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Cryptocurrency exchange OKX has received a fine of 2.25 million euros from the Dutch National bank for offering crypto service without registering to the central bank. The fine covers a period of operations when the exchange offered services in the… origin »
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently announced the end of its relationship with California-based crypto-friendly bank Silvergate. The exchange has stated that it will no longer accept or initiate payments to or from the bank.
2023-3-2 19:31 | |
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Siam Commercial Bank Pcl, the oldest bank in Thailand, is getting deeper into the crypto space by acquiring a 51% stake in the local cryptocurrency exchange Bitkub for 17. 85 billion baht, more than $537 million.
2021-11-2 18:04 | |
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Exchange hacks are the biggest threats to crypto holders, as Binance users were recently reminded. But digital thieves are finding fewer opportunities to steal cryptocurrencies from investors and exchanges, according to a new report from a Liechtenstein bank.
2019-8-10 17:53 | |
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In February 2018, the Supreme Court of Israel issued a temporary injunction order forbidding a major bank in the country from halting the activity of a local cryptocurrency exchange. Now the bank has been forced to accept that the company’s account will remain open indefinitely.
2019-6-3 22:45 | |
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A South Korean district court has ruled that Nonghyup Bank, a major bank in the country, cannot block transactions to the account of cryptocurrency exchange Coinis based solely on the government’s anti-money laundering guidelines.
2018-11-1 08:35 | |
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A Brazilian court has ordered the reopening of cryptocurrency exchange Bitcoin Max’s bank accounts, which were closed without explanation by Banco do Brasil and Banco Santander in September.
2018-11-1 03:00 | |
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In this edition of The Daily, we cover Nexo’s recent decision to pay interest on stablecoin holdings, as well as a project by two Swiss cryptocurrency companies to offer exchange and custodial solutions for financial institutions that handle digital assets.
2018-10-31 16:50 | |
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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has raised a fresh $300 million in a Series E financing round, bringing the company valuation to $8 billion. Coinbase plans to use the funding to "accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrencies," as it plans to remain the "entry-point into crypto" for millions of investors, according to a published blog post.
2018-10-31 20:51 | |
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MDX or Malta Digital Exchange has named the head of Saxo bank tech division as one of its leading non-executive directors. Chris Truce, Head of Fintech in Saxo bank was appointed a non-executive director and is set to assume his role with the impending launch of the exchange. In his reaction to him considering the […]
2018-10-29 04:58 | |
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Chris Truce, a former executive at investment bank Saxo Bank, has joined the board of directors of Malta Digital Exchange.
2018-10-26 18:30 | |
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The German central bank has worked with Deutsche Boerse, a stock exchange operator, to test the blockchain solutions based on Hyperledger Fabric and Digital Asset platform.
2018-10-26 15:29 | |
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The cryptocurrency market is not regulated in India, and the Indian government does not consider crypto as a legal tender or investment. The Reserve Bank of India banned all banking channels to crypto entities in April this year.
2018-10-26 21:29 | |
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The Block has published a new report detailing where some of the world’s largest cryptocurrency firms house their holdings. The report specifically notes interesting trends happening with cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, whose financial practices have been the subject of controversy this year.
2018-10-26 20:54 | |
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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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The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), one of the largest banks in the Middle East, could be about to go live with Ripple’s xCurrent payment solution in the coming weeks. A source familiar with the matter told Crypto Briefing in an email exchange that NBK had been actively preparing for its first transaction using xCurrent, a cross-border settlement service.
2018-10-22 19:09 | |
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Swiss digital asset exchange Trade. io claims hackers have stolen nearly $8M million worth of cryptocurrency directly from its cold storage devices, which were supposedly kept under lock and key in a bank.
2018-10-22 18:11 | |
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It’s Moonday Morning! Time to serve up a hot, steaming pile of cryptocurrency news leftovers that we all missed over the weekend, but taste oh-so-good when you reheat them. On today’s menu: 1.
