The France-based cryptocurrency-storing hardware wallet manufacturing firm Ledger has raised $75 million (61 million euroד) in a Series B funding round. The round was led…
Posts published in January 2018
Euro Consolidates Gains Against US Dollar on Mixed US Data
The euro today consolidated gains made against the US dollar after the release of mixed data from the US docket in the early North American session. The euro declined against the greenback during the Asian…
The UK sister company of Turkish brokerage firm Destek Yatirim is considering its options for continuing business in the UK. The company gained only about…
Study Shows that Bitcoin and Ethereum Are “Very Centralized”
A study by Hacking, Distributed says that Bitcoin and Ethereum are “very centralized”. The peer-reviewed study, entitled “Decentralization in Bitcoin and Ethereum”, is written according…
In October 2017, ASIC released (Info Sheet 226) which included fields pertaining to client monies held with brokers as per the . This caused confusion…
Taiwan’s Semiconductor Giant Set to Make Profits from Crypto Mining
In the last couple of decades, the demand for processors has increased drastically – first with computers and then smartphones. But now this hunger for…
Euronext Acquires InsiderLog for €5.8 million
Euronext has announced that it has officially acquired a majority share of InsiderLog, in exchange for €5.8 million and an additional “earn-out payment”, to be…
VISA CEO Does Not Consider Bitcoin to Be a “Payment System”
From the inception of the crypto economy, the established banking and payment giants have been hostile towards the new market, and this hostility grew as…
Weighing the Challenges and Potential of the Chinese Market in 2018
An increasingly competitive foreign exchange (FX) industry has seen brokers looking towards new regions with China remaining as one of the most promising long-term options.…
Choi Heung-sik, the head of the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea, responded in the affirmative when asked if employees of the financial regulator had…