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Deutsche Börse announced the launch of a new crypto spot platform for institutions in collaboration with Crypto Finance, a FINMA-regulated provider of trading it acquired in 2021. Deutsche Börse Group, a German multinational financial behemoth, has announced the launch of…
Frankfurt has emerged as the most suitable location for the situation of anti-money laundering and counterterrorism financing (AML/CFT) authority headquarters in Europe.
Telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom has announced a partnership with the Fetch.ai Foundation. According to the blog post, the main goal of cooperation is to promote the development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI) in the Web3 industry. Deutsche Telekom will…
Switzerland-based crypto brokerage firm Crypto Finance has obtained four licenses from Germany’s BaFin as it plans to double down on the European market. Digital asset brokerage firm Crypto Finance owned by multinational financial giant Deutsche Börse has secured four licenses…
DZ Bank, Germany's second-largest financial institution, plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading pilot.
German authorities have confiscated approximately 50,000 Bitcoins, valued at around $2.1 billion.
Germany's Bitcoin Group is implementing improvements to its internal control system following BaFin's directive to its subsidiary futurum bank to address deficiencies in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures.
German Bundestag member Joana Cotar advocates for Bitcoin's recognition as a legal tender, aiming to balance innovation with regulatory security.
Commerzbank becomes the first major German bank to receive a cryptocurrency custody license, signaling a strategic move into digital asset services.
DZ Bank launches a blockchain-based digital asset custody platform, advancing Germany's crypto services for institutional and private clients.
The cryptocurrency custodian BitGo, backed by Goldman Sachs and Galaxy, obtained a custody license from BaFin, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, as stated in a Nov. 1 release from Finance Magnates.
Coinbase, one of the world’s largest exchanges, announced Germany as being its new regional Talent hub.
A German court rejected the appeal against the hefty sentences given to the management of Cyberbunker for hosting deep web black markets on their servers. The German Federal Court of Justice largely upheld the defendants’ convictions in the so-called “Cyberbunker…
Rashawn Russell admits wrongdoing after falsely promising investors ‘assured profits’ for their crypto investments. Rashawn Russell, a former investment banking professional at Deutsche Bank, is preparing to enter a guilty plea on charges of cryptocurrency fraud, according to new court…
The Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CVVC) has released the German Blockchain Report 2023. It shows a significant increase in blockchain funding within the country. The report analyzes the performance of the blockchain sector in Germany from Q3 2022 to Q2 2023. It…
France’s and Germany’s data regulators are jointly investigating Worldcoin’s data collection methods, specifically focusing on iris scans. France’s data protection regulatory authority, CNIL, has recently focused on Worldcoin. With a probe into the company’s Paris office this week, Worldcoin is…