Posts published in January 2018

The Israeli Securities Authority, the financial regulatory authority of Israel, today proposed an amendment to Israeli law which would temporarily limit the ability of cryptocurrency-related…

NEX Markets released its latest monthly volume data. During the month of December, average daily trading volume (ADTV) of the Spot FX unit reached $65.5…

The Japanese yen fell against its most-traded peers during the current trading session despite the solid manufacturing report, which showed that the expansion of the sector was the fastest in several years. The headline…

The Australian dollar was mixed on Thursday despite very positive macroeconomic data, both from Australia and abroad. News from China was especially good as the services sector was expanding with…

As a new year’s gift to the blockchain community, Vitalik Buterin, in his first blog post of 2018, announced two subsidised programs for research and…

It was widely reported yesterday that the Chinese government was planning to crack down on cryptocurrency mining, in what could have been the final death…

The Tokyo Financial Exchange has reported its December 2017 trading numbers, ending the year on a down note. The data pertains to foreign exchange and…

The EUR/USD currency pair today made a subdued recovery during the early European session after the release of positive Eurozone PMI data. The final December PMIs released by Markit Economics were the main…

In December, we reported when President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela announced the intention of the government to launch a national cryptocurrency, ‘El Petro’, . Now,…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has published its monthly report for November 2017, covering data for all FCMs registered as Retail Foreign Exchange Dealers…