Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 277 of 298

Swissquote Partners with Bitstamp to Launch Bitcoin Trading

July 14, 2017

Swiss bank Swissquote is the first online bank to launch Bitcoin trading. The company is pioneering a new product for the brokerage industry, choosing to launch trading in the virtual currency without leverag...

Alpari Launches New Cryptocurrency Portfolio Called Crypto Capital

July 11, 2017

Alpari Russia moved one step ahead of the competition today by launching its new cryptocurrency-based portfolio, Crypto Capital. It is a portfolio created purely with cryptocurrencies and no other instruments...

Israeli Regulator: ICOs Are a Challenge to Current Global Regulations

July 10, 2017

If anyone in the blockchain and cryptocurrency community was still wondering if regulators are aware of ICOs (initial coin offerings), we just got an answer. Israel’s chief financial watchdog gave a very hard...

SWIFT Extends Multi-lateral Testing of Blockchain Application

July 7, 2017

The network handling the majority of modern international interbank messages, SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), has announced that 22 additional global banks have joined its...

Bitcoin Swap Exchange LedgerX Granted CFTC SEF Registration

July 7, 2017

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order of Registration to LedgerX, the New York-based bitcoin swap exchange, granting it registration status as a Swap Execution Facility (SEF...

Russian Central Bank Plans to Limit the Size of Retail FX Business

July 6, 2017

The Russian Central Bank’s First Deputy Governor Sergey Shvetsov has just concluded an online streaming session, sharing some of his views on the retail forex industry in the country. Speaking to readers via ...

Alpari, Biggest FX Brokerage in Russia, Launches Bitcoin Trading

July 4, 2017

The international brand Alpari announced to its Russian speaking clients today that it has added two new Bitcoin trading instruments: CFDs (contracts for difference) on the BTC/USD and BTC/EUR pairs. Alpari ...

South Korean Lawmaker Wants to Regulate Bitcoin and Ethereum Trading

July 4, 2017

Cryptocurrency trading in South Korea is about to get a legal framework soon if one lawmaker has his way. Representative Park Yong-jin, of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, announced on Monday that he wil...

Coinbase to Reimburse GDAX Traders Who Suffered at Ethereum Flash Crash

June 27, 2017

Last week someone with a massive holding of Ethereum cashed out on GDAX, the institutional exchange of platform of Coinbase, leading the ETH market to temporarily trade as low as $0.10 whipping out many margi...

Ethereum Flash Crash Causes ETH to Temporarily Trade as Low as $0.10

June 22, 2017

If you were trading on Ethereum using any leverage yesterday and woke up today to see you got a margin call wondering what happened, here is the explanation. Someone with a massive holding of ETH cashed out o...