The cryptocurrency market is growing day-by-day, and this exponential growth has attracted the attention of the world’s largest banks too. Many mainstream businesses are trying…
Posts published in December 2017
Admiral Markets Aims to Raise €5 million via Bond Sale
Estonian brokerage Admiral Markets AS has announced that it is preparing a bond issuance. The company will place a public offering of unsecured subordinated bonds…
Surge in Bitcoin Demand Causing South Korea to Rethink its ICO Ban
Bitcoin is on a crazy ride this week. In the last 24 hours alone, the coin gained more than $2000 and reached $15,200 at the…
MiFIR Reporting for STP Brokers – One Transaction Report or Two?
One of the ways that MiFID II is seeking to improve transparency in the financial markets is to require disclosure of the trading capacity of…
On December 6th, @Lightning Tweeted that the Lightning Network had been used to make two small purchases: Announcing the first-ever interoperable Lightning transactions using…
Singapore’s First Crypto-Related Legal Battle Heads to Trial
In what very well may later be viewed as a historic moment in Singapore’s relationship with cryptocurrency, the country’s first Bitcoin-related legal dispute will soon…
CFTC Data Shows US Retail FX Deposits Continue to Grow, But Slowly
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published its anticipated monthly report for October 2017, which covers data for FCMs that are registered as Retail…
Foreign exchange and CFDs brokerage FXCM Group has just reported its operating statistics for the month ending November 2017, which were able to recover off…
Not long after several cryptocurrency exchanges reported various security breaches, a hacker has targeted the mining pool service NiceHash and managed to steal around $60…
NFA Swells Futures, Options Fees to $0.02 for Each Trade Side
The U.S. National Futures Association (NFA) said on Wednesday it would hike its fees as the coffers of the agency that regulates the futures and…