Line, a Japanese messaging application, announced plans to form a new bank with this Tuesday. The company also said that it will be partnering with…
Posts published in November 2018
FCA Has Investigated Fifty Cryptocurrency Firms in 2018 So Far
The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK’s financial watchdog, has inspected twice as many cryptocurrency-related businesses than it had in May, according to the Daily Telegraph.…
Crypto Companies Won’t Escape the Law by Going Offshore
The. Bitcoin is lower than it has been in over a year, and bearish analysts and snooty relatives alike are saying, “I told you so.”…
NZ Dollar Advances Despite Worse-Than-Expected Trade Balance
The New Zealand dollar rose today despite New Zealand’s trade balance, which was released overnight, missed expectations. Statistics New Zealand reported that the trade balance deficit was…
BlackRock Inc Names Geraldine Buckingham as Head of APAC
BlackRock Inc, an , announced a change to its leadership team this Monday. Geraldine Buckingham, who is currently the corporate strategy chief, will take on…
Coincheck Resumes Deposits and Purchases for XRP and FCT
Coincheck Inc, a subsidiary of the Japanese financial services giant , announced this Monday that it has added two further cryptocurrencies to its digital asset…
Ohio Becomes First US State to Accept Bitcoin for Taxes
Starting from today, businesses in the US state of Ohio can now pay their taxes using Bitcoin (), marking the first state within the nation…
AMF Criticizes Tobacconists’ Bitcoin Scheme
A French financial technology (fintech) company was criticized by local regulators this Monday for trying to sell cryptocurrency through tobacconists. The (AMF) said in a…
BCS Launches Prime Platform for Russian Capital Markets
BCS Global Markets, on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), announced this Monday that it has launched a new trading product which will give professional and institutional…
Blind Optimism, or Hard Realism – What Does 2019 Hold for Bitcoin?
At the beginning of 2018, plenty of that 2018 would hold Bitcoin’s really big boom, a skyrocket in valuation that would make the 2017 rise…