Posts published in November 2017

The Foreign Exchange Office (Office des Changes), the FX regulator in Morocco, today laid down stringent rules explicitly banning the use of cryptocurrency. In an…

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), Hong Kong’s paramount securities regulator, today fined HSBC Holdings Plc’s private-banking unit HK$400 million ($51 million) for engaging in…

Ripple has strengthened its executive team with two new appointments today, securing Benjamin Lawsky to its board in tandem with Ron Will as its CFO.…

FastMatch, Euronext’s electronic communications networks (ECN) for trading foreign exchange, is opening real time public access to key data. The company’s FX Tape feed, which…

Financial Commission, an independent self-regulatory compliance specialist for the financial services industry, today announced that it has approved Kappa brokers as the latest addition to…

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Clearing and Risk has issued a time-limited, no-action letter stating that it will not recommend that…

The GBP/USD currency pair today retraced some of its earlier gains made during the European session in the North American session as the US Dollar Index rallied higher. The currency pair had rallied…

Video streaming is becoming an increasingly important part of the way that the world consumes and creates media. It is estimated that video will comprise…

The local government of a Japanese village named Nishiawakura is considering a municipal ICO to raise funds in order to revitalize the region. Nishiawakura is…

This article was written by Yasin Ebrahim, financial expert.  Keeping up with the ever changing world of cryptocurrencies can be daunting for newcomers: the language used…