Plus500’s Co-Founder Alon GonenFresh on the back of a multi-million buyback announced last week, shares of the retail brokerage company, Plus500, are gradually continuing to…
Posts published in August 2019
Hong Kong’s SFC Signs MoU with ICAC to Fight Financial Crime
The (SFC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) this Monday in order to strengthen the cooperation between…
Silvergate Bank Planning to Offer Loans Against Crypto
Silvergate Bank, a US-based crypto-friendly lender, is considering to get more involved with digital assets as it is planning to offer fiat loans to institutional…
Gemina Tapps David Damato as its Chief Security Officer
Gemini Trust Company, LLC, , has managed to secure David Damato as its Chief Security Officer (CSO), the company announced this Monday. In this new…
Another week has passed on the cryptocurrency and forex markets. Banks in the United Kingdom reportedly cut ties with Coinbase and Plus500 revenues plummeted in…
Poloniex Continues Delisting Spree, Axes 23 Trading Pairs
Massachusetts-based and Circle-backed cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex announced it would be delisting 23 trading pairs effective today, citing low volume on the soon-to-be removed tokens. The…
FAS Russia Accuses Google of Breaching Investment Ads Rules
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service () has opened an investigation into Google over suspected infringements of the national Advertising Law, the competition authority said today. The…
Bakkt Secures CFTC Green Light to Launch Physical BTC Futures
Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler said that the ICE-backed startup has won approval from US regulators to offer physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts, a move that…
Cantor Fitzgerald and BMO Capital Pay $4.5M to Settle ADRs Case
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co and BMO Capital Markets on Friday agreed to pay $647,000 and $3.9 million respectively to settle claims that the broker dealers…
Coinbase Acquires Xapo’s Institutional Business for $55 Million
Coinbase Custody, the custodial wing of the US-based crypto exchange, on Friday announced that it acquired the institutional business of Xapo. Though the exchange did…