British financial advisor calls on the gov’t to ban crypto transactions

Veteran financial advisor Neil Liversidge came to the U.K. Government and Parliament with a petition to ban crypto transactions.

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Financial Advisor Urges UK Government to Ban Bitcoin

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Biden considering Gary Gensler for Deputy Treasury Secretary

The former CFTC chairman is currently working as a financial advisor for the Biden-Harris transition team.

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Chief NYSE Regulator Hired as Crypto Advisor for Andreessen Horowitz

The New York Stock Exchange’s top financial regulator is leaving his post for a crypto-related position at venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Anthony Albanese, who has served as NYSE’s chief regulatory officer for the last four years, will join the famous Silicon Valley investment firm in mid-November as a […] The post Chief NYSE Regulator Hired as Crypto Advisor for Andreessen Horowitz appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Resolute.Fund Engages MAS Capital Group for a US$250,000,000 U.S. Real Estate Fund Offering

Resolute.Fund, Inc., A U.S. real estate fund structured using blockchain technology, has engaged MAS Capital Group, Inc., as its financial advisor for a US$250 million...

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Those Who Bought Bitcoin (BTC) at $20,000 Now Buying Tesla (TSLA) at $1,700: CNBC?s Douglas Boneparth

Tesla (TSLA) at $1,700 seems similar to Bitcoin at $20,000 to financial advisor Douglas Boneparth

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Lykke Launches COVID-19 Project to Fund Global Supply Chain Solutions and Announces Chris Giancarlo as Strategic Advisor for The Open Initiative

Lykke Corp, the Swiss fintech company and builder of marketplaces for digital financial assets, today launched The Open Initiative, a project dedicated to helping governments envision the ways digital technology can transform the global supply chain and financial system in a post-COVID-19 economy

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From Corrupt to Broken: An Insider’s Analysis of the Fed, Feat. Danielle Dimartino Booth

An advisor to the Fed through the Great Financial Crisis to 2015 examines the latest in the largest monetary policy experiment in human history.

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Billionaire is Raising $450 Million to Invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum

Andreessen Horowitz, one of the biggest Venture Capitalist firm registered as a financial advisor, is looking to raise $450 million to invest in cryptos. The Coinbase backer, which has also... The post Billionaire is Raising $450 Million to Invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum appeared first on Trustnodes.

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Victims Accuse Wells Fargo Subsidiary of Turning Blind Eye to $35M Crypto Ponzi

Plaintiffs claim Wells Fargo Advisors did not check on the activities of a financial advisor accused of defrauding 150 investors.

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ConsenSys Moves to Tokenize State Bonds

Ethereum’s powerhouse ConsenSys has acquired a SEC registered advisor and broker with the aim of tokenizing state and local government fundraising through bonds. The acquisition of Heritage Financial Systems will.

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Tyrone Ross on Why Financial Advisors Are Taking Notice of DeFi

Financial advisor and crypto advocate Tyrone Ross joins for hot takes on financial advisors, DeFi and the most important company in crypto.

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US Capital Global Securities to advise crypto custodian Koine on $50M raise

Koine, a provider of segregated, institutional custody and settlement services for digital assets, announced today has retained US Capital Global Securities as its lead financial advisor on a $50 million equity raise.

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Top U.S. Financial Advisor: Buy Companies, Not Bitcoin

Forbes? top in-state financial advisor, Peter Mallouk, criticized cryptocurrency investments. CNBC reported on what Mr. Mallouk recommends buying instead.

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Sarson Funds partners with Vertalo for cap table management and tokenization

Vertalo, a provider of software for digital assets, connecting broker-dealers, issuers, custodians and exchanges through its B2B SaaS platform, today announced a new partnership with Sarson Funds, a provider of cryptocurrency educational services and investment vehicles designed for the financial advisor community and their clients.

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Blockchain Will Kill the UK’s Financial Services Industry, According to IBM Advisor

The success of peer-to-peer cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology could spell the end of the UK’s financial services sector, potentially dealing a death blow to the National Health Service at the same time—according to John Straw, an expert on digital disruption.

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MavixBTC Served Cease and Desist by Missouri Securities Regulator

MavixBTC, a get-rich-quick scheme feeding off the popularity of crypto assets, was served a cease-and-desist order. The Missouri Securities Division ordered the firm to stop operations based on accusations of dishonest offers.

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Facebook’s Libra ‘is being done transparently,’ claims Swiss FINMA’s Head

Mark Branson, Head of Swiss financial advisor FINMA, is in the news after he said that Switzerland is more concerned about cryptocurrencies being developed outside government scrutiny, than it is about Libra, the proposed cryptocurrency project by Facebook.

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Financial Advisor Predicts Boom for Bitcoin if Trump Cuts Interest Rates

As US President Donald Trump calls for more interest rate cuts Dan Tapiero, of DTAP Capital, predicts a boom for Bitcoin.

