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One of the largest European crypto exchanges, a Vienna-based BitPanda, became one of the first foreign entities to receive a virtual assert service provider license in Norway. The announcement came on the company’s official X (former Twitter) account on Oct. 19. BitPanda holds a license in a number of European jurisdictions,
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The United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is strengthening its presence in Europe and has officially announced Ireland as its chosen main European crypto hub.Coinbase has selected Ireland as its EU entity location of compliance with Europe’s major cryptocurrency regulatory framework known as Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), the firm announced
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Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week.In this week’s newsletter, European securities regulators have published a report on the DeFi ecosystem that lists the risks it poses to the
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Xapo is also expected to expand beyond its Bitcoin-only by allowing customers to trade Ether as well. Crypto-friendly bank Xapo has been granted a securities broker license that allows it to offer its European clients the ability to trade S&P 500 stocks like Apple along with its crypto asset management offering.
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The stock market in Asia and Europe had a contrasting day where a majority of the stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region climbed across the board, while European markets had a mixed day. While South Korea’s bullish rally drove Asian markets, European shares faced downward pressure from underperforming luxury stocks.South Korea
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Starting out with a wallet, a cold-storage custody vault and a reserve of 30,000 bitcoin (BTC) back in 2013, Xapo later set up in Gibraltar under its virtual asset service provider (VASP) framework. Since beginning the process in 2019, Xapo has been granted a banking license, obtained principal membership with
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Oct. 10 saw major Asian and European stocks surge higher owing to a wave of risk appetite.Another major factor that played a key role in the bullish resurgence of European and Asian stocks was the United States Federal Reserve’s optimistic outlook on bond yields.U.S. Treasury yields fell sharply on Tuesday,
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Bitstamp has gotten a lot of interest in Europe for the exchange’s relatively new Bitstamp-as-a-service offering, a white-label licensing and technology combo designed to help banks and fintech firms offer crypto buying and selling, said Robert Zagotta, the Luxembourg-based company’s global chief commercial officer and CEO of its U.S. division. Source
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A digital euro would “reinforce the ability to pay with public money throughout Europe with a technology and infrastructure that is based in Europe,” he told members of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, promising offline functionality, accessibility and “excellent solutions” to protect privacy. Original Source
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In a strategic move to bolster its European expansion, cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced its intention to acquire Coin Meester B.V. (BCM), a Netherlands-based digital asset broker. The planned acquisition follows the recent implementation of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory framework, which governs the operations of crypto
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