2018-10-22 12:21 | |
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Trading volumes on exchange-escrowed peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency trading platforms in India are rising rapidly amid the banking ban by the country’s central bank. “Indians are warming up to P2P in amazing ways,” the CEO of a local crypto exchange told news.
2018-10-21 02:05 | |
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Indian Bitcoin exchange Zebpay, which stopped its activity last month because of restrictive policies of the Central Bank of India, registered an office in Malta. The new exchange will offer services to residents of 20 EU countries.
2018-10-22 21:15 | |
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Bitfinex’ed, a long-time critic of Bitfinex and Tether LLC, a company that oversees the development of stablecoin Tether (USDT), has stated in an interview with Modern Consensus that the “pretend KYC/AML” system of Bitfinex is preventing the exchange from obtaining banking services.
2018-10-18 18:00 | |
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Zebpay, once India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is moving operations to Malta after having shut shop on its home turf last month. The exchange, which currently supports 20 cryptocurrencies, will serve users in 20 countries across Europe: Malta Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovenia Sweden Unfortunately, the exchange won’t be accessible to users in India.
2018-10-18 12:42 | |
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Indian regulators' clampdown on crypto firms is forcing exchange Unocoin to experiment with ATMs and stablecoins to continue receiving fiat deposits.
2018-10-19 10:00 | |
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Indian regulators' clampdown on crypto firms is forcing exchange Unocoin to experiment with ATMs and stablecoins to continue receiving fiat deposits.
2018-10-18 10:00 | |
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Zebpay is reportedly expanding its global presence after suspending cryptocurrency trading operations in India due to the banking ban imposed by the country’s central bank. According to information on its website, an entity has been set up to operate the Zebpay exchange in Malta to serve 20 countries.
2018-10-17 09:30 | |
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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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Bitfinex has restored the ability of customers to make fiat currency deposits. Details of its new deposit system remain shrouded in secrecy, however, with the exchange going to extraordinary lengths to conceal the identity of the bank(s) in question.
2018-10-17 20:50 | |
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Trading platforms are the bridge between old and new financial systems, and regulators can oversee them with existing laws, the president of the Dutch central bank has said.
2018-10-17 20:01 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex confirmed it has reopened fiat currency deposits for all users October 16th, while remaining secretive about changes in its banking relationships. ‘New, Improved And Increasingly Resilient’ In a blog post, the exchange, which on Thursday began restricting deposits for certain users, said it had finished implementing what it described as “a new, improved and increasingly resilient fiat depositing system.
2018-10-16 18:00 | |
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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 International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have weighed in on sovereign considerations and global implications of blockchain and other financial services technologies.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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India’s Crypto Exchange Unocoin Set To Launch The Country’s First Crypto ATM Despite India’s eagerness to accept blockchain technologies, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) passed norms to control banking relationships with local crypto exchanges in April.
2018-10-15 19:01 | |
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The crypto fever has grabbed curious Indian investors who have flocked to several homegrown and foreign exchanges to buy digital coins. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) took action on the unregulated assets and effectively dried up banking resources for cryptocurrency exchanges.
2018-10-14 23:39 | |
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The Kingdom of Bahrain is an island nation of the Middle East. Home to around 1. 23 million people and a very forward thinking population. Interestingly, Bahrain has a very powerful political position as a result of its location, therefore, cryptocurrency adoption in Bahrain could turn out to have a very significant impact.
2018-10-14 23:00 | |
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The digital currency ETF is a big part of the debate in a recent Bloomberg interview which had JP Morgan’s Asset Management Head of International ETFs, Bryson Lake on the panel. The interview looked at how JP Morgan believes in the latest mover advantage in terms of the digital currency market and ETFs.
2018-10-12 12:00 | |
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The leading partner with Ripple, Santander has now teamed up with SWIFT to go live in four countries including, Poland, the UK, Spain and Argentina. The banking giant will be using SWIFT’s Global Payments Innovation GPI technology for cross-border payments.
2018-10-12 11:30 | |
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Dukascopy Bank SA; one of Europe’s Biggest Forex Exchange, has decided to enter the crypto market by allowing trading of Ethereum CFDs, in what could be excellent news for the European Ethereum ecosystem.