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Ex-Coinbase CTO To Be Decentralized Finance Blockchain Project Findora’s New Strategic Advisor

Coinbase’s former CTO Balaji Srinivasan has just decided to be a part of Findora, a blockchain company focused on decentralizing the financial market. The former Coinbase exec will become one of the new strategic advisors of the project.

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Crypto trading firm GSR appoints Xin Song as advisor for expansion into China

Crypto trading firm GSR appoints Xin Song as advisor for expansion into China » CryptoNinjas GSR, a cryptocurrency liquidity services and order execution firm, today announced the appointment of Xin Song as a specialist advisor to oversee expansion into Mainland China.

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Bitfinex, Attorney General Legal Sparring Continues With New Court Filings

Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.

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High Net Worth Individuals are Increasing Their Exposure to Cryptocurrencies

A survrey conducted by deVere Group showed 68 percent of their clients have already invested in or plan to invest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple, as reported on May 3, 2019, by TechRound.

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The Future Of Banking On Ethereum

In light of the $112 million bond issued by Societe Generale, Michael J. Casey, senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative, discusses the future of permissionless blockchain platforms and security token offerings in the financial services industry.

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Tiffany Hayden Claims XRP Price Will Eventually Catch Up With Development!

In a heated debate on Twitter, Financial advisor and XRP enthusiast Tiffany Hayden was embroiled in a discussion around the price of XRP. CCN News initially tweeted an article regarding PayPal Director Xapo CEO Wences Casares stating ‘One Bitcoin Could Exceed $1 Million in 7-10 years” The tweet caught the attention of many followers quite […] The post Tiffany Hayden Claims XRP Price Will Eventually Catch Up With Development! appeared first on ZyCrypto.

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Top Trump Advisor’s Shocking Claim Proves Why We Need Bitcoin

As the Trump administration passes a snowballing debt pile onto Generation Z with self-serving monetary policy, a powerful pro-Bitcoin argument once confined to developing nations is coming home to roost.

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The Advisor Blockchain and CryptoAsset Council (ABCC) – BitcoinExchangeGuide.com

What Is The Advisor Blockchain and CryptoAsset Council (ABCC)? Ric Edelman, a prominent financial advisor, developed ABCC after a meeting on June 2018 with Ray Sclafani of ClientWise, Paul Pagnato of Pagnato Karp, Alex Potts of Loring Ward, and Jamie McIntyre of Rewire Capital.

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Blockchain Mortgage Tech Startup Acre Software Raises $6.5 Mln From UK Financial Advisor

A startup applying blockchain to mortgages, Acre Software, raised about $6.5 million from UK financial adviser Sesame Bankhall Group

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VELIC Secures Investment from Japanese Venture Capital, B Dash Ventures

Hiroyuki Watanabe, CEO of B Dash Ventures, joins as an advisor for VELIC VELIC, a digital asset platform based in Singapore, announced an investment from a fund managed by B Dash Ventures, a prominent venture capital in Japan.

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$10 Billion Wealth Advisor: Global FOMO Primes Bitcoin for 40% Surge

Bitcoin is primed for a bull run to $7,000 later this year, says a major global asset management and financial advisory company in comments early Tuesday morning. DeVere: Crypto Winter is Over & Bitcoin Will Boom Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of DeVere Group, a $10 billion financial advisory and wealth management firm for high net worth individuals, says crypto winter is over: “I’m now calling that the market has bottomed and the so-called crypto winter has come to an end.

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VELIC Secures Investment from Japanese Venture Capital, B Dash Ventures

Hiroyuki Watanabe, CEO of B Dash Ventures, joins as an advisor for VELIC VELIC, a digital asset platform based in Singapore, announced an investment from a fund managed by B Dash Ventures, prominent venture capital in Japan.

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VELIC Secures Investment from Japanese Venture Capital, B Dash Ventures

VELIC, a digital asset platform based in Singapore, announced an investment from a fund managed by B Dash Ventures, prominent venture capital in Japan. The investment will jumpstart VELIC’s blockchain financial ecosystem, and Hiroyuki Watanabe, CEO of B Dash Ventures, will serve as an advisor to provide further insight and network in the blockchain space.

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From Bears to Bulls: Financial Advisors Change Opinions About Bitcoin After Crash Course

Financial advisors only need to be educated on Bitcoin (BTC) to turn from skeptics to believers.   Ric Edelman staged a Blockchain and Cryptoasset Pre-Event with Barron’s Top Independent Advisor Summit ten days ago.

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LocalBitcoins, Once a Go-To for Anonymous Bitcoin Transactions, Adds KYC

The Finland-based, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform LocalBitcoins released a statement on March 25, 2019, responding to a new act approved by the Finnish Parliament that will require users to verify their identities.

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Staten Island Bitcoin Fraudster Indicted

A Staten Island man has been indicted for posing online as a masked financial advisor. He is accused of donning the infamous ‘anonymous’ hacker mask in a video and duping investors into his sham cryptocurrency firm.

