11/01/2021
Matt Damon becomes latest celebrity to endorse cryptocurrency
Although being introduced to many newcomers for the first time through the advert, Crypto.com has been around since 2016, and has more than 10 million customers.
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11/01/2021
Emerald Technology Ventures Adopts Private Equity Servicing with Broadridge Blockchain Solution
Broadridge Private Market Hub to provide Emerald and Northern Trust greater transparency and efficiency in managing the private equity fund lifecycle
11/01/2021
Crypto Venue Plans to Tackle Europe with Swiss Presence
It said it will locate its Bitmiex Link digital asset trading service here as part of an effort to grow regionally.
11/01/2021
Hatten Land forms joint venture with Singapore fintech
Hatten Land has proposed to issue 20 million new ordinary shares at S$0.06 per share to Golden Summit International Ltd
10/29/2021
Citigroup, Starling chiefs urge caution over the UK’s plans for Britcoin
Anne Boden, chief executive of challenger bank Starling, said that if it is not planned correctly, a CBDC could seriously harm the retail banking industry’s business models.
10/28/2021
Crypto will not destroy traditional banks, says Saudi Central Bank governor
Traditional banking systems will not face 'destruction' by digital currencies, but rather an expansion of centralised systems for regulating the tender will transpire, according to Fahad Al-Mubarak, governor of the Saudi Central Bank
10/28/2021
Option to Acquire 80% stake in Gibraltar Stock Exchange
This will enable fiat debt and equity instruments to be bought with cryptocurrencies passing full AML requirements
10/28/2021
Report on “Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in the Financial Services Industry: A Regional Perspective and Strategies for Talent Development”
HKIMR Applied Research reports are released on topics that are highly relevant to market participants and regulators in Hong Kong, and they aim to provide insights on the long-term development strategy and direction of Hong Kong’s financial services
10/28/2021
FATF publishes guidance for regulation of cryptocurrency industry
The guidance provides relevant examples and potential solutions to implementation obstacles.
10/27/2021
Long-Time FinTech Veterans Launch Blockchain Orchestration Platform
The Cion Digital Blockchain Orchestration Platform is engineered to speed integration, provide optionality, prevent technical debt from get-go and remove friction from creating blockchain-based innovative real-time payment and financing.
10/27/2021
U.S. regulators exploring how banks could hold crypto assets - FDIC chairman
The rapid emergence of cryptocurrency has led to a murky regulatory picture in the United States.
10/26/2021
ECB invites tech experts to join CBDC debate
The talks will be held at expert level as closed sessions with members of the ECB’s digital euro project team.
10/26/2021
Art is drawing family offices — and me — into the crypto world
These are big numbers from often conservative managers of other people’s money.
10/26/2021
Insurtech Arturo joins AWS partner network
As an insurtech company that processes petabytes of data, Arturo has utilized AWS heavily since its founding.
10/26/2021
Fiserv partners Bakkt on crypto
The combination of expansive capabilities from Fiserv
10/26/2021
St Kitts and Nevis becomes leading nation in Caribbean for crypto-banking as market soars
The dual-island nation of St Kitts and Nevis has quickly become a leading nation in the Caribbean region for crypto-literate banking.
10/26/2021
Mastercard says any bank or merchant on its vast network can soon offer crypto services
Mastercard is preparing to announce that any of the thousands of banks and millions of merchants on its payments network can soon integrate crypto into their products, CNBC has learned.
10/25/2021
Seedify Taps Blockpass for KYC Provision in Blockchain Gaming & NFTs
Through Blockpass, users can create, store, and manage a data-secure digital identity that can be used for an entire ecosystem of services, token purchases and access to regulated industries.
10/25/2021
Top cryptocurrencies that can become Bitcoin of the future
Billed as the mother of all cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin which is a decentralised digital currency was created by someone called Satoshi Nakamoto (possibly a pseudonym) in 2009.
10/25/2021
Leading South African Bank Sends Account Cancellation Notices to Crypto Arbitrage Traders – Finance Bitcoin News
While acknowledging that Shiftly is not a client of the bank, de Villiers however suggests it is curious that Standard Bank — which once rejected his company’s attempt to open an account — maintains a business relationship with its rival