime, Finance, News, Regulation

In what has been tagged a first-of-its-kind ruling, a United States Judge has declared that the country’s federal securities legislation can be employed in prosecuting organizers of fraudulent cryptocurrency-linked investment schemes, reported Reuters on September 11, 2018. REcoin and Diamond ICO Organizers in the SEC Snare Per the report, United...

KuCoin Invests $3 Million in Aussie Crypto Exchange Bitcoin Australia to Expand its Market Down under

September 12, 2018 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at News

Singaporean cryptocurrency exchange, KuCoin is set to enter the Australian waters as it looks to expand its operations down under. Per a report by The Australian Financial Review on September 9, 2018, KuCoin has made an investment of $3 million in the Aussie exchange Bitcoin Australia. Along with this, the...

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Cryptocurrency Custody Services May Be the Best way to Safe Keep Cryptocurrencies

September 12, 2018 by Cindy Huynh at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Business, Commentary, Exchange, Finance, News, Regulation

Invault, a Shanghai-based blockchain startup believes that the removal of any human oversight when it comes to holding cryptocurrencies is the best way to ensure that the assets are secure and safe. According to The South China Morning Post’s article released on September 11, 2018, many cryptocurrency exchanges are aware...

Official launch of Liquid, a new Crypto Platform Opening up Liquidity for Crypto Markets Worldwide

September 11, 2018 by Guest Post at Press Releases

Liquid accessibility to bolster sector-wide liquidity. TOKYO, Japan, September 11, 2018 - Global fintech company Quoine has unveiled Liquid, a cryptocurrency one-stop trading portal, which will allow users to access a worldwide network of cryptocurrency exchanges. At launch, Liquid allows users to match trades across multiple transactions and cryptocurrencies. For example,...

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