Crypto Bank Sues Fed Over 19 Months Delay In Processing Application

Custodia is a digital asset bank located in Wyoming and founded by former Morgan Stanley managing director Caitlin Long. The crypto bank filed a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, alleging a “patently unlawful delay” in processing an application for its master account.  Caitlin Long […]

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Cryptocurrencies vs. regulations: Which side will this coin fall

Shaun Tham, Legal Director of ChainUp shared his insights on the digital market during the Blockchain Fest 2022 this week. He acknowledged that businesses are being exposed to difficulties in this evoThe post Cryptocurrencies vs.

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Fireblocks Hires Former Bank of England Fintech Chief to Lead CBDC Efforts

Cryptocurrency custody firm Fireblocks hired Varun Paul, the former head of fintech at the Bank of England, as its first director of central bank digital currency (CBDC) and market infrastructure.

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Coinbase Forms Crypto Think Tank, Names Hermine Wong as Director

Coinbase Global (COIN) launched a a crypto-native think tank dubbed the Coinbase Institute to fuel ideas across the digital ecosystem on Wednesday.

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INX Taps Galaxy Digital Alum as Chief Financial Officer

Renata Szkoda previously served as finance director at the crypto financial services firm.

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UK’s FCA Hiring Crypto Director

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Tradesilvania Appoints Former FIU Romania Head of Supervision As New Risk & Regulatory Affairs Director

Premium cryptocurrency and digital asset investment platform Tradesilvania has announced the appointment of Mihaela Anamaria Dragoiu as its new Risk & Regulatory Affairs Director. Until now, Mihaela was the Head of Prevention, Supervision, and Control Directorate of FIU Romania (ONPCS).

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Creative Director of the NBA Cleveland Cavaliers, Daniel Arsham, mints his First NFT Collection on CXIP for Listing on Nifty Gateway

Daniel Arsham, the internationally acclaimed digital artist based in New York, has released his first-ever NFT collection, Eroding and Reforming Digital Sculptures: Cars, on the interoperable CXIP NFTs minting platform before listing on the Nifty Gateway, a premier NFT marketplace on December 22, 2021, at 7:00 pm EST.

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Amber Group November 2021 Recap

Regional Director of Europe Sophia Shluger attended Digital Asset Summit 2021 in London. Co-Founder Tony was invited to Crypto Unstacked Podcast to talk about the Loot Swag project. The post Amber Group November 2021 Recap appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Identifying promising crypto projects with startup mentor Roxana Nasoi

In this week’s Cryptonites interview, Managing Director at newly launched blockchain incubator Launchpool Labs, Roxana Nasoi, brings to the table over a decade-long experience in building companies in the digital economy space.

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Amber Group – October 2021 Recap

Sponsored London Digital Assets Week 2021 and Regional Director for Europe Sophia Shluger joined a panel discussion on the ‘Institutional Participation in Digital Asset Markets’. Regional Director for Europe Sophia Shluger was invited by Sidley Austin to join a webinar and share her outlook on what is next in virtual assets.

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Digital asset miner PrimeBlock names former Goldman Sachs executives as CEO and CLO

Prime Blockchain, a leading digital asset mining and infrastructure provider, has appointed former Goldman Sachs VP Gaurav Budhrani Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Alan Konevsky, former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, was appointed Chief Legal Officer (CLO).

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110 Countries Are Exploring CBDC At Some Stage, Says IMF Managing Director

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund(IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, recently talked about digital currencies, including CBDC, in one of her recent speeches. The IMF MD gave this speech at the T20 Summit hosted by Bocconi University and Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) on Oct.

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IMF managing director: 110 countries are 'at some stage' of CBDC development

Kristalina Georgieva said that stablecoins "fill the digital gap in privately issued money," but labeled Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as assets rather than a form of money.

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Centre Consortium Announces Former MIT Digital Credentials Architect Kim Hamilton Duffy as New Director of Identity and Standards

Centre, the consortium founded by Circle and Coinbase to provide standards and governance for USD Coin (USDC), which has become the world’s fastest-growing digital dollar...

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Westhill strengthens executive team with new senior appointments and a promotion

Westhill, the pioneering, fully digital managed repair company, is adding to its core leadership team with the appointment of Derek Glerum as Vice-President of Operations, and Jenna Kinsman as Senior Director of Insurance Sales. In...

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CFTC hits Kraken with $1.25M in fines over alleged illegal offering

“Margined, leveraged or financed digital asset trading offered to retail U.S. customers must occur on properly registered and regulated exchanges in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations,” said Vincent McGonagle, the CFTC’s acting director of enforcement.

