Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 79 of 298

France Launches Crackdown on Cryptocurrencies

December 10, 2020

Bruno Le Maire, the Finance Minister of France, ordered all cryptocurrency providers to check and reveal the identity of cryptocurrency owners in an effort to stop the potential involvement of digital assets ...

FDCTech Taps GCEX for FX and Cryptocurrency Liquidity

December 10, 2020

FDCTech, a forex and CFDs trading technology provider, has signed crypto startup GCEX to provide 24-hour crypto trading, as well as FX and crypto liquidity using FDC’s Condor FX Pro trading platform. FDCTech...

Criminals Using Privacy Wallets to Hide Stolen Bitcoin, Report Says

December 10, 2020

London-based crypto assets risk management solutions provider, Elliptic released a report yesterday, which shows that nearly 13% of overall criminal proceeds in Bitcoin were sent to privacy wallets like Wasab...

Standard Chartered Bank To Debut Crypto Trading For Institutional Investors

December 9, 2020

Standard Chartered bank to debut crypto trading for institutional investors.The London Standard Chartered Bank has brought together a group of crypto exchanges for a new digital asset trading platform targete...

Over 100,000 ETH2 Locked For Staking Via Kraken In Four Days

December 9, 2020

Over 100,000 ETH2 locked for staking via Kraken in four days. Customers of the famous U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken have deposited over 100,000 Ethers, worth over $60 million, only four days after...

Mexican Authorities Are Struggling To Cope As Cartels Adopt Crypto

December 9, 2020

Mexican authorities are struggling to cope as cartels adopt crypto. The Mexican authorities have reported a rise in the use of crypto assets to launder criminal syndicates funds in Latin America. In a Dec. 8 ...

Crypto Trading Platform Robinhood Taps Goldman Sachs for $20 Billion IPO

December 9, 2020

US-based financial services company, Robinhood has selected Goldman Sachs to lead the process of an initial public offering (IPO) with an expected valuation of more than $20 billion. The company is planning t...

Bitcoin Is a Warning to Government Money Printers, Morgan Stanley Exec Says

December 9, 2020

Ruchir Sharma, Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Chief Global Strategist has outlined the significant competition that the current financial system is facing from bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. In ...

Japanese Financial Giant Announce Joint Crypto Venture With SIX Swiss Exchange

December 8, 2020

Japanese financial giant announce joint crypto venture with SIX Swiss Exchange. The Swiss main stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, and the Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings have announced a joint cryptocu...

Top Exec Say Facebook Hopes To Introduce Its Crypto And Wallet In 2021

December 8, 2020

Top exec say Facebook hopes to introduce its crypto and wallet in 2021. A top executive at Facebook Financial said that global regulators should give Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Diem "the benefit of doubt"...