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Veteran Wall Street Advisor Reaffirms His Notion That a Bitcoin ETF Is Inevitable

Ric Edelman, the founder of Edelman Financial Services, has reaffirmed his belief that a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. He made the comments on Feb. 11 while speaking on CNBC’s “ETF Edge” at the Inside ETFs Conference in Hollywood, Florida.

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Bitcoin ETF is Just a Matter of Time, Says Prominent Wall Street Advisor Ric Edelman

CoinSpeaker Bitcoin ETF is Just a Matter of Time, Says Prominent Wall Street Advisor Ric Edelman According to Ric Edelman, the founder of Edelman Financial Engines, ETFs will eventually meet the demands of the SEC and get the Commission's approval.

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A Bitcoin ETF is ‘Virtually Certain’, Only Matter of time for SEC Approval: Wall Street Advisor

The prospect of a Bitcoin ETF is ‘virtually certain’ according to finance manager Ric Edelman, who is confident that either VanEck or Bitwise will satisfy the demands of the SEC. The founder of Edelman Financial Engines told CNBC’s Bob Pisani on Monday’s ETF Edge: “It’s virtually certain.

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Litecoin Price Analysis: How High Will Halving Hype Push LTC?

In approximately 179 days, Litecoin (LTC) will undergo a block-reward halving — cutting the coin reward for miners from 25 to 12. 5 coins. With fundamental developments like confidential transactions reportedly in the works and the popular altcoin experiencing price-strength confirmation, how high will the impending halving hype push the price of the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency?  [Disclaimer: The following article is not financial advice and should not be construed as such.

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McAdam Financial Advisor Calculates Bitcoin Benefits, Says Short Rent-Seeking Middlemen Bankers

Ever since the origination of Bitcoin, there have been many critics in the traditional financial system who went after it as an alternative. They quickly attacked, saying that cryptocurrency is slow, expensive, and even supportive of anarchism.

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“Short The Bankers”: Financial Advisor Lauds Bitcoin (BTC) After BoA Charges

Banks Are 3,200% More Expensive Than Crypto Since Bitcoin (BTC) came into being, it has been lauded for being an alternative to the traditional financial system. Yet, those with a vested interest in this dinosaur-esque world have quickly rebutted these cries, noting that cryptocurrencies are not only slow, but are expensive, pro-anarchism, and accessible for […] The post “Short The Bankers”: Financial Advisor Lauds Bitcoin (BTC) After BoA Charges appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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Financial Advisor: Major Banks are 3,233% More Expensive Than Bitcoin

A financial professional paid $10 to his bank for making more than six saving withdrawals. Later, he admitted that using Bitcoin could have been cheaper. Short the Bankers Pat Chirchirillo, a financial advisor at Philadelphia-based McAdam Financial, found a 3,233% different between the cost of withdrawals in banks and Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin Price: Financial Advisors Targeting $17,571 in Dec 2023

The majority of financial advisors believe that Bitcoin will increase in price over the next half-decade.   This finding comes from a Bitwise Asset Management’s and ETF Trend’s inaugural “Bitwise/ETF Trends Survey of Financial Advisor Attitudes Towards Cryptoassets,” which surveyed more than 150 financial advisors — including independent broker-dealer reps, financial planners, and wirehouse reps — last month.

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Economist’s Quip That Bitcoin (BTC) Fails Financial “Tests” Is Wrong: Hot Take

Davos may be an event centered around the realm of traditional finance, but crypto & blockchain technologies have been mentioned. In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV, Huw Van Steenis, senior advisor to Bank of England’s governor, Mark Carney, bashed this nascent asset class.

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Bank of England Senior Advisor: Cryptocurrencies Neither a Good Store of Value nor a Medium of Exchange

Huw van Steenis, the senior advisor to Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney believes that cryptocurrencies “fail fundamental tests” to compete with the traditional financial market institutions, reports Bloomberg on January 21, 2019.

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Marshall Island Hires Malta’s Strategic Advisor to Assist in the Issue of an Official Cryptocurrency

The government of the Marshall Islands, headed by Hilda Heine, stands firm in its efforts to issue an official cryptocurrency as a mechanism for optimizing financial services and avoiding an exclusive dependence on US Dollars to ensure the proper functioning of banking operations.

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Allianz Asks to Ban Crypto After Calling Bitcoin a ‘Buy’ Under $5K

Allianz CEO has called on global regulators to outlaw cryptocurrency, contradicting the company’s chief financial advisor, who said Bitcoin would be a good buy under $5,000 earlier this year.

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IBM Presents Blockchain and Enterprise Adoption and The Team-Up You Never Knew You Needed

Blockchain is here to stay — no matter what your stuffy old financial advisor says. The road forward is pretty rough though, we’re not going to lie; it’s especially rocky because there’s so little adoption of blockchain-based technologies outside of very strict fintech settings.

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Mining Giant Bitfury Raises $80 Million in Closed Funding Round

Bitfury, a San Francisco-based provider of blockchain infrastructure, has just closed an $80 million funding round led by venture capital firm Korelya Capital, the company announced in a press release on November 6, 2018.

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