2019-2-15 01:45 |
While crypto-land is abuzz about JPMorgan’s plan to move dollars via blockchain, a smaller New York bank is already doing this.
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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For those QuadrigaCX users who were fortunate enough to have withdrawal requests honored, some appear to have received their funds through unconventional means. An anonymous QuadrigaCX user who corresponded with Bitcoin Magazine said that they received a bank deposit from Robertson Nova Consulting Inc.
2019-2-15 20:28 | |
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According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.
2019-2-6 01:17 | |
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The cryptocurrency exchange of Bitstamp has partnered with Dukascopy Bank to enable crypto funding for the clients of the bank. The bank is a leading Swiss online bank and its clients can now send Bitcoin (BTC) to their accounts and the crypto will be converted to US Dollars which they can use to trade on […] The post Bitstamp Partners With Leading Swiss Online Bank to Enable Bitcoin (BTC) Funding and Withdrawals appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-1-26 10:24 | |
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Bloomberg has claimed to have witnessed bank statements evidencing that Tether does indeed possess the dollars required to back the USDT tokens that are in circulation. Despite the bold claim, nearly all documentation cited in the report is dated from the year 2017.
2018-12-21 01:00 | |
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A report by Bloomberg is shedding light on Tether’s finances and suggests that Tether may be fully-backed by US dollars in a bank account. The financial news publication was able to gain access to documents that appear to show that Tether has sufficient fiat currency to underwrite its dollar-backed cryptocurrency.
2018-12-21 20:00 | |
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Rumors about stablecoin Tether not being fully backed by dollar reserves are looking increasingly thin, according to the latest bank statements, which show that USDT is fully backed by dollar reserves.
2018-12-18 16:00 | |
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Fortress Blockchain’s net loss worsened to $1. 16 million (1. 55 million Canadian dollars) in the third quarter, from $202,000 in the preceding three-month period, as price pressure continues to mount in the global bitcoin mining industry.
2018-11-29 19:05 | |
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For the first time, the U. S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.
2018-11-29 21:41 | |
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Virtual currencies have been growing during the last years. Bitcoin has reached $20,000 dollars and several experts believe that it could be able to replace gold. However, there are some analysts that suggest that Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) could replace virtual currencies as we know them. Just a few weeks ago, Christine Lagarde, the […]
2018-11-26 13:44 | |
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Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.
2018-11-22 22:05 | |
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
2018-11-15 22:14 | |
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“Go for the Jugular” is the advice George Soros gave to his team during his famous attack on the British pound for a profit of $1 billion on so-called Black Wednesday in 1992.
2018-11-15 18:50 | |
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Swiss crypto exchange trade. io reported on October 20th that $8 million dollars worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from its cold storage devices by hackers. It is at this point unclear how the funds were withdrawn.
2018-10-24 01:10 | |
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Fresh on the market, the industry’s newest batch of stablecoins is having trouble striking a price balance. Amidst news of listings on Huobi and OKEx, two of the industry’s largest exchanges, TrueUSD (TUSD), Gemini USD (GUSD), the Paxos Standard (PAX) and Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) have all risen well above their pegs.
2018-10-17 01:17 | |
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After a seemingly endless cycle of non-action, the crypto market finally saw a spark of life on Monday, as fears of a Tether ‘bank run’ hit newfound highs, while confusion strong-handed investors into making moves.
2018-10-16 13:00 | |
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Tether’s peg is slipping, and an exchange-wide firesale has led to major price discrepancies between bitcoin’s BTC/USDT and BTC/USD trading pairs across the market.
2018-10-16 22:06 | |
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The popular digital currency exchange, Bitfinex has reportedly stopped its USD deposits to their exchange. This news comes after last weeks, several rumours that the exchange was broke which made management forced to step up and deny the rumours that they were not bankrupt.
2018-10-11 21:30 | |
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Top-three cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is pushing back against claims that call its solvency into question. The Hong Kong-based company released a blog post on October 7, 2017, that states, contrary to recent rumors, it is not insolvent.
2018-10-9 00:43 | |
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Stability. The word seems to be at complete odds with the current nature of the crypto market. With its flagship coin having “died” on hundreds of occasions, volatility and meteoric price swings have come to define cryptocurrencies, as price stability, ever-elusive, is in short supply.