2018-10-11 22:07 | |
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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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It has been a busy week for Singapore as it relates to cryptocurrency. The city-state is set open the first fiat-crypto exchange in Southeast Asia, while the financial regulator has vowed to help crypto companies set up local bank accounts, according to media reports.
2018-10-11 18:30 | |
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It only takes a few minutes for Bitcoin to lose $200 and that’s exactly was happened today. Not only has Bitcoin crashed earlier today but it took the whole market down with it including Ethereum, XRP, Monero, Stellar and so on.
2018-10-11 17:30 | |
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Digital currency businesses have seen several difficulties in securing banking services in the UK and now they have a new option. LBX has launched a new service which offers access to an account where customers can store, manage and transfer both their traditional currency and their holding of digital currency.
2018-10-11 13:30 | |
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'Sandboxed' crypto exchange Rain attempts to be the region's first exchange with central bank approval. Distrust and cultural challenges, however, mean it has a steep hill to climb.
2018-10-11 23:22 | |
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Dukascopy, the Swiss based bank and brokerage which focuses on foreign exchange as well as Contracts for Differences (CFDs) for stocks, commodities and other assets, has today announced they are. .
2018-10-10 17:16 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Quadrigacx has blamed an ongoing legal dispute over $21. 6 million worth of funds that were frozen by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in January for delays experienced by some of its customers when requesting fiat currency withdrawals.
2018-10-10 17:10 | |
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GMO Internet Group is working to launch a stablecoin by 2019. In an announcement released on Tuesday, October 9, 2018, the Japanese IT conglomerate said it is putting all gears in place to begin building its stablecoin, called the GMO Japanese Yen (GJY).
2018-10-10 02:10 | |
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QuadrigaCX is waiting on a judge's decision after the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce froze CA$28 million in multiple bank accounts.
2018-10-10 00:00 | |
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The noise that surrounds economic relations between the United States and China is amping up exponentially. You can thank the latest trade wars for that, as fresh tensions boil over between the two nations who are currently trading new tariffs on imports, with no shortage of ill will underpinning the moves.
2018-10-10 23:38 | |
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The latest crypto investment fund on the block is Dragonfly Ventures, a $100 million traditional venture fund investing only in crypto assets, managed by partners Alexander Pack from Bain Capital Ventures and Bo Feng, founding partner of Ceyuan Ventures.
2018-10-9 15:30 | |
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After a year in the Central Bank of Bahrain's regulatory sandbox, Rain Financial is gearing up to offer crypto on-ramps from all regional currencies.
2018-10-9 14:59 | |
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A Canadian banking cartel has allegedly frozen $28 million in customer funds belonging to Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. Vancouver-based exchange desk QuadrigaCX claims the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) locked the money and froze accounts belonging to its payment partner, Costodian, and its owner, Jose Reyes.
2018-10-9 12:59 | |
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The partnership between Kite AI and OKX Wallet is aimed at advancing innovation in the AI-led payment market with cutting-edge financial tools.
The partnership endeavors to offer a seamless Web3 consumer experience apart from offering rewards for participation in token swaps through the DEX of OKX.
OKX has rolled out direct DEX trading within its app, allowing U.S. and international users to access tokens on Solana, Base, and X Layer.
According to OKX Wallet, the partnership with FLock.io underscores another chapter in the evolution of the merger between blockchain and AI.
Arkham ranked the U.S. Government eighth among the world's largest crypto holders on Nov. 6, crediting recent asset seizures. The post U.S. Government Now Ranks Among Top 10 Crypto Holders Globally appeared first on Coinspeaker.
Ethereum treasury company SharpLink Gaming has reportedly transferred over $14 million worth of ETH to crypto exchange OKX ahead of its quarterly earnings call due next week. A wallet associated with SharpLink Gaming transferred a total of 5,284 ETH and…
OKX's X Layer will leverage Chainlink's cross-chain services to connect traditional finance with DeFi.