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$10,000 Call Very Much A Possibility For Ethereum This Year, Magnetic’s Megan Kaspar Asserts

Digital assets management firm, Magnetic’s Managing Director Megan Kaspar has affirmed her earlier conviction that Ethereum will trade in the $8000-$10,000 range before December 31, 2021, a few months after she successfully predicted that the asset would hit $3000 when Ether was trading close to about $1,200 in January.

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UK Billionaire Simon Nixon to Upraise Investments in Crypto

British Billionaire and co-founder of MoneySupermarket. com, Simon Nixon, intends to increase his investments in cryptocurrencies as the world’s ultra-rich embrace digital assets. According to Adam Proctor, a managing director for Nixon’s London-based firm Seek Capital, the family office aims to advance its crypto allocation.

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Stock-To-Flow Market Signals A Great Time To Buy Bitcoin, Says Lex Moskovski

Bitcoin “A great buying opportunity,” says Lex Moskovski, investment director of Moskovski Capital. His tweet indicates the stock-to-flow model marking a historic moment in the twelve years of the digital coin’s life.

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Oscar Winner Spike Lee Directed Commercial About Bitcoin Says: “Digital Rebellion Is Here”

Acclaimed director Spike Lee has filmed and star in a commercial on Bitcoin for Coin Cloud, a company that manufactures kiosks to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies, the New York Times reported. The commercial was shot in June 2021, and it’s part of the company’s marketing efforts to boost crypto adoption. With several locations, which […]

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Elon Musk Forgets DOGE Is Merge-Mined with Litecoin When Slamming BTC and ETH: VanEck’s Digital Asset Director

Elon Musk praises DOGE transfer speed over BTC and ETH, forgetting Dogecoin is merge-mined with Litecoin whose transactions are also slow, VanEck’s Gabor Gurbacs says

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Nigerian secondary school will accept crypto payments despite regulatory uncertainty

"We believe one day digital money will gain more acceptance than paper money,” said school director Sabi’u Musa Haruna.

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CBDC Director, Tom Mutton, Makes Critical Statement About Digital Currencies

CBDC director, Tom Mutton, made some important statements supporting the Bank of England's view on digital currencies.

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The CBN Says Nigeria Will Have a Digital Currency Before End of Year

Nigeria is likely to have its own central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of the year, an official with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said. In his remarks following the bankers’ committee meeting, Rakiya Mohammed, who is the director of information technology at CBN, also revealed that this “digital currency would […]

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Digital yuan conceived to counter Alipay-like platforms, says former PBoC executive

Chinese "crypto dad" and ex PBoC director Yao Qian insists digital yuan is not a surveillance tool for the government.

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CBDC Can Be Set Up on Ethereum Network, Says Architect of Digital Yuan

Yao Qian, a former director of the PBOC's Digital Currency Research Institute, claims that a central bank digital currency can run on the Ethereum network

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Disney, LEGO Veteran Pierre Dadd Joins Terra Virtua (TVK) NFT Team

Terra Virtua (TVK), a digital collectibles platform, introduces Pierre Dadd as its new marketing director

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Why VanEck’s Gabor Gurbacs Wants Bitcoin Skeptics Quashed Out Of Wall Street

Gabor Gurbacs, the digital asset director at VanEck has opined that a good number of old Wall Street asset managers have missed out on opportunities that could’ve added more money to their AUM.

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WEF Summit: Digital Currencies are Empowering

Panelist Irene Arias, Chief Executive Officer at IDB Lab, discussed digital currencies and blockchain utilization in Latin America. Professor Long Chen, Director at Luohan Academy, spoke of his experience with digital payments in China.

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Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee Joins BTCS as New Independent Director

PRESS RELEASE. Silver Spring, MD – (Globe Newswire – April 5, 2021) – BTCS Inc. (OTCQB: BTCS) (“BTCS” or the “Company”), a digital asset and blockchain technology focused company, today announced the appointment of Litecoin creator Charlie Lee to its Board of Directors as its newest independent member.

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Regulatory Compliance in Full Focus as Digital Assets Reach Mainstream Adoption Globally

By Elaine Sun, Compliance Director of Huobi Technology The traditional financial infrastructure and the very idea of money are changing before our eyes. The concept of “store of value” has largely been tied to the physical, like gold, or faith-based systems backed by governments, like fiat currencies.