2018-10-3 19:05 | |
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On Wednesday, Seba Crypto AG reported that it successfully raised funds to become one of the world’s first regulated banks to allow customers to easily trade dollars and euros with cryptocurrency.
2018-9-29 16:00 | |
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Earlier this month, Danske Bank, the biggest bank in Denmark, faced its largest scandal to date for laundering more than $230 billion. Despite the billions of dollars banks launder on a daily basis, critics are still focused on crypto exchanges.
2018-9-29 10:00 | |
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On September 24, 2018, MIT Connection Science and IBM issued a 41-page joint report on the results of three roundtable discussions on the role of Blockchain in government.
2018-9-27 22:12 | |
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Today Circle and the CENTRE open source consortium introduced a service to tokenize US dollars and use those dollars over public blockchains on the internet: USD//Coin, also known as USDC. Individuals and institutions can enroll in this service to deposit US dollars from bank accounts, convert those dollars into
2018-10-5 16:00 | |
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European banks have allegedly been complicit as corrupt African leaders pilfer the wealth of their economies in the billions of dollars. The Angolan government on Monday arrested the son of ex-president Jose dos Santos for stealing $500 million from the country’s sovereign wealth fund, with the help of a British bank.
2018-9-26 03:15 | |
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The Bank of America have released data that shows how Bitcoin transfers equate to around 6000 times cheaper than the traditional transfer of FIAT currencies at the banks own standard rates. Many do argue that Bitcoin transactions carry a ridiculous expense, however with these findings in mind, Bitcoin is still proving to be a far superior alternative to FIAT currencies.
2018-9-21 20:00 | |
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This week, Danish publications reported that Danske Bank CEO has resigned amidst allegations of potential money laundering hundreds of billions of dollars, an amount that is equivalent to the market cap of crypto.
2018-9-21 14:00 | |
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Thursday 13th September 2018 was when Ripple announced on their website that NCB (National Commercial Bank) of the Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) has become the latest enterprise customer and joined up with RippleNet and Ripple’s fast growing network of payment providers, virtual asset exchanges, banks etc.
2018-9-14 16:30 | |
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For the last ten years the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been one of the largest sources of remittances in the world. According to the World Bank, 308 million dollars were sent into the KSA, and 37 billion dollars in remittances were sent from the country in 2016.
2018-9-15 07:28 | |
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University of Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen has taken a swipe at the viability of stablecoins in an op-ed published on Project Syndicate. The critique, entitled “The Stable-Coin Myth,” argues stablecoins are not automatically "viable" just because they are pegged to an asset, though Eichengreen does believe they have an advantage over "conventional cryptocurrencies" such as bitcoin which he says "is highly unstable" and "unattractive as units of account.
2018-9-13 18:07 | |
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Two crypto companies, Gemini Trust and Paxos, got a green light from a New York state regulator to launch their own stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U. S. dollar. New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) gave an okay to Gemini Trust, the crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, to launch Gemini Dollar (GUSD).
2018-9-11 01:58 | |
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Two securities, one that tracks bitcoin and another that tracks the cryptocurrency ether, have been temporarily halted by a U. S. regulatory watchdog due to investor confusion.
2018-9-11 22:01 | |
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New York regulators have given the green light to Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ first cryptocurrency, a stablecoin attached to their trading platform Gemini. Solving Stablecoin ‘Trust Problems’ As Forbes reports on September 10, the token, the Gemini Dollar, will have the backing of investment bank State Street, which takes custody of the fiat dollars it is backed by.
2018-9-10 19:00 | |
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American investors can now invest in bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) through an Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) called Bitcoin Tracker One on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange in Sweden, per a Bloomberg report.
2018-8-16 22:09 | |
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The World Bank has chosen the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to help organize a new Ethereum blockchain bond denominated in Australian dollars. The bond is projected to raise between $50-$100 million, and proceeds will go towards sustainable development initiatives.
2018-8-13 08:00 | |
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The mythical fountain of youth. The tales of it appeared in writings by Herodotus, it was sought by the emperors of ancient China, for its sake alchemists spent years trying to create a philosopher's stone.
2018-8-7 12:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency-focused merchant bank Galaxy Digital started trading on a Canadian stock exchange on Wednesday despite cooling investor interest and falling prices this year. The stock opened at 2. 75 Canadian dollars on the Toronto’s TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker GLXY.
2018-8-1 20:17 | |
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After experiencing troubles with user withdrawals, London-based digital asset exchange CEX.IO once again debuts its bank transfer service, promising seamless fiat transfers in US dollars, euro, and British pounds.
2018-8-2 20:15 | |
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One of the oldest bank in America with one trillion dollars worth of assets under management that caters to corporations, institutional investors, and high net worth individuals, is assisting hedge funds.
2018-8-1 14:34 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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The merchant bank belonging to billionaire and Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz, Galaxy, has led a $52. 5 million dollar fundraising round for New York-based crypto-lender BlockFi. BlockFi allows investors to borrow as much as $10 million dollars in fiat currencies against their balances of Bitcoin or Ethereum.
2018-7-26 07:11 | |
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The merchant bank belonging to billionaire and Bitcoin bull Mike Novogratz, Galaxy, has led a $52. 5 million dollar fundraising round for New York-based crypto-lender BlockFi. BlockFi allows investors to borrow as much as $10 million dollars in fiat currencies against their balances of Bitcoin or Ethereum.
2018-7-25 04:27 | |
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And the latest stablecoin to hit the market involves an interesting supporter, computer technology giant IBM. Stronghold USD is said to be backed one-to-one by fiat US dollars held at the company’s partner bank, Prime Trust.
2018-7-18 14:15 | |
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It seems like a new alternative for Tether (USDT) pops up at least once a week recently. And the latest stablecoin to hit the market involves an interesting supporter, computer technology giant IBM.
2018-7-18 12:21 | |
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Balaji S. Srinivasan, CTO of Coinbase and co-founder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and CoinCenter tweeted out his response to the Bank for International Settlements’ critical warnings about cryptocurrency including that digital commerce will ‘bring the internet to a halt,’ Srinivasan responded to the group’s warnings by tweeting “Well, if central banks hadn’t created all those dollars,.
2018-7-7 15:00 | |
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Tether Ltd. , which issues a stable coin allegedly tied to U. S. dollar reserves, claims it has hired Freeh Sporkin & Sullivan LLP — a law firm co-founded by FBI Director Louis Freeh — to confirm its bank deposits and assure investors that its cryptocurrency is backed by USD.
2018-6-21 23:05 | |
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Wall Street yawned yesterday as JPMorgan Chase & Co, the largest American bank, agreed to pay a fine of $65 million dollars for market manipulation. The fine was issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as penalty after discovering that traders had intentionally manipulated exchange rates in the $300-trillion-dollar swap market.
2018-6-19 04:57 | |
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Bittrex announced it is now taking on retail customers trading in US dollars in four states as it has successfully moved through its corporate phase after only two weeks. Bittrex Requiting Retail Clients for USD Market The Seatle based crypto exchange Bittrex which announced that it had secured a deal with Signature Bank allowing it.
2018-6-15 09:00 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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JPMorgan’s JPM Coin, processing $1 billion daily, is projected to handle up to $10 billion in transactions within the next year. The bank’s global head of payments for financial institutions, Umar Farooq, announced this estimate. Farooq said he expects transactions…
Wall Street giant JPMorgan has officially launched programmable payment functionality on its institutional blockchain platform, JPM Coin, according to Onyx head of coin systems Naveen Mallela. Mallela said the new solution is a “holy grail” for the JPM Coin platform and expects it to open a new frontier in digital finance.
A LinkedIn post from JPMorgan Managing Director Naveen Mallela shares that the programmable payments product JPMorgan Chase & Co’s JPM Coin is now generally available to institutional clients.
The bank also plans to expand support for fiat currencies to deal with JPM Coin other than the U.S. dollar and euro. JPMorgan’s blockchain-powered stablecoin JPM Coin, pegged to the U.S. dollar, has reached the $1 billion mark in processed…
JPMorgan has plans to widen the coin's usage the bank's head of payments Takis Georgakopoulos said in an interview.
JPMorgan praised deposit tokens for their potential, alongside stablecoins. The bank sees the tokenization of fiat deposits as a game-changer that can enhance accessibility across major blockchains.
JPMorgan Chase has added several new positions related to cryptocurrencies, and will expand its crypto services in the merchant and consumer payments space. The post JPMorgan Expanding Crypto Services, Hiring Related Experts appeared first on BeInCrypto.