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FCA: Banks Should Apply ‘Enhanced Scrutiny’ on Cryptocurrency Customers

June 12, 2018

The financial watchdog of the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has sent a letter to the CEOs of banks entitled ‘cryptoassets and financial crime’. Recipients are told that given the emerging eviden...

Founder of TRON Cryptocurrency Quietly Acquires BitTorrent

June 12, 2018

Justin Sun, the developer of the TRON blockchain platform, has reportedly acquired software company BitTorrent Inc., developers and maintainers of peer-to-peer file transfer protocol BitTorrent. Variety repo...

Binance Set to Offer Fiat-Based Trading Pairs

June 12, 2018

Binance, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is planning to introduce crypto to fiat trading pairs, according to multiple recent reports. The exchange will use its new base at Malta to i...

Binance User Base Reaches 9 Million, Extends Trading Support with ETC Pairs

June 12, 2018

Binance has surpassed another milestone by adding nine million users to its platform, as revealed to Bloomberg by the firm’s CEO Zhao Changpeng. This is a huge achievement for the exchange as in mere six mont...

Chinese Blockchain News Platform Mars Finance Raises $51 Million in Funding Round

June 12, 2018

On June 8, 2018, Chinese blockchain news platform Mars Finance announced it raised $51 million in a funding round led by Ceyuan Ventures and Huobi Global Ecosystem Fund. Extraordinary Growth of Mars Finan...

New Organisation Formed in Switzerland to Promote Blockchain Use in Finance

June 12, 2018

A new blockchain association has been created in Switzerland to facilitate the use of blockchain technology in the financial market. The Capital Markets and Technology Association, as it has been called, was...

MyBit Integrates Bancor Protocol to Increase Liquidity

June 11, 2018

MyBit, an Ethereum-powered ecosystem that connects the global IoT industry, has integrated Bancor’s decentralized liquidity network support to its platform to help it offer decentralized applications that are...

US CFTC Suspects Bitcoin Futures Price Manipulation, Subpoenas Exchanges

June 10, 2018

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sent subpoenas to four cryptocurrency exchanges asking for trading data, according to the Wall Street Journal which cited people familiar with the matter...

B2Broker Opens New Office at Cyprus

June 7, 2018

B2Broker, a liquidity and technology provider of solutions for the crypto and forex industry, has announced the opening of a new office in Cyprus. The firm will use the strategically located office to serve i...

SWIFT Head of Banking: “What Problems Are You Trying to Fix?”

June 6, 2018

SWIFT declares on the website of its Global Payments Innovation service: “No other service can securely deliver hundreds of billions of dollars in payments around the world – timed in seconds.” When one cons...