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Crypto Advocates Seek to Head Off US Digital Currency Regulations

The Blockchain Association, a leading blockchain and crypto trade organization, will be “mounting a charm offensive” with regulators of the new Biden administration, according to executive director Kristen Smith.

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Former TD Ameritrade Digital Assets Head Joins Fed Reserve as Chief Innovation Officer

Sunayna Tuteja has joined the Federal Reserve System as the Chief Innovation Officer. Before heading this position, Tuteja was previously working at TD Ameritrade as the Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets & DLT (Blockchain, Crypto), reads her LinkedIn profile.

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Here's why 'we will see $100K in Bitcoin before the year end'

The price of Bitcoin has been recording new ATHs this week and many have an opinion about how high the popular digital asset may rise this bull run. Former White House Director of Communications, AntThe post Here's why 'we will see $100K in Bitcoin before the year end' appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Fundstrat Global Execs Believe Ethereum May Spike By 800%

Ethereum seems to be experiencing a shift in sentiment from market participants who are becoming more bullish. DeFi Growth May Trigger the Rise of Ethereum According to Director of Digital Asset Strategy at Fundstrat Global Advisors, LLC, David Grider, the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem’s growing recognition will be instrumental in the astronomic price rises ahead.

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Galaxy Digital to Start Mining for Bitcoin on Its Own, Provide Financial Services to Miners

Fidelity's former director of mining, Amanda Fabiano, is leading the mining operations.

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Grayscale Names Michael Sonnenshein New CEO

Grayscale announced that Michael Sonnenshein is now the firm’s CEO, after spending just over three years as the firm’s managing director. The appointment follows the firm’s now-former CEO Barry Silbert’s move to lead Digital Currency Group, Grayscale’s parent company.

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Why Bitcoin Bull Market Shakeouts Are Healthy For Holders

At this point, no one can deny that Bitcoin has begun a new bull market. The 500% rally and new all-time high in 2020 is all the evidence that is needed. But that doesn’t mean that corrections won’t soon come, and according to VanEck’s digital asset director, Gabor Gurbacs even a +50% price drop will […]

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“Outrageous Demand” for Bitcoin & Crypto from Retirement IRAs

As we reported, Michael Sonnenshein, Managing Director of the Grayscale Investments, said the most extensive digital assets manager had seen inflows that “are now probably up 6x what they were last year.

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IMF leader on digital payments for skilled trades workers

The IMF's managing director lays out four pillars for the future of digital money as it relates to artisans.

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Spotify’s New Job Listing is Looking for Associate Director to Help with Internal Crypto Efforts

Spotify is mulling joining the cryptocurrency bandwagon. Spotify Contemplating Adding Support for Crypto Payments According to a report by The Block published on December 3, audio streaming giant Spotify is looking into hiring an associate director to lead a payments strategy team involved in its cryptocurrency and digital asset efforts.

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Ripple looks for a new director to convince central banks on XRP benefits

San Francisco startup Ripple is planning to bring its XRP Ledger to the central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) environment. As a result, a new job listing reveals that the company is looking to call in the services of a senior director of central bank engagements.

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Ripple seeks director to engage with central banks on digital currency

Ripple is looking to define its strategy regarding central bank digital currencies.

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SEC leader touts record on digital assets on his way out the door

The outgoing SEC director first joined the agency in 2017.

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University of Wyoming Launches Blockchain and Digital Innovation Center

The University of Wyoming is launching a new Center for Blockchain and Digital Innovation in an effort to train the upcoming workforce on a blockchain application.   According to Steven Lupien, an adjunct professor of finance and director of the new UW center, blockchain is going to fundamentally change the way businesses and consumers operate inRead MoreRead More.

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OCC’s Brian Brooks Against Government Issued Digital Dollar – Supports Regulation of Privately Issued Stablecoins

The acting director of the U. S. Office Comptroller of Currency (OCC) Brian Brooks says the creation of the U. S. digital dollar is a terrible one because the government is not good at building things.

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Homeland Security Calls On Freelancers to Design A Digital Wallet Interface; $25k to Finalists

According to the technical director of S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), Anil John, participants who get to the final stage are expected to demonstrate ‘ease of use and visual consistency, while supporting interoperability, security, and privacy.

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Libra Association Hires Former HSBC Europe Managing Director, James Emmett

In an announcement on Thursday, Libra Association announced James Emmett, former European head at HSBC as the new managing director of its subsidiary, Libra Networks LLC. Emmett will start his role at the digital stablecoin firm on October 